Tyler Foster
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Buying the typical home now costs over $1,000 more a month than renting it — the widest gap on record, and it’s keeping a generation stuck as tenants
Run the numbers on a median-priced home in Phoenix today and the result is blunt: buying costs roughly $1,200 more per month than renewing a...
Full retirement age officially hit 67 this year — and anyone born in 1960 who claims at 62 will lose 30% of their Social Security check for life
If you were born in 1960, you are part of a group that holds a distinction no previous generation of American retirees can claim: your...
Millions are now typing bank balances and logins into ChatGPT’s new money tools — and researchers found 4% of all AI prompts already leak sensitive personal data
Somewhere today, a corporate accountant will paste a spreadsheet of quarterly revenue figures into ChatGPT. A gig worker will upload three months of bank transactions...
Egg prices have crashed back to about $2 a dozen — a rare grocery win as bird flu eases, even while beef and coffee keep setting records
A dozen large eggs cost about $2.12 in April 2026, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics average price series, with some regional markets still...
Waiting until 70 to claim Social Security now pays up to $5,181 a month — about $1,000 more than the $4,152 that same worker gets at full retirement age
The Social Security Administration’s 2026 benefit tables spell out a gap that is hard to ignore: a maximum-earning worker who files at 70 collects $5,181...
Chocolate now costs more than double what it did in 2024 and orange juice is up 28% — tariffs and bad weather are quietly wrecking the breakfast aisle
A standard chocolate bar that cost $1.79 two years ago now runs well over $4 at many supermarkets. A half-gallon of not-from-concentrate orange juice that...
Southwest just raised its first checked-bag fee to $45 — a 28% jump it blames on the Iran war, a year after killing the free bags that made it Southwest
A family of four flying Southwest Airlines this summer and checking one bag each will pay $360 in round-trip baggage fees. Thirteen months ago, that...
Mortgage rates are stuck near 6.6%, so buyers are winning concessions instead — sellers covered closing costs or bought down the rate on 1 in 4 sales last quarter
The listing price on a townhouse outside Raleigh, North Carolina, never budged from $420,000. But at closing, the seller wrote a $12,000 check that covered...
Just five tech stocks have driven more than half the S&P 500’s gains this year — so your index fund is now a bet on a handful of companies
As of early June 2026, the S&P 500 has returned roughly 11% year to date. But strip away just five names and the picture changes...
Cloudflare, Upwork, and payments firm Bill each cut up to a third of their staff this month — pushing 2026’s AI-driven layoffs past 70,000 workers
In a single day, more than 2,000 tech workers learned their jobs were being restructured out of existence. On May 7, 2026, Cloudflare, Upwork, and...
One year after Moody’s stripped the U.S. of its last AAA rating, the 30-year Treasury yield just hit 5.14% — the number that sets the floor under every mortgage
The 30-year Treasury yield crossed 5.14% in late May 2025, a level not seen since before the 2008 financial crisis. It arrived almost to the...
Airfares are actually cheaper this Memorial Day than last year — the rare corner of travel that got more affordable while gas, hotels, and rental cars all climbed
A round-trip flight from Chicago to Fort Lauderdale over Memorial Day weekend is running roughly $40 to $60 less than the same trip cost a...
The standard deduction climbed to $32,200 for married couples this year — but the new senior bonus deduction is the break most retirees are leaving on the table
Married couples filing jointly for tax year 2026 will claim a record standard deduction of $32,200, thanks to the latest round of inflation adjustments the...
You now need to earn $127,000 a year to afford the median U.S. home — up from $79,000 before the pandemic, pricing out half of all households
Six years ago, a household earning $79,000 could qualify for a mortgage on a median-priced home in the United States. That was the math in...
A new federal “debanking” rule takes effect June 9 — after that, your bank can no longer close your account over your politics or your industry
A new federal “debanking” rule takes effect June 9 — after that, your bank can no longer close your account over your politics or your...
Foreclosure filings jumped 28% in a year to the highest level since 2020 — and rising insurance and tax bills, not bad mortgages, are driving them
When Maria Gonzalez bought her three-bedroom stucco house in Hillsborough County, Florida, in 2020, her total monthly payment was $1,480. She locked in a 3.1%...