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
Buffett explains Berkshire’s cash pile and warns on trend chasing
Warren Buffett spent six decades teaching investors that the hardest thing in markets is doing nothing. In his final shareholder letter before handing the CEO...
JPMorgan adds 400 Charlotte jobs with new 145,000-sq.-ft. SouthPark office
JPMorgan Chase is planting another flag in Charlotte. The nation’s largest bank by assets has leased 145,000 square feet of office space in SouthPark, a...
Warsh Fed outlook complicates rate path, raising risks for stocks
Kevin Warsh sat before the Senate Banking Committee in late April 2026 and said what Wall Street needed to hear: no one told him what...
Rhode Island finalizes multimillion-dollar Deloitte breach settlement
Rhode Island has finalized a $7 million settlement with Deloitte Consulting LLP over the December 2024 data breach that exposed the personal information of hundreds...
Amazon’s in-house chips land another big customer win
Amazon’s in-house chips land another big customer win Meta Platforms has agreed to run artificial intelligence workloads on Amazon Web Services infrastructure powered by Graviton,...
Social Security cuts loom, and Trump policy may speed the timeline
A retired teacher in Texas who spent 30 years in the classroom and just started collecting Social Security might soon face a choice she never...
Tech layoffs surge, leaving workers facing a tougher job market
Thousands of technology workers across the United States have lost their jobs since January 2026, and the job market waiting for them looks nothing like...
Tariff refunds near $166B put CEOs in a bind over price cuts
For five years, Americans paid more for washing machines, steel, auto parts, and thousands of other goods because of tariffs that a federal court has...
Iran war lifts plastic resin costs, pushing consumer prices higher
A standard yogurt cup contains roughly 10 grams of polypropylene. That sliver of plastic has never been cheaper to ignore and never been more useful...
U.S. won’t renew Iran and Russia oil waivers, Treasury’s Bessent says
The last legal lifeline for sanctioned Iranian and Russian oil already floating on tankers is about to be cut. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent confirmed in...
Vance task force alleges SBA shielded 562K loans tied to $22.2B fraud
For nearly four years, more than half a million pandemic-era small business loans sat flagged inside the Small Business Administration’s own systems, tagged as potentially...
Supreme Court’s late-term business cases could ripple across the economy
The Supreme Court’s current term ends in weeks, and corporate America is bracing for a volley of rulings that could raise drug prices, reshape energy...
White House moves to refund $166B after Supreme Court tariff ruling
Thousands of American importers are in line to recover money from the federal government after the Supreme Court struck down tariffs imposed under the International...
Goldman CEO David Solomon warns on $40T debt as rates stay high
Goldman Sachs CEO David Solomon warned last October that the United States is “heading for a debt reckoning if growth flags.” In the months since,...
Poll: Most voters blame Trump for the recent spike in gas prices
The price on the gas station sign has become a political scoreboard, and President Donald Trump is losing. Nearly two out of three registered voters...
U.S. business formations hit record levels as startup filings surge
Americans filed more applications to start new businesses in the first quarter of 2026 than in any comparable period since the U.S. Census Bureau began...