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
Medicare Part B premium rises 9.7% to $202.90 a month in 2026
The standard Medicare Part B premium will jump to $202.90 per month in 2026, an increase of $17.90 from the $185.00 that enrollees paid in...
Pentagon says Iran war cost $18B, seeks $200B more from Congress
The Pentagon is asking Congress to approve roughly $200 billion in emergency war funding for its military campaign against Iran, a request that arrived on...
JPMorgan sets $170,000 Bitcoin target, citing gold-market comparison
A bank whose CEO once called Bitcoin a “fraud” now sees it reaching $170,000, and the reasoning starts with gold. JPMorgan Chase strategist Nikolaos Panigirtzoglou...
Jeremy Grantham warns AI boom is a bubble and a bust is coming
Jeremy Grantham has been calling bubbles for half a century, and he has been right often enough that Wall Street cannot afford to ignore him....
30-year mortgage rate holds near 6.5% as buyers stay cautious
Spring is supposed to be when the housing market comes alive. This year, it has barely flinched. The average 30-year fixed mortgage rate has spent...
Intuit shares slide to a 52-week low as “SaaSpocalypse” fears grow
Intuit Inc. dropped to a 52-week low in April 2026, dragged down not by its own results but by a market-wide panic over the future...
Chase Sapphire Reserve raises annual fee to $795, adds new perks
The Chase Sapphire Reserve now costs $795 a year. That is a $245 jump from the card’s previous $550 annual fee, and it marks the...
U.S.-Iran peace talks in Pakistan end without a deal after 21 hours
Twenty-one hours of face-to-face negotiations between American and Iranian delegations collapsed early Sunday without an agreement, putting a fragile ceasefire in jeopardy and prompting the...
Consumer sentiment sinks to record low as inflation view hits 4.8%
Americans are more pessimistic about the economy than at any point in the 72-year history of the University of Michigan’s consumer survey. The preliminary Index...
Gas prices jump 21.2% in March, biggest monthly rise since 1967
American drivers got walloped at the pump in March 2026. Gasoline prices surged 21.2% in a single month, the sharpest spike since the Bureau of...
Social Security trust fund may run dry by 2032, CBO projection shows
A worker turning 60 this year could be 66 when Social Security’s reserves hit zero, too young even to reach the program’s full retirement age...
AI-driven credit card fraud cases surge 46% year over year
The call came on a Tuesday afternoon in late 2025, and it sounded exactly like a bank’s fraud department: the same hold music, the same...
April 15 tax deadline nears as IRS prepares for 164 million returns
The IRS expects to receive roughly 164 million individual income tax returns by Wednesday, April 15, a volume that would make this one of the...
Bitcoin stuck in extreme fear for 46 days, longest stretch since LUNA
Forty-six days. That’s how long the Crypto Fear & Greed Index has been stuck in “Extreme Fear” territory for Bitcoin, a streak that began in...
Cybersecurity stocks sink over 7% on AI disruption fears after Anthropic
Traders dumped cybersecurity stocks in early April 2026, sending shares of CrowdStrike, Palo Alto Networks, Fortinet, and Zscaler down sharply in a single session. The...
Block cuts about 40% of staff as company shifts spending to AI
Jack Dorsey’s Block Inc. is eliminating roughly 4,000 jobs, slashing about 40% of its workforce in one of the largest AI-justified layoffs the technology industry...