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Americans hoping for relief from high borrowing costs may have to wait longer. Just weeks ago, investors expected borrowing costs on products such as credit cards, auto loans and home equity lines of credit — all tied to the Federal…

I could end the deficit in five minutes,” he said. “You just pass a law that says that any time there’s a deficit of more than three percent of GDP, all sitting members of Congress are ineligible for re-election. Yeah,…

Economic conditions like gas prices well above $4 a gallon, according to AAA estimates, and annual inflation nearing 4%, per the Bureau of Labor Statistics, are pushing Americans’ financial stress levels higher. The National Foundation for Credit Counseling expects Americans’ economic stress levels to tick…

On 15 September 2008, Bobby Seagull arrived at his office in Canary Wharf just before 6am. It was the last time he would need to be on time. He was a trader at Lehman Brothers, an American bank undergoing serious…

NEWARK, N.J. – A Morristown man pled guilty on May 4, 2026 to conspiring to defraud small businesses by making false promises to induce them to enter debt relief contracts, U.S. Attorney Robert Frazer announced. “This defendant didn’t just break…

Spirit Airlines’ more than three-decade run ended over the weekend, but on Tuesday it was just starting the monthslong process of dismantling the company after the biggest U.S. airline collapse in a generation. Spirit and its stakeholders were in bankruptcy court in White…

NEW YORK/ALEXANDRIA – May 6, 2026 — The 644 commercial chapter 11 bankruptcy filings in April 2026 represented at 42 percent increase over the 454 filings recorded in April 2025, according to data provided by Epiq AACER, the leading provider of U.S. bankruptcy filing data.…

Credit cards carried the load in Q4 as Americans piled another $44 billion onto their balances, pushing the total to $1.28 trillion, a 5.5% jump from last year. The New York Fed’s Q4 2025 report shows households leaning on revolving…

Deteriorating asset quality, collateral markdowns and a growing rush for the exits are rattling private credit markets and prompting comparisons to the Global Financial Crisis. But a spike in loan defaults, while painful, could help shake out pockets of stress…

Wall Street banks may finally be getting a long-awaited opening to claw back market share from private credit lenders. After a decade in which private credit lenders grew rapidly and took over a large share of financing for leveraged buyouts,…