After nearly a year of “weeks away” predictions, the CLARITY Act—the bill that would permanently make XRP a digital commodity—is finally moving. The Senate Banking Committee has scheduled the markup for Thursday, May 14…
When choosing a college with your children, the biggest hope has always been to send them to an Ivy League institution. With names like Harvard, Brown, Princeton, Yale, and Princeton, you have every hope…
Most Americans will make one of the most consequential financial decisions of their lives without understanding the rules governing it. That is not a prediction. It is what the Nationwide Retirement Institute’s 2025 Social…
A full-time federal minimum wage worker in the United States earns $7.25 an hour, or about $15,080 a year before taxes, working 40 hours a week for 52 weeks. The question for anyone with…
Goldman Sachs (NYSE:GS | GS Price Prediction) and its latest retirement survey quantified something millions of households already feel: 67% of working Americans say too many monthly financial expenses are hurting their ability to…
The ALPS REIT Dividend Dogs ETF (NASDAQ:RDOG) is a concentrated bet that the highest-yielding real estate trusts in each property sub-sector deserve a spot in your income portfolio. RDOG currently throws off a 6.3%…
Five thousand dollars a month in dividend income is the level at which a paycheck stops being mandatory. $60,000 a year sits right around the median earnings for full-time, year-round workers in the US,…
Mortgage originations in the fourth quarter of 2025 appeared resilient on the surface. Lenders pushed out $524 billion in new home loans, a modest step up from the $512 billion originated in the prior…
The Nationwide Retirement Institute’s 2025 Social Security Survey does not bury the tax finding. It surfaces immediately, and the data behind it is consistent across every demographic group the survey examined. Six in ten…
Most people who bought Bitcoin (CRYPTO: BTC) in the last year are currently underwater and the mood around the market is cautious. The Bitcoin price is hovering above $80,000 today, but BTC is still…
If you are a retirement-focused investor staring at Arm Holdings (NASDAQ:ARM | ARM Price Prediction) and Intel (NASDAQ:INTC) after both stocks have torn higher, the question is simple: Which one belongs in a portfolio…
Andreessen Horowitz closed its fifth crypto fund with a thesis that sounds like science fiction: autonomous AI agents holding crypto wallets, earning income, paying for compute and operating as independent economic actors within five…
A 64-year-old single retiree with $1.5 million in a traditional 401(k) looks at the balance with quiet satisfaction. Then a fee-only planner runs the projection. By age 73, when required minimum distributions kick in,…
Ford (NYSE: F | F Price Prediction) CEO Jim Farley has signaled the company’s direction: “We need to do a great job as a brand, and as an industry, to make our vehicles more…
At 65 with $1.9 million saved, this retiree's biggest risk may not be losing money in the stock market. It may be trying too hard not to. After decades of work and disciplined saving,…
