Bitcoin’s Identity Crisis: Can It Truly Become a Digital Store of Value?
As we move deeper into 2025, many people are wondering: “Why does it feel like everything’s getting more expensive — even though wages are supposed to be recovering?” The truth is, while the economy is showing pockets of strength, rising costs and shifting monetary...
How Students Can Earn a Degree With Minimal or No Debt
As tuition continues climbing faster than inflation, many students are rethinking the traditional path to a four-year degree. Rising costs are forcing families to look for creative, strategic ways to limit borrowing — and fortunately, there are more options than ever...
What to Do With Your Retirement Plan After Losing a Job
Job loss brings uncertainty, but one financial decision often gets pushed aside: what to do with the retirement money left behind in your former employer’s plan. That account may be one of your largest assets, and handling it wisely can protect your long-term...
Why More Borrowers Could Soon See Smaller Student Loan Payments
With living costs rising faster than many households can adjust, policymakers are searching for ways to lighten financial strain — and student borrowers may soon see relief. A series of updates to repayment rules could broaden who qualifies for lower monthly payments,...
Understanding the Proposed Child Savings Incentive: What Parents Should Know
As we move deeper into 2025, many people are wondering: “Why does it feel like everything’s getting more expensive — even though wages are supposed to be recovering?” The truth is, while the economy is showing pockets of strength, rising costs and shifting monetary...
Why Americans Are Feeling the Pinch — And What You Can Do About It
2025 isn’t a return to “pre-pandemic normal.” Instead, we’re in a transition: a time where rising costs, economic uncertainty, and shifting global conditions demand both vigilance and adaptability.
- I spent a decade selling homes to the ultra-wealthy. What I saw explains the housing market’s nepo problemby Blake O'Shaughnessy on May 3, 2026 at 11:30 am
The most important thing I learned selling real estate to the top 1% for 10 years wasn't about properties — it was about the parents in the room.
- America got rich and got sad. A top economist says 2020 broke something that hasn’t healedby Nick Lichtenberg on May 3, 2026 at 11:00 am
It's not a mystery why everyone got sad in 2020. What is: the fact they never recovered. Sam Peltzman sees a "segregated happiness society."
- The US is in a league of its own when it comes to its debt burden, as rating agencies bemoan ‘long-running deterioration’ in fiscal governanceby Tristan Bove on May 3, 2026 at 10:13 am
America's debt just surpassed the size of its entire economy. That could mean higher mortgage rates, costlier loans, and government spending ever more squeezed.
- Trump wants to cut federal loans from college programs that don’t pay off. College cosmetology, fine arts, and music programs are at riskby Preston Fore on May 3, 2026 at 9:49 am
As student debt surpasses $1.7 trillion, a Trump-backed rule would strip federal aid from degree and certificate programs with weak earnings outcomes.
- A $20B battleship the U.S. abandoned after WWII is back in Trump’s $1.5T defense budget. Experts say modern missiles will easily destroy itby Jake Angelo on May 3, 2026 at 9:28 am
President Trump's record defense budget includes a new class of battleships not seen since WWII.
- Fed whisperer splits on Powell: A+ as steward, but ‘I don’t think you could give him high marks on the economy’by Eva Roytburg on May 3, 2026 at 9:00 am
"I think they made a lot of mistakes under his leadership, on the economics and the monetary policy."
- Eventbrite CEO sold her company for $500 million—without a job for the first time since 15, she’s playing chess with a robot and eyeing internshipsby Emma Burleigh on May 3, 2026 at 8:00 am
Julia Hartz, the cofounder and CEO of ticketing platform Eventbrite, made a $500 million exit and is now considering her next career move as a free agent.
- Zoom is giving away $150K to ‘solopreneurs’ with no strings attached—as 33 million workers ditch corporate to become their own bossby Orianna Rosa Royle on May 3, 2026 at 7:00 am
As AI kills the American dream of a stable job and a corner office, 33 million people are going solo—and Zoom is throwing $150,000 behind the movement.
- Can the ‘blue economy’ deliver on its promise? Investors are starting see the ocean as an asset worth protectingby Natalie Sum Yue Chung on May 3, 2026 at 12:00 am
Investors, scientists, and leaders are no longer asking if the blue economy is real and instead figuring out how quickly they can scale it.
- Blackstone’s Steve Schwarzman built a program to teach young leaders about China. It’s harder to get into than Harvardby Shawn Tully on May 2, 2026 at 8:00 am
Inspired by the Rhodes Scholar program, Schwarzman's philanthropic initiative brings students in their early-to-mid-20s to spend a year immersed in understanding how China works.





