The Money Overview

Insurance & Protection

ACA health insurance premiums jumped 26% in 2026 — the largest increase since 2018 — driven partly by Ozempic costs

When open enrollment ended earlier this year, 23.1 million Americans had signed up for health coverage through the Affordable Care Act marketplace, near the all-time record. Many of them are now opening monthly bills that look nothing like last year’s. A 40-year-old earning $50,000 who bought a benchmark silver plan in 2025 may have paid […]

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Insurance & Protection

ACA health insurance premiums jumped 26% in 2026 — the largest increase since 2018 — driven partly by Ozempic costs

When open enrollment ended earlier this year, 23.1 million Americans had signed up for health coverage through the Affordable Care Act marketplace, near the all-time record. Many of them are now opening monthly bills that look nothing like last year’s. A 40-year-old earning $50,000 who bought a benchmark silver plan in 2025 may have paid […]

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Banking & Credit Cards

Loans & Lending

The Class of 2026 is graduating into the worst student loan landscape in a decade — fewer options, stricter rules, and no more SAVE plan

Run the numbers on a $35,000 federal student loan balance through the Federal Student Aid Loan Simulator, and the gap is stark. Under the SAVE...

Fraud & Scams

A personal assistant forged checks for 7 years to steal $10 million from a retired Wall Street banker — and spent it at Gucci and Cartier

Catalina Corona was hired to make life easier for an elderly couple in New York. Multiple news outlets, including the New York Post, have described...

Fraud & Scams

Americans lost a record $15.9 billion to scams in 2025 — and half of it was crypto fraud

A retired teacher in Ohio watches $340,000 vanish into a fake crypto trading platform. A young professional in Texas loses $50,000 after a months-long romance...

Loans & Lending

The SAVE student loan plan is officially dead — 7.5 million borrowers have until October to pick a new repayment plan

Millions of federal student loan borrowers who once had some of the lowest monthly payments available are now navigating a repayment system that looks very...

Fraud & Scams

AI can now clone your voice from 3 seconds of audio — the FBI says deepfake financial scams are surging in 2026

The voice on the phone belongs to your daughter. At least, that is what your brain tells you. She says she has been in a...

Credit Cards & Rewards

Credit card annual fees are soaring past $800 — and people keep paying them even as perks shrink

The annual fee on the American Express Platinum Card has climbed three times since 2019, landing at $695 in 2023. Each time, cardholders complained online,...

Retirement & Taxes