Apr 01 Unhappy with your refund under the new tax law? Here’s what to do By Gretchen Frazee The 2017 tax overhaul that took effect this year could change millions of Americans' refunds. Continue reading
Mar 29 What WOW’s collapse means for budget airlines and tourism By Gretchen Frazee Now that WOW is ending its operations, tourism to Iceland could decline by as much as 16 percent, according to one estimate. Continue reading
Mar 28 Watch 7:57 Anxious about debt, Generation Z makes college choice a financial one By Paul Solman The amount of student loan debt Americans hold is at a record high, and much of it is shouldered by Millennials--people in their late 20s and 30s. Now, children in Generation Z, the group born after 1996, are facing their… Continue watching
Mar 28 Worried about taking on student loans? Here are some tips By Beth Kobliner The No.1 worry for high schoolers applying to college is student debt, according to a recent survey from The Princeton Review. Continue reading
Mar 27 How to navigate Social Security’s benefits after marriage, death and divorce By Philip Moeller Your Social Security benefits can be drastically different based on your marital status, writes columnist Philip Moeller. Continue reading
Mar 27 How the U.S.-China trade war could damage the Amazon rainforest By Gretchen Frazee Increased soybean production in Brazil could cause up to 32 million acres of deforestation in the Amazon, more land than in New York state. Continue reading
Mar 25 Why the inverted yield curve makes investors worry about a recession By Gretchen Frazee The yield curve measures the difference between short-term and long-term interest interest rates on government bonds. Continue reading
Mar 21 Watch 9:51 Why Louisianans blame government, not corporations, for pollution problems By Paul Solman UC Berkeley sociologist Arlie Hochschild traveled to Louisiana, the second-poorest state, to explore why its neediest populations simultaneously rely on federal aid and reject the concept of “big government.” As Paul Solman reports, the author and professor discovered many residents… Continue watching
Mar 20 3 new tax rules homeowners need to know By Rianka Dorsainvil How homeowners file their taxes this year could be affected by a number of new changes, including the cap on mortgage interest deductions. Continue reading
Mar 19 Lyft and Uber’s plans to go public, explained By Thomas Maxwell In recent months, Lyft and Uber have been offering steep discounts to their customers in an attempt to corner more of the market before they go public. Continue reading