Personal finance

More shoppers are using ‘buy now, pay later’ plans heading into Black Friday and the holiday season, as the ability to spread out payments looks attractive at a time when Americans still feel the lingering effect of inflation and already have record-high credit card debt. Experts say the short-term loans can lead consumers to overextend themselves and warn that those...

Makeup artist Alexandra Rutkay launched Citymouse after growing frustrated by most diaper bags. Her side hustle now brings in six figures in annual revenue.

Retirement savers in one state have the most saved up, on average, in the U.S.. Here is the average household retirement account balance for nearly every state.

Mindy earns five times as much as her boyfriend, Victor. But the bigger issue is their financial knowledge gap.

Anton Wormann, 32, transformed an abandoned house in Japan into a luxury Airbnb stay. Today, it brings in about $11,000 a month.

The Social Security Administration has announced a higher threshold for earnings subject to Social Security payroll taxes. Here’s what workers need to know.

Emily Odio-Sutton built a print-on-demand business on Etsy that paid off her student loan debt and financed family vacations. Here’s how.

Auto loan interest rates remain near decades-high levels of more than 9.61% for a new vehicle and nearly 14% for a used vehicle, according to Cox Automotive.

Cities and states across America have been offering money as an incentive to attract more residents.

A credit freeze for a child, called a Protected Consumer Freeze, is a free service to protect your child’s credit without impacting their future credit scores. Here’s what you need to know.

The Biden administration is moving to ban medical debt from credit reports.

Self-made billionaire Diane Hendricks’ fortune comes from Wisconsin-based roofing supplies company ABC Supply, which she co-founded with husband Ken Hendricks.

In several states, a six-figure income qualifies as ‘middle class,’ per GoBankingRate’s analysis. Here are the middle-class income ranges for every state.

Wade says that it took him more than half a decade in the NBA “to even start to understand” how to manage his millions. 

Telecommuting, a pandemic-era novelty that has become a permanent alternative for many people, has some Connecticut and New Jersey employees of New York-based companies questioning why they still have to pay personal income tax to the Empire State. Their home states are wondering as well. Fed up with losing out on hundreds of millions of dollars in tax revenue each…

Audrey Finocchiaro and Sam Lancaster nearly gave up on The Nitro Bar. Now, their coffee business brings in $4.5 million a year across Rhode Island and Massachusetts.

You don’t have to live on the coasts to make a solid income, but it may help.

Lewis Hamilton is ‘serious’ about exploring his passions outside of racing.

Budgeting often gives a sense of deprivation. There are ways to reframe the exercise more positively, experts said.

The Treasury Department has made the new clean vehicle tax credit much easier to obtain this year.