For decades, financial security followed a familiar script: stable job, homeownership, retirement account, upward mobility. It was linear and asset based.
Younger Americans are rewriting...
Financial stress used to feel episodic. A job loss. A medical bill. A recession.
Today, for many households, it feels ambient.
Not acute enough to trigger...
Housing rarely collapses all at once. It tightens gradually.
A few years ago, the conversation centered on bidding wars and surging prices. Today, the tone...
The headlines focus on rising premiums. The quieter story is availability.
Across parts of the country, households are discovering that the bigger problem isn’t just...
For decades, switching service providers, whether for insurance, banking, internet, wireless service, or utilities, was treated as an annoyance rather than a financial plan....
For months, analysts have speculated that the worst of the mortgage rate volatility is behind us. Rates have inched down from their pandemic-era spike,...
By nearly every traditional measure, the American consumer entered 2025 looking resilient. Employment remains historically strong. Wage growth, while moderating, has outpaced pre-pandemic norms....
For decades, insurance has quietly served as the financial shock absorber of American life. Hurricanes, floods, droughts, and wildfires insurers paid, rates rose modestly,...
When Americans talk about healthcare costs, insurance premiums usually take center stage. Deductibles climb. Networks shrink. Employer plans grow more restrictive. And the frustration...
