Month: September 2021

Families with school-aged children shouldn’t bank on spending time this summer in the countries opening to vaccinated travelers. Jordan Siemens | Stone | Getty Images House Democrats have unveiled a proposal to continue the expanded child tax credit through 2025. While one advocacy group, MomsRising, is “thrilled” with that development, executive director Kristin Rowe-Finkbeiner said
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Inflation tends to top the list of economic risks that investors obsess most about. After all, runaway inflation has devastated some economies over the centuries. Corralling inflation and keeping expectations well-anchored have been key mandates for most central banks for decades. However, inflation expectations are not uniform across age groups. Surveys from the New York
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FatCamera | E+ | Getty Images It’s a situation that appears incongruous: Congressional Democrats want to expand Medicare’s benefits while a trust fund that supports the program is facing insolvency. Indeed, some Republican lawmakers have seized on that looming problem as a reason to oppose a proposal to add dental, vision and hearing coverage to
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A tourist boat passes cowboy statues along Oklahoma City’s Bricktown Canal. Western heritage is a big draw in Oklahoma’s capital. Oklahoma City Convention and Visitors Bureau Ready to head out on vacation after the long pandemic-era drought — but not looking to go broke in the process? Online airport parking platform ParkSleepFly has ranked the
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Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies dropped steeply on September 7 despite the feel-good news that El Salvador has made bitcoin legal tender along with U.S. dollars. In fact, the crypto flash crash wiped out $400 billion in market value. Bitcoin itself dipped about 10% to less than $44,000 but recouped some of that by day’s end.
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In this article BYND Vegan chicken quick-serve restaurants like San Antonio, Texas-based Project Pollo are aiming directly at Chick-fil-A and its fried chicken sandwich as the plant-based meat industry rises against one of fast-food’s recent best-selling menu items. Bloomberg | Bloomberg | Getty Images In an iconic scene from 1970’s film “Five Easy Pieces,” a
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Studies suggest that most—at least 70%—of financial planning recommendations aren’t implemented. While we can hypothesize a number of singular reasons why this number might be so ugly, I’ll suggest that it’s actually a confluence of (at least) four factors that have led to this failure, two that are systematic and two that are psychological: 1)    Sales-orientated
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Federal unemployment benefits ended this month for millions of Americans and data show that workers in Virginia might feel it the most. The federal government’s enhanced unemployment benefit added $300 to weekly unemployment checks issued by states and also expanded coverage to the self-employed and freelancers, such as rideshare drivers and musicians. That expansion, called
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Charles Scharf Qilai Shen | Bloomberg | Getty Images Wells Fargo was hit with a $250 million fine from a banking regulator after it failed to properly execute a mortgage loss-mitigation program. The Office of the Comptroller of the Currency said Thursday that the bank engaged in “unsafe or unsound practices” tied to its loan-modification
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Travel + Leisure Club is a new subscription travel booking and concierge service. Travel + Leisure Group/Travel + Leisure Co. From private-jet clubs to theme park memberships, subscription services are increasingly the way to go when it comes to vacations and other leisure trips. For example, Internet sites Tripadvisor and Scott’s Cheap Flights — both
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