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Trump’s energy secretary says gas won’t drop below $3 a gallon until 2027 — here’s what $4+ gas costs the average family per year
Energy Secretary Chris Wright told CNN in mid-April that Americans should not expect gasoline to fall below $3 a gallon until 2027, a timeline first...
Tariffs are about to hit your grocery bill hard — beef up 15%, canned goods up 15%, coffee still surging
The receipt at checkout keeps getting bigger without the cart getting any fuller. A pound of ground beef now runs roughly 15% more than it...
Sun Belt home prices are collapsing while Rust Belt prices soar — the 2026 housing market nobody predicted
For years, home prices in the Sun Belt region (consisting of southern states, such as Texas, Louisiana, and Florida) have risen relative to home prices...
Rents just fell behind inflation for the first time — here’s where renters have the most leverage in 2026
Across a band of Sun Belt cities (i.e., cities in southern states such as Texas or Florida) that spent the past few years building apartments...
U.S. credit card debt crosses $1.33 trillion — average balance now $6,580 per person
A $6,580 credit card balance can take years to fully pay off when the minimum payment barely covers last month’s interest. That is the situation...
No, the Nasdaq’s 13-day win streak doesn’t mean it’s time to buy — here’s what history actually shows
The Nasdaq Composite rose for 13 consecutive trading sessions ending April 29, 2026, its longest winning streak since January 1992. Within hours of the milestone,...
Senate Finance probes $370M tax break Trump IRS gave Cheniere Energy for classifying LNG tankers as “motorboats”
A liquefied natural gas (LNG) tanker stretches roughly 1,000 feet from bow to stern. For context, under federal shipping regulations, a motorboat stretches about 65...
Should you tap your home equity right now? Here’s how to decide without regret
A homeowner who bought a modest three-bedroom house in 2019 might open a mortgage statement today and see something startling: six figures of equity that...
ACA health insurance premiums are up 26% this year — and Ozempic is one of the reasons why
A record 23.1 million Americans signed up for Affordable Care Act (ACA) marketplace coverage during the most recent open enrollment period, according to the Centers...
Average tax refund hits $3,462, up 11% — the biggest jump in years
Tens of millions of Americans are finding noticeably fatter deposits in their bank accounts this spring. Through the week ending March 20, 2026, the average...
The ‘affordability economy’ is flipping the housing map: Sun Belt prices collapsing, Rust Belt soaring
For most of the last decade, the housing market had a simple rule: follow the sun. Buyers, builders, and investors poured money into Sun Belt...
Netflix stock drops 9% after Reed Hastings exits and Q2 forecast disappoints
Reed Hastings, the co-founder who built Netflix from a DVD-by-mail experiment into the world’s largest streaming service, is leaving the company’s board of directors. The...
Snap lays off 1,000 — CEO Spiegel explicitly says AI is replacing “repetitive work”
Snap eliminated roughly 1,000 jobs this week, and CEO Evan Spiegel did something most tech executives have carefully avoided: he told his own workforce, in...
Home price growth slows to 1.1% nationally — slowest since 2012; Sun Belt crashes while Rust Belt surges
A homeowner in Cape Coral, Florida who closed on a house in 2022 has likely lost a significant chunk of equity since then. Based on...
22 million overtime-deduction claims flood the IRS — 5-8 million above expectations
When the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) opened the 2026 filing season, roughly 22 million workers claimed the new “no tax on overtime” deduction by the...
Average tax refund hits $3,462 in 2026, up 11% from last year
The average federal tax refund this spring is $3,462, roughly $346 more than this time last year, and the gap has held steady for weeks....