When Spirit Airlines' yellow Airbus fleet went dark at 3:00 a.m. Eastern on May 2, stranding passengers and dissolving 17,000 jobs, the immediate culprits were obvious. A doubled jet fuel bill traceable to the…
A round-trip ticket from Las Vegas to Dallas-Fort Worth cost $39 on Spirit Airlines the morning of May 1. By the afternoon of May 3, that same itinerary on the next-cheapest carrier was selling…
In 1997, Ted Turner’s advisors told him the United Nations could not legally accept private donations. He gave them forty-eight hours to find a way around it. Then he wrote the UN a check…
In 2007, Apple opened the smartphone era. In 2026, Apple (NASDAQ:AAPL) is positioned to close it. The handheld glass slab that reshaped computing is now the device the industry is racing to replace with…
The Department of Justice’s 2025 healthcare fraud takedown charged 324 defendants with $14.6 billion in losses — more than double the $6 billion record set one year earlier. For Medicare beneficiaries, it is increasingly…
The most consequential decision in the final week of Spirit Airlines’ 34-year history was not made in a White House briefing room or at a Department of Transportation hearing. It was made in a…
Spirit Airlines flight NK1833 touched down at Dallas-Fort Worth shortly after midnight on May 2, 2026. By 3 a.m., 17,000 employees were learning from internal memos and social-media posts that they no longer had…
The U.S. Navy fired interceptors at inbound Iranian cruise missiles in the Strait of Hormuz yesterday morning. Those interceptors were almost certainly built by Raytheon. CENTCOM commander Adm. Brad Cooper said Iran fired cruise…
Words like “wealthy,” “rich,” and “upper class” get tossed around interchangeably, but in retirement planning they carry very different weight. Each describes a distinct slice of the U.S. wealth distribution, and the dollar gap…
When Centene Corporation reported its first-quarter results in late April, the numbers told two stories that seemed impossible to reconcile. The St. Louis-based insurer had hemorrhaged customers, watching its Affordable Care Act marketplace membership…
If your electricity bill jumped this year, you’re not imagining it. The driver is the server racks humming inside warehouses going up across Virginia, Texas, Ohio, and Arizona, more than summer heat or aging…
Markets hate uncertainty. But they have a remarkably consistent way of handling it. Since 1950, the S&P 500 has not posted a single negative one-year return in the 12 months following a midterm election.…
Few issues unite voters across party lines like housing. According to a Harvard CAPS/Harris poll from earlier this year, roughly 8 in 10 Americans say they support banning Wall Street firms and large institutional…
Your retirement check is about to get squeezed by a Fed civil war you did not vote for. The cost of that fight is showing up in your bond fund, your CD ladder, and…
California's 2026 Billionaire Tax Act (Initiative No. 25-0024) is a citizen-led ballot measure, sponsored by SEIU-United Healthcare Workers West, that proposes a one-time 5% excise tax on the global net worth of individuals exceeding…
Speaking to a crowd of retirees at The Villages in Florida on Friday, President Donald Trump made a candid concession about the war he launched against Iran on February 28. He told them he…
The pitch was simple: buy the ticker, ride the brand. Two years after Trump Media & Technology Group (NASDAQ:DJT) went public in March 2024 via a merger with Digital World Acquisition Corp, the math…
Open enrollment season is forcing a hard rethink for retirees this year. Medicare Advantage now covers 55% of eligible Medicare beneficiaries with roughly 35 million subscribers, but the 2026 plan year looks different from…
Your Social Security check stretches less far this April than the headline tax cut promised. The reason is a quiet swap happening between two government buckets, and most retirees never see the second one.…
Your 65th birthday is a financial checkpoint. Medicare eligibility kicks in, senior discounts become available, and a stack of pre-retirement expenses stop making sense. Most retirees don’t realize how fast those costs compound on…
