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Life must be feeling like one big, slap-up grouse supper right now for the rich. Recent budget changes mean you can pump millions into your retirement nest egg without paying extra tax, property prices are rising – and with interest rates…

While it might be too early to look for flights, it’s the right time to buy tickets for the 2024 Paris Summer Olympics. Some admissions are as cheap as $26, and for the first time ever, the opening and closing ceremony will take place…

The collapses of Silicon Valley Bank (SVB) and Signature Bank earlier this month were the second- and third-biggest bank failures in U.S. history. While those institutions catered mostly to the tech industry, it’s natural to feel a sense of…

For decades, it has been generally agreed upon that while it may be a truly magical animated film, the racial politics of Disney’s 1953 classic Peter Pan are, uh, not great. If you haven’t seen it in a while, may I refresh your memory with…

The Government could afford to offer one-off pay awards or backdated wage hikes for public sector workers due to an improved economic outlook, a thinktank has said. The Institute for Fiscal Studies said the UK’s finances were in…

In ongoing efforts to combat inflation, the Federal Reserve announced early February that it’s raising interest rates by 0.25% up to a target range 4.5 to 4.75%. This is the eighth meeting in a row to result in increased rates, and the Fed…

The cost of living crisis means we’re all feeling the pinch financially. We’re all thinking about our money now more than ever, and there are plenty of financial changes coming up in March that you should know about. The biggest event…

In 2022, BioCatch, a software company that delivers advanced fraud protection, estimated that there are approximately two million mule accounts in the U.S., and about $3 billion in fraudulent transfers a year. The same research estimates…

Looming apocalypse. Paranoid conspiracies. Rocket-obsessed oligarchs. As Thomas Pynchon’s novel turns 50, its world feels unnervingly present.

You have your basic checking and savings accounts—beyond that, how can different types of accounts serve your savings goals? What’s the smartest way to stash your hard-earned funds? We’ve recommended before that dividing your money into…