Personal Finance

Estimate your tax refund or how much you may owe to the IRS with TaxCaster, our free tax calculator that stays up to date on the latest tax laws so you can be confident in the calculations.

Hundreds of cities and towns are seriously short of housing, both homes to buy and rentals, according to a new study. It's the main reason that home prices and rents are so high.

Birthed by the housing crisis, can a push to build more homes become the centerpiece of a political coalition?

Netflix has been working hard to find a way to crack down on password sharing outside of an account’s primary household. Its ability to stop password sharing is rooted in the economic concept known as excludability.

Many of our every day decisions have a financial impact, which makes personal finance a crucial skill. It applies in almost every aspect of life. It’s especially important in high school, before students venture on the

Moody’s Analytics CRE closely monitors housing affordability across the nation. Our economists share the latest findings from Q4 2022.

Fasten your seatbelt: The housing market is in for a bumpy five-year ride.

30% of Americans say they’re reliant on their tax refund to make ends meet in 2023, especially Gen Z and millennials Despite fewer pandemic tax credits, 29% of Americans expect a higher tax refund this year Nearly a quarter of American taxpayers plan to use their tax refund to pay for necessities (24%) It’s the […]

More states are slashing or eliminating taxes, lessening the burden mostly for the wealthy. What does that cost the rest of us?

Graph and download economic data for S&P/Case-Shiller U.S. National Home Price Index from Jan 1987 to Oct 2022 about HPI, housing, price index, indexes, price, USA, and composite.

These services essentially provide customers an alternative way to pay for purchases over time without going into credit card debt or taking out a traditional personal loan.

In the 2018 Nora and Edward Ryerson Lecture at the University of Chicago, Richard H. Thaler discusses his Nobel Prize-winning research.Richard H. Thaler is t...

Buy Now, Pay Later (or BNPL) loans have seen an astronomical growth in popularity - you’ve probably seen them while shopping online. While they may seem like...

BNPL loans are consumer installment loans that allow you to purchase items right away with little or no initial payment and pay off the balance in installments over time.

Upwork (Nasdaq: UPWK), the world’s work marketplace that connects businesses with independent talent, today released the results of “Freelance Forward

Maxwell Frost, who became the first Gen Z candidate to be elected to the U.S. House in November, says Congress has a serious problem of accessibility for people who don't come from wealth.

A growing body of research shows the Zillow Observed Rent Index (ZORI) leads survey-based average rent indexes, including the rent component of the Consumer Price Index, by up to 12 months.

Money makes us do things we wish we didn’t, but why is that? Behavioral economists and neuroscientists decode psychological dynamics resulting from 25 million years of human evolution - all so you can make smarter financial decisions.

Rents in October rose 4.7% compared with October 2021, the slowest annual increase in 18 months, according to Realtor.com.

Allen would have likely made more money buying an S&P 500 index fund.

Governor Gretchen Whitmer launched a new webpage to help the graduating class of 2023 apply for the Michigan Achievement Scholarship and lower their cost of college by thousands of dollars a year.

The backdoor Roth IRA strategy allows taxpayers to set up a Roth IRA even if their income exceeds the IRS earnings ceiling for Roth ownership.

A majority of Americans say they’re not keeping up with their retirement savings, according to a new Bankrate survey. A key reason: Inflation.