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Americans are approaching their credit card limits ahead of holidays

Lower-income households have used 80-90% of their available credit
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Young and house-less: How Millennials and Gen Z missed the low-rate bandwagon

America’s younger generations may have missed their prime opportunity to own real estate. With mortgage payments up more than 50%...
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U.S. recession may have started nearly one year ago, says former Fed adviser

Danielle DiMartino Booth warns that the economy has all the makings of a recession that started a long time ago
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JPMorgan: 99% of Americans will be less wealthy and have less purchasing power than before Covid

Depleted savings, persistent inflation, and higher borrowing costs will make Americans worse off than before the pandemic by mid-2024
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U.S. housing affordability is worse than the peak of the 2006 housing bubble

Americans today need to spend nearly 44% of their income to afford an average home
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30% of office buildings are ‘worth nothing’ and have to be torn down, say experts

A commercial real estate expert warns of an 'officepocalypse'
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Hotshot Wharton professor sees $34 trillion debt sparking next financial crisis

It’s easy to shrug off the federal debt as someone else’s problem, but the government’s spending addiction could have debilitating consequences
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Auto-pocalypse? Americans are falling behind on their car payments

Believe it or not, about one-third of Americans are considered “subprime” borrowers
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This is how far Americans are from reaching their retirement goals

Americans across all age brackets are woefully underprepared for retirement, according to Vanguard data
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These 5 charts show that the inflation battle is over

The catch: it may take time for the effect to reach grocery shelves.
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Millennials are more retirement-ready than their parents

More than one-third of millennials believe they won’t get a dime of Social Security when they retire, so they’re taking matters into their own hands
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U.S. dollar on the brink: 14-year support tested as analysts warn of make-or-break level

After its worst six months in half a century, the greenback is flirting with a major technical breakdown that could mark the start of a new, long-term downcycle
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Trump is making it harder for shareholders to sue companies

Trump’s deregulation agenda has been somewhat muted thus far. But that might be about to change.
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Bye-bye 401(k)s: Has Sherwin-Williams set a dangerous precedent for Corporate America?

Sherwin-Williams’ decision to suspend its 401(k) matching program highlights growing corporate strain and raises the risk that more companies may follow suit
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From ‘Not Good!!!’ to ‘Terrible Idea’: Trump’s war on quarterly earnings splits Wall Street

“If execs can’t handle 4 reports a year, should they really be running billion-dollar businesses?”
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'The CRE crisis is getting worse,' as commercial delinquencies break records

With vacancies topping 20% and refinancing harder than ever, office loan delinquencies have climbed past the financial crisis peak, raising risks for lenders, investors, and regional banks.
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'A key recession signal is flashing red' as America sleepwalks into recession, experts say

U.S. construction spending — long considered a bellwether for economic activity — has dropped for six straight months
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“Cash is trash” — Cash allocations among BoA private clients sink to pre-crisis levels

Bank of America’s richest clients have cut cash to the lowest share since before 2008, piling into markets even as gold outshines every other asset class.
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Mag 7 are masking recession in corporate America and economy

The “Magnificent 7” have become a poster child of a growing divide between Big Tech and the rest of corporate America.
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“Sahm Rule was right all along” as BLS revisions expose massive job losses

Massive jobs revisions reveal that America’s labor market was weaker than reported, suggesting the recession signal never failed only the data did
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