Inflation Federal Reserve Interest Rate Hikes By Jeremy Reif, CRPS The big news from banks in the last few weeks was in their internal financial reporting that account balances continue to trend down for consumers. Speculating on two things. The first is that consumers have spent all or most of their COVID-19 relief money. The […]
As the bad first two years of the pandemic recede in the rear-view mirror, a new report reminds us how tough things got for renters. In 2021, a record 21.6 million U.S. families were paying more than 30 percent of their income on rent, which is the real estate industry’s benchmark for people whose housing […]
The economy expanded smartly in the years before the Great Recession, just as it did before the COVID downturn. But the two recessions were markedly different, with opposite effects on when older workers signed up for Social Security, a new study finds. In 2008, the stock market slid nearly 40 percent. Older Americans with retirement […]
