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Millions of older Americans are living one missed rent payment or one hospitalization away from homelessness. Their fixed incomes can't keep pace. Once homeless, they age faster than their housed ...

In today's digital world, it might be surprising to hear that checks have become one of the most vulnerable entry points for fraud in the U.S. financial system. Fraud losses in the U.S. totaled at ...

You pay your insurance premium so one bad day does not wipe out a lifetime of work. Every increase squeezes the family budget: less to save, less to spend, less breathing room. When a storm destroys ...

Americans don't need politicians to tell them that things are expensive. They know it every time they fill up the gas tank, buy groceries, take the family out to dinner or call a contractor to fix ...

American families are getting crushed at the meat counter. The January inventory put the domestic cattle herd at 86.2 million head, the smallest since 1951. Four firms control roughly 85 percent of ...

Over the summer, a coordinated cyberattack targeted operational technology at more than 30 community water systems in Minnesota. The FBI later reported similar incidents in at least seven states. The ...

It's a depressingly familiar story: taxpayers lost a massive amount of money to waste, fraud, and abuse during the pandemic. On unemployment benefit checks alone, official government estimates ...

Last spring, a man named Clarke Reynolds ran a marathon in the United Kingdom. This wouldn't be remarkable, except--Clarke is legally blind, with only about five percent of his vision. He ran the ...

A new op-ed making the rounds defends the for-profit debt settlement industry through misdirection and obfuscation. Given that prior op-eds have done the same, this may be the only way this ...

The conviction of famed short seller Andrew Left in June, days before SpaceX's IPO drew Elon Musk into a public fight with the industry, has reopened an old argument about whether short sellers keep ...