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The path forward in housing affordability requires political courage to address the root cause of high costs: a fundamental ...

Despite flat home values, many homeowners are seeing a spike in property taxes because 2025 represented a “gap” year where ...

Oil prices exceeded $100 per barrel Thursday as the ongoing war in Iran caused energy costs to spike to their highest levels since 2022.

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Speaker Mike Johnson and his leadership team have been struggling to find consensus behind an election-year agenda to address Americans’ chief concerns over affordability and their cost-of-living.

The IEA released 400 million barrels in its biggest ever emergency intervention. But the world burns 103 million barrels every single day. The math is not mathing, and the clock is already ticking.

I am a schoolteacher. I am very good at what I do, but there is limited upward mobility for this position. I'll never make six figures, and my low salary requires me to have multiple other part-time ...

CLEVELAND, Ohio - U.S. Sen. Jon Husted testified for the defense Wednesday in the FirstEnergy corruption trial, saying he remembered little about conversations. We’re talking about what Husted said on ...

That idea misses the real story. Retirement planning does not revolve around one magical dollar amount, and the math behind a comfortable retirement often leads to a much smaller target. Truly knowing ...

The firm's Global Investment Office just dropped a sweeping analysis of the U.S.-Iran conflict. It should alarm every ...

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