Money
Insurance Is the New Inflation
Headline inflation cooled, but households keep feeling squeezed, and the culprit hiding in the budget is insurance: home, auto and health premiums repricing years of accumulated risk.
Households
Money
Savers Are Finally Being Paid, and They Are Acting Like It
After years of earning nothing, household savers have become rate shoppers, and the deposit market is behaving like a market again.
Markets
Retail Traders Grow Up
The meme-stock cohort did not disappear when the fever broke. It aged into the most financially engaged retail generation in decades, with the account balances to show it.