Aug 7, 2026
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2% of participants pulled money out early before COVID. Last year it was 6%. The savings gap is widening from both ends.
Aug 6, 2026
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That ratio is the number that actually tells you who holds the cards when salary talks happen.
Aug 5, 2026
On a $6,700 balance — the national per-person average — that six-point jump costs an extra $400 a year just to carry the same debt.
Aug 4, 2026
Longer than the dot-com bust. Longer than COVID. More than 50 percent longer than the financial crisis. It finally flipped.
Jul 31, 2026
Congress passed a housing bill last month. A ribbon-cutting does not close a gap that size, and the Fed made sure of it again this week.
Jul 30, 2026
When residents leave, they take their income and their tax base with them. Higher taxes on fewer people push out more people — a flywheel that has been running since 2020.
Jul 29, 2026
If those 10 stocks drop 20% while everything else holds flat, your 'diversified' fund loses 8%. That's not a worst-case scenario. That's arithmetic.
Jul 28, 2026
It's a Stack of Treasury Bonds — IOUs From One Arm of Government to Another — and They're Being Cashed in Faster Every Year
Jul 24, 2026
Supply chains don't reorganize on an 18-month timeline. Factories don't move that fast. Prices do — and they already are. That's what matters to your money, whatever side of the debate you're on.
Jul 23, 2026
The other 490 companies split what's left. Ray has the chart.
Jul 22, 2026
Small business: 67%. Congress: 9%. A gap that wide is worth saying out loud at dinner tonight — and you'll have a source when someone asks.
Jul 21, 2026
U.S. data centers will draw 204 TWh this year — more than most individual states use. Grid upgrades, new plants, transmission lines: somebody pays, and it is not the tech companies.
