Everybody, including the Federal Reserve, is caught in a bind. The Fed's key rate is the federal funds rate, which has been at 5.25% to 5% since July 2023. That was the lesson contained in the ...

When the last major home insurer announced last year that it would be leaving the Hawaii market by August of this year, homeowners in Lava Zones 1 and 2 discovered that their only other option for ...

Lijuan "Angela" Chen, 51, pleaded guilty to one count of conspiracy to defraud the U.S. and one count of using counterfeit postage, according to a statement from the U.S. Justice Department. A ...

A New Jersey man who admitted cooking up a scheme that capitalized on his social media persona to bilk investors out of over $8 million was sentenced Wednesday to seven years in state prison, ...

A federal jury on Thursday found a North Carolina insurance agent and two Missouri lawyers guilty on all counts in a $4 million tax evasion scheme that also defrauded an insurance carrier. The jury in ...

Former President Trump's potential plan to exert more influence over the Federal Reserve is alarming experts and investors. Even so, experts say Trump's attempts could seriously harm the U.S. and its ...

For 50 years, the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 has provided a safety net that protects older Americans' pensions from corporate and financial predators. Such protections would have ...

If you own a business and you offer a 401 or similar retirement plan to your employees, you'll want to stay current on the various changes affecting these types of accounts. And in 2024, you may find ...

"We're primed to burn; we've been primed to burn for a long, long time," said Schaum, owner of the Santa Fe- based tree-management business Chris' Tree Service. The volunteer nonprofit Villages of ...

Mississippi could be next, where an expansion measure continues to advance in the state Legislature— with a plan perhaps partly inspired by the unusual variation on Medicaid expansion first enacted in ...

Some Virginia state employees will pay more for health insurance beginning July 1, following the state's latest review and projection of claims. Overall, the state Department of Human Resource ...

How badly does state-owned Citizens Property Insurance Corp. want to depopulate? State officials make no secret of the fact they don "t want Citizens Property Insurance Corp. to remain anywhere near ...