Americans love being first. First to finish a race. First to climb Mount Everest. First to reach the moon. First to reach a net worth of...

Big news dropped on December 18, 2024—the Federal Reserve cut interest rates again, this time by 0.25 percentage points. That means the...

Home affordability has become a topic of significant interest and concern for many individuals and families across the country. With...

Turn the dial on the Wayback Machine to September 5, 1882. Most Americans work 12 hours per day, seven days per week, often in physically...

In 1922, Ernest Hemingway was working as a reporter and living in bohemian poverty in Paris with his first wife, Hadley. The newlyweds...

Sports fans love when new stars join their teams. Sometimes it’s a promising rookie called up to the majors, like Elly de la Cruz...

Forty years ago this week — July 29, to be precise — Clark Griswold loaded his wife Ellen and children Rusty and Audrey into their...

Today’s millennials and Generation Z have hit some speed bumps on their path toward financial independence—the Dotcom crash of 1999, the...

This week, we celebrate the 247th anniversary of America’s Declaration of Independence — a milestone of human imagination and courage....

If you had “Russian uprising” and “Titanic-related disaster” on your 2023 bingo card, congratulations! You’re either a time traveler from...

Our beloved internal revenue code currently runs 4,968 pages. That’s a lot of fingers and toes! But you can reduce the whole exercise to...

In 1748, Benjamin Franklin published an essay called “Advice to a Young Tradesman,” where he wrote, “Remember that time is money.” Back...

Here in the United States, tax policy rests on the notion that tax rates should rise with income, so those who earn more pay a greater...

JP Morgan (NYSE: JPM) acquired (i.e. saved / bailed out) First Republic Bank (NYSE: FRC) from bankruptcy. When the banks lend money out,...

Summer is coming, and for music fans across America that means stadium tours. Taylor Swift fans went through several bear attacks to get...

April 15 is almost here, and panicky taxpayers across America are begging their tax pros for any help they can get for bills they aren’t...

Scientists recently announced finding a fossilized horseshoe crab brain from 310 million years ago. As the New York Times reported,...

We've talked here a time or two about how taxes factor into every financial choice you make. Whether you're selling a business,...

If you've spent any time online lately, you're familiar with so-called "listicles" — those irresistible lists of trivial facts that pass...