Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen told U.S. lawmakers the federal government was projected to reach its debt limit next Thursday, marking a starting point for what is likely to be a long and tense battl...
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The Stock Market Is on a Tear. Don’t Ignore the Debt Ceiling.
It’s always fun until the bill comes due—and the bill always comes due. In fact, it’s coming due right about now. On Friday, Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen warned Congress that the U.S. would hit its...
ConocoPhillips in Talks to Sell Venezuelan Oil in U.S. to Recover Billions It Is Owed
ConocoPhillips, which abandoned Venezuela after its assets were nationalized in 2007, is now open to a deal to sell the country’s oil in the U.S. as a way to recover the close to $10 billion it is owe...
Fed’s Powell won’t stop rate hikes until he ‘terrifies’ the wealthiest of investors, says this CIO
Investors are waking up to a whiff of positivity where stocks are concerned for Monday, after last week’s first gain in five that was prompted by weak wage growth Alongside a bleak Institute for Suppl...
Brazil’s New President Sends Stocks Tumbling. Bonds Could Be a Buy.
Investors brimmed with optimism when Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva was elected Brazil’s president on Oct. 30, returning to power after two prior terms in 2003 to 2011. It didn’t last. The iShares MSCI Bra...
Opinion: Crypto insurance is nearly nonexistent, so you’ll have to rely on common sense
If only your bitcoin could catch on fire — literally — then it might have a chance of being covered by insurance. For property, fire is a straightforward hazard. But it’s probably the one big thing th...
Opinion: Opinion: Trump’s low tax payments are what happens with a too-complex tax code
People tend to have one of two reactions to the revelation that former President Donald Trump paid little to no taxes in recent years: He’s either an amoral tax cheat or he’s smart. To me, it reveals ...
Democrats release six years of Trump’s tax returns, and CPAs have questions: ‘The personal tax return is just the tip of the iceberg.’
The nonpartisan committee’s findings also raised several red flags related to the filings, namely Trump’s carryover losses, loans to his children that may or may not also be considered taxable gifts, ...
Warren Buffett jumps into local politics to fight Omaha streetcar project
OMAHA, Neb. — Billionaire investor Warren Buffett broke with his practice of staying out of local politics to urge his hometown of Omaha to abandon its planned streetcar project because he says it’s t...
Donald Trump paid $0 in taxes in 2020. He’s not alone: 60% of households paid no federal income tax that year, but for very different reasons.
It’s not that unusual. Former President Donald Trump and his wife, Melania, paid $0 in income taxes for 2020, according to a report released late Tuesday by the congressional Joint Committee on Taxati...
The White House embraced debt forgiveness in 2022. Here’s what student-loan borrowers can expect in 2023.
This was the year the White House embraced the idea of mass student-loan forgiveness, but 2023 will likely be the year when borrowers will find out whether the policy will actually impact their wallet...
Workers and retirees are getting some year-end goodies from Washington
America’s workers and retirees are getting some nice year-end gifts from Washington. As part of a bigger bill to keep the government running, Congress has passed, and President Biden has signed, somet...
5 things not to buy in 2023
It’s been a year of contradictions. The recession drum beats on, interest rates are rising, and the stock market has taken a tumble, and yet retail sales have risen 6.5% in the last 12 months, trailin...
D.C. spending deal sets way for employers to help workers build cash savings
As people watch their savings sink under inflation’s pressure, one provision in the congressional year-end spending deal aims to make it easier for workers to save money for life’s unexpected expenses...
The Secure Act Will Change Retirement Policy. 6 Big Changes That Will Soon Become Law.
Now that the Senate has passed a sweeping spending bill to fund the federal government into next year and avert a shutdown, advisors are cheering a major overhaul of the rules around retirement saving...
6 Big Changes to Your Retirement That Are Coming
Now that the Senate has passed a sweeping spending bill to fund the federal government into next year and avert a shutdown, advisors are cheering a major overhaul of the rules around retirement saving...
Your Retirement Plans Will Change With the $1.7 Trillion Federal Spending Bill
Congress is poised to approve a $1.7 trillion spending bill this week that seeks to avert a government shutdown and boost the savings of Americans by making significant changes to their retirement pla...
Secure 2.0 Act Nears the Finish Line. What to Know About the Retirement Bill.
Legislation that would encourage saving for retirement and increase the age for taking required minimum distributions is nearing passage on Capitol Hill as part of an omnibus spending bill lawmakers a...
Big Changes to 401(k) Retirement Plans Move Ahead in Congress
Listen to article (2 minutes) Congress is on the verge of passing a bill that aims to help Americans save more for retirement and leave their retirement savings untouched and untaxed for longer. The b...
New tax rule for eBay and Venmo will cause ‘significant confusion,’ CPAs say
As Congress concludes 2022 with a sprint to pass laws and a spending deal, tax accountants are joining a chorus of e-commerce companies and pay platforms who say a revamped tax form is about to cause ...
My mom spent $90K on bitcoin and gifts in a romance scam. Can the tax code help her?
My mom went into debt to buy bitcoin for a scammer because she thought she was in a romantic relationship with him. She also racked up credit-card debt to mail computers and gift cards to the scammer....
Opinion: Opinion: The Fed should pause rate hikes since inflation has slowed — it won’t
The Federal Reserve should declare an immediate cease fire in its war against inflation and hold its benchmark interest rate steady instead of raising the federal funds by a half percentage point to a...
Cryptocurrency investor losses are being turned into IRS gains — here’s how they’re doing it
The Internal Revenue Service has been turning up its scrutiny on cryptocurrency investors in recent years, and as that happens, more investors have been turning to the tax code’s rules on investment l...
This long-time bear warns of a ‘trapdoor’ situation looming for the stock market.
Uncertainty is lingering for investors following a recent mixed batch of data — softer-than-expected inflation, stronger-than-anticipated jobs and wages — as we kick off the third week before Christma...
Opinion: Opinion: The debt ceiling is a farce, not a crisis
AUSTIN, Texas (Project Syndicate)—In his bid to become speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives, Kevin McCarthy apparently agreed to a demand, voiced by Republican Congressman Ralph Norman of Sout...