Daniel Harper
Daniel is a finance writer covering personal finance topics including budgeting, credit, and beginner investing. He began his career contributing to his Substack, where he covered consumer finance trends and practical money topics for everyday readers. Since then, he has written for a range of personal finance blogs and fintech platforms, focusing on clear, straightforward content that helps readers make more informed financial decisions.
Latest Articles by Daniel Harper
Android users may get cash from Google’s $135M data privacy settlement
Millions of people who carried an Android phone between 2014 and 2019 could be in line for a direct cash payment from Google. A class-action...
Domino’s misses U.S. sales estimates as diners cut back on spending
Domino’s Pizza Inc. posted U.S. same-store sales growth of just 0.4% in the first quarter of 2026, badly missing the 1.5% gain Wall Street had...
Trump health plan shifts aid from insurance subsidies to direct pay
Right now, roughly 21 million Americans have signed up for health coverage through the Affordable Care Act marketplace, though the number with active, effectuated coverage...
Microsoft and OpenAI drop exclusivity, opening talks with rivals
OpenAI’s most powerful AI models were, for years, available in exactly one place: Microsoft’s Azure cloud. That era is over. The two companies have formally...
Companies jockey for a share of the $50B federal rural health fund
Somewhere in rural Mississippi, a county with one clinic and no broadband is now sitting on a share of the largest federal investment in rural...
Alphabet options imply a sharp post-earnings move for Google’s parent
Alphabet Inc. is days away from reporting first-quarter 2026 earnings, and the options market is already placing an unusually large bet on volatility. Straddle pricing...
Khaby Lame’s $975M deal hype fades after linked stock plunges 90%
When Rich Sparkle Holdings Ltd announced it was acquiring TikTok megastar Khaby Lame’s core company for $975 million in stock, the deal looked like a...
Kalshi, Polymarket target insider trading as Robin Hanson pushes back
On April 23, 2026, federal prosecutors and the Commodity Futures Trading Commission filed parallel cases against a single trader in Manhattan, marking the first time...
Apple CEO John Ternus faces China rebound—and rising political risks
John Ternus has spent most of his Apple career making hardware work. He oversaw the shift from Intel chips to Apple’s own silicon. He stood...
Critics slam Trump-era 401(k) rule shift as a win for Wall Street firms
The retirement savings of roughly 70 million American workers could soon look very different. A proposed federal rule would clear the way for private equity,...
Iran war accelerates clean-energy buying, boosting China’s exporters
Iran war accelerates clean-energy buying, boosting China’s exporters In early March 2026, as naval skirmishes near the Strait of Hormuz sent tanker insurance premiums to...
Auto repair scams explode as tax refund drivers get slammed with surprise fees
A driver walks into a dealership expecting to pay the price on the window sticker. She leaves paying $2,000 more. That is not a hypothetical....
U.S. companies post broad profit surge beyond tech and Wall Street
The companies that built America’s profit recovery were supposed to be familiar names: chipmakers riding the artificial-intelligence wave, megabanks harvesting trading fees, a handful of...
Talk of freezing 5.6M dormant bitcoin sparks fears of sharp repricing
Roughly 5.6 million bitcoin, according to on-chain data tracked by firms like Chainalysis and Glassnode, have not moved in more than a decade. At current...
Airlines push to keep fares high even as jet fuel prices drop
A round-trip flight from Chicago to Miami cost roughly $340 in March 2026, according to booking aggregators tracking domestic routes. A year earlier, the same...
Report: Americans are canceling streaming subscriptions as costs rise
A household subscribing to Netflix, Disney+, Max, and Peacock now pays north of $55 a month before taxes, more than many basic cable packages cost...