The Biden administration wants to reduce junk fees. But what are they?
On-the-street interviews about rent, salaries, and bank balances have surged in popularity.
Congress is taking aim at interchange fees, which merchants must pay anytime a customer swipes their card.
Finance may seem complex, but it’s governed by four core principles.
When you understand the market’s cycles, they become less confusing, less scary, and more exciting.
A new type of fund that is part venture capital, part nonprofit, could help even the playing field.
Morgan Housel’s simple philosophy on how to save and invest.
A wide range of factors are pushing retirees back into the workforce.
Saving without a spending goal has many benefits, including control over your time.
Morgan Housel describes the underappreciated secret to become an investing genius.
Andrew Curtin, founder of employer branding agency Chronicmedia, lets us dig through his bank statements to see how he manages money.
Capital One is the biggest bank to eliminate overdraft fees, which make the company $150m annually.
ProShares and Mastercard, 2 institutions tied to the traditional financial infrastructure, are helping crypto go mainstream.
NerdWallet started with an Excel spreadsheet and $800. Today, it’s on a $360m run rate, primarily from affiliate revenue.
“Finfluencers” use platforms like TikTok and Instagram to make finance topics digestible to younger audiences, and can make $500k+ per year.
The wash sale rule prevents you from claiming losses on certain sales. And it can mean trouble if you don’t know about it.
Ramp is a startup that offers corporate cards and spend management software that is valued at $3.9B.
Coca-Cola joins the growing list of consumer brands experimenting with NFTs with its recent launch.
SoftBank has invested $80B+ into 264 startups. It still has $40B+ to burn.
President Biden wants to eliminate 1031 exchanges, which allow real estate investors to defer gains on property deals.
Carta started by helping startups manage cap tables. Now, it wants to build the world’s largest private market exchange.
Poshmark, ThredUp, and Wish were all founded after the 2008-09 financial crisis. A decade on -- and amid another crisis -- these bargain shopping apps are thriving.
The $24B “buy now, pay later” (BNPL) industry is booming and Affirm is targeting a $5-10B IPO.
Investors made billions shorting the US housing bubble in 2007-08. Another ‘Big Short’ is brewing now with shopping malls as the target.
Tiny co-founder Andrew Wilkinson is emulating the world’s most famous investor, closing deals on tech companies in short order.
Earlier this month, a company called LTSE — Long-Term Stock Exchange — got SEC approval to be the country’s 14th national equity exchange. But the new exchange, designed to encourage long-term investment and help startups go public, faces an uphill battle against mega-exchanges. The rise of XL-sized exchanges In the 1900s, most major US cities […]