Personal Finance

Personal Finance

Holiday Shoppers Brace for 2026 Payments on Record BNPL Loans

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Brace for the bill: Shoppers put $10 billion worth of purchases on buy now, pay later plans in November and $1 billion just on Cyber Monday.

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Personal Finance

Lagging 401(k) Balances Give Gen Xers Retirement FOMO

The group born from roughly 1965 to 1980, Gen Xers are the test subjects in America’s experiment of replacing pensions with 401(k) plans.

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Finance

Women Will Soon Control More Money Than Ever. Is Wall Street Ready?

Women are the big winners in the great wealth transfer, and the status quo isn’t what they want from wealth managers.

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Personal Finance

Bigger Social Security Checks Top 2026 Changes in Retirement Benefits

Here’s what changes to Social Security payouts, tax deductions and Medicare premiums mean for retirees’ cash flow in 2026.

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Financial Planning

Worried You Don’t Have Enough Money to Retire? New Rules in ’26 Make It Easier to Catch Up

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Many of the new retirement account rules that take effect in 2026 can simplify building up the savings necessary to live the life you want.

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Personal Finance

Ripped Job Market Swipes Left on New Grads

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For the first time in decades, recent college grads have a higher unemployment rate than the rest of the economy.

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Personal Finance

After a Pandemic High, Consumers are Coming Down with No Buy 2025

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It’s the new sensation that’s sweeping the nation, and it doesn’t cost you a penny. Frugal consumers are giving up non-essential purchases.

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Personal Finance

In Billionaire League Tables, US Keeps the Gold

The US is home to around 905,000, or nearly 37%, of the world’s population of individuals with a net worth of at least $10 million.

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Personal Finance

Share of Consumer Debt in Delinquency Tracks the Highest in Almost Five Years

It should be said that the top line news from Thursday’s report was, as Larry David would say, “pretty, pretty good.”

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Healthcare

Let’s Navigate the American Health Care System

Americans make about 150 million trips to emergency departments each year. Their bank accounts wish they made far fewer.

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