Your phone bill may have caused higher interest rates — kind of. Americans have seen a 5.9% jump in their wireless bills from July to August alone, according to the Consumer Price Index (CPI) data. In fact, the bump was the largest single-month jump recorded by the Bureau of Labor Statistics in about thirty years. … Read more
Nearly nine in 10 Americans have seen their cost-of-living increase over the past five years, and a new study has found it’s having a massive impact on how they’re shopping, particularly online. The poll of 2,000 U.S. adults found consumers now spend the most on groceries (35%), clothing (27%) and home goods (17%) when shopping … Read more
It’s a small price to pay — and it’s paying off big time. With homeownership being far out of reach for most millennials and Gen Zs due to inflated asking prices, astronomical interest rates and crushing student loan debts, twenty- and thirty-somethings are getting creative about buying abodes. So, rather than scrimping and saving their … Read more