- A powerful inflation storm is brewing — and your portfolio isn’t ready
Looming El Niño shock threatens to drive up global commodity prices. These investments can help protect your purchasing power.
- Social Security faces insolvency in 2032, when it would pay only 78% of benefits
Social Security, which provides benefits to more than 70 million retired workers and people with disabilities, faces increased pressure from last year’s One Big Beautiful Bill Act.
- Oil prices are defying a worst-case energy crisis — but workarounds won’t last forever
Experts point to three main reasons for the relatively steady prices but caution that a reckoning is not too far off.
- Your tech portfolio could be on the wrong side of the AI boom
Why the coming $1,000 videogame console will squeeze hardware stocks.
- Washington is quietly changing the rules for this vital American industry — and the timing couldn’t be worse
Congress and the White House are moving to micromanage railroads — putting a main artery of the U.S. economy at risk.
- The World Cup could deliver Fox a ratings bonanza: ‘There will be all sorts of viewership records’
Viewership for previous World Cup finals was only a little higher than for a strong Monday Night Football game, but with matches on U.S. soil, media executives are hopeful this will be the year soccer breaks through.
- Fund a grandchild’s retirement tax-free from birth — if you can trust an 18-year-old with the money
A new birth-to-retirement account bypasses standard Roth IRA rules — but the beneficiary gets control at adulthood.
- Apple’s AI could usher in a historic upgrade cycle that investors are overlooking
Apple’s new AI features are on track to be monetized faster than expected, thanks to increased hardware requirements and new “killer apps.”
- You can calculate the exact impact a reduced Social Security check will have on your retirement success
If benefits go down 22% in 2032 as predicted by the latest Trustees report, you need to know what that means for you.
- This proposed federal budget cut could eliminate job training for 42,000 vulnerable seniors
A job-training program for low-income older adults is set to lose funding under President Donald Trump’s proposed budget for 2027 — just as more stringent work requirements for food aid and healthcare coverage go into effect.