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
Credit card rewards lose value faster than many users realize
More than 90 percent of general-purpose credit card spending has flowed through rewards cards since 2019, according to the CFPB’s report on the consumer credit...
Reading a CPI report to see what inflation really means for your bills
On April 10, the Bureau of Labor Statistics published its Consumer Price Index report for March 2026, and within minutes the number that landed on...
Protecting bank accounts from the newest wave of AI-driven scams
The call sounds exactly like your bank. The voice is calm, professional, and knows your name. It warns about suspicious activity on your account and...
DOGE touts $160B saved; report estimates $135B in added costs
The Department of Government Efficiency has a number it wants Americans to remember: $160 billion. That is how much DOGE says it has saved taxpayers...
MetaMask adds trading for 264 tokenized stocks and ETFs via Ondo
MetaMask users can now buy and sell tokenized versions of U.S. stocks and exchange-traded funds directly inside their wallets, following a new integration with Ondo...
Weekly jobless claims rise to 219,000, exceeding economists’ views
The number of Americans filing new unemployment claims jumped to 219,000 last week, the Labor Department reported Thursday, overshooting the 215,000 that economists polled by...
Amazon says custom chip business tops $20B annual revenue run rate
Amazon’s in-house chip operation now generates more than $20 billion a year in cloud compute revenue, a run rate that surpasses the entire data-center businesses...
Meta expands CoreWeave AI compute pact to $21B through 2032
Meta Platforms has committed roughly $21 billion to CoreWeave for specialized GPU capacity through December 2032, a 50 percent increase over the $14 billion deal...
Morgan Stanley’s spot Bitcoin ETF logs $34M in first-day trading
Morgan Stanley’s first proprietary spot Bitcoin exchange-traded fund pulled in $34 million in trading volume on its opening day, according to secondary market data reported...
Strait of Hormuz stays largely shut despite U.S.-Iran ceasefire
The two-week ceasefire between the United States and Iran was supposed to reopen the Strait of Hormuz. Five days in, the waterway that carries roughly...
Oil rebounds above $100 after Iran alleges U.S. broke ceasefire
Oil prices surged back above $100 a barrel on April 9, 2026, erasing the relief that a fragile U.S.-Iran ceasefire had delivered just days earlier...
Delta plans to “meaningfully” cut capacity growth amid surging fuel costs
Summer travelers counting on a flood of new Delta Air Lines flights may need to rethink their plans. The carrier is scaling back its warm-weather...
Dow jumps 1,351 points for best session since April 2025
Traders on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange broke into applause just after 4 p.m. on April 8, 2026, as the closing bell...
Bitcoin climbs above $71,900 as U.S.-Iran ceasefire sparks risk rally
Bitcoin surged past $71,900 on Thursday, rallying roughly 4% from around $69,100 in fewer than 24 hours after the United States and Iran agreed to...
Oil Prices Crashed Nearly $20 in Hours After U.S.-Iran Ceasefire. Here’s What That Means for Your Wallet.
Crude oil futures cratered by nearly $20 a barrel on a single trading day in April 2026 after the United States and Iran announced a...
Trump announces 2-week Iran ceasefire tied to Hormuz reopening
For weeks, the White House cycled through threats, deadlines and last-minute reversals over Iran. On Monday, President Donald Trump landed on something concrete: a two-week...