Pension Funds Plunge Into Riskier Bets—Just as Markets Are Struggling
U.S. public pension funds don’t have nearly enough money to pay for all their obligations to future retirees. A growing...
Personal finance
What It Takes to Buy Your First Home Now
Dylan Holland and Breanna Cameron started shopping for their first home in the Atlanta suburbs in December 2021, with a...
Tesla Raises Prices Amid Surging Costs
Tesla Inc. TSLA -8.54% has raised the prices on some of its cars by as much as $6,000, as the...
WSJ News Exclusive | Biden Decision on Student-Loan Forgiveness Unlikely Until Later in Summer, Officials Say
WASHINGTON—President Biden is likely to decide later this summer whether to partially forgive student-loan debt for millions of borrowers, according...
The Market Is Melting Down and People Are Feeling It. ‘My Stomach Is Churning All Day’
The last time Todd Jones heard this kind of panic in his clients’ voices, it was 2008 and the global...
They Came, They Hiked, They Stayed: Retirees Lift Fortunes in Rural America
PIGEON FORGE, Tenn.—Tom and Barb Hansen’s search for a retirement spot reads like the script to a road movie. California’s...
Gas-Engine Bans Drive Landscapers Toward Electric Mowers and Blowers
A push to go electric is sowing discord among landscapers.New state and municipal laws are driving a transition away from...
Homeowner Groups Seek to Stop Investors From Buying Houses to Rent
Small groups of neighborhood volunteers are blocking companies from buying single-family homes, rewriting homeownership rulebooks to thwart investor purchases of...
U.K. Inflation Hits Fresh Three-Decade High, Squeezing Household Budgets
The U.K.’s inflation rate rose to a fresh three-decade high in March, as energy prices surged following Russia’s invasion of...
Interest-Rate Surge Ripples Through Economy, From Homes to Car Loans
The Fed’s moves to chill inflation have driven up bond yields and many other borrowing costs linked to them. So...
Biden Extends Pause on Federal Student-Loan Payments Through August
WASHINGTON—President Biden on Wednesday extended through Aug. 31 the pause on payments of federal student loans, setting up a politically...
Student-Loan Freeze Saves Borrowers Nearly $200 Billion as Biden Considers Extension
Around 37 million federal student-loan borrowers were spared $195 billion in loan payments since the government froze their payments at...
Home Sales Fell in February Amid Tight Supply, Rising Mortgage Rates
Sales of previously owned homes declined in February as rising mortgage-interest rates and a shortage of homes for sale made...
Teens Find Rising Used-Car Prices Dash Hopes of First Car
Chase Smith had been saving for her first car long before she had a license to drive. But when the...
Why Collecting Vintage Watches Took Off During the Pandemic
One of the more common psychological side effects of the pandemic has been a distorted sense of time. With work...
The Hidden Ways Companies Raise Prices
Lettuce Entertain You Enterprises Inc., a Chicago-based restaurant group, has added a 3% “processing fee” to checks at many of...
Americans’ Finances Got Stronger in the Pandemic—Confounding Early Fears
The Covid-19 pandemic threatened to ruin Americans’ finances. For many, the opposite happened.Though initial shutdowns caused unemployment to surge to...
Airlines Prepare for Busy Travel Week Amid Omicron Surge
The rapid spread of the Omicron variant is looming over holiday travel, but airports are getting busier as travelers try...
Inside AMC’s Crazy, Bonkers, Upside-Down Year of Apes, Memes and Shorts
A mob rescued the world’s largest movie-theater chain from the edge of bankruptcy. It turned out to be only the...
I’ve Tried to Make Travel Better for 20 Years. Mostly It’s Gotten Worse.
I fear I’ve failed.When I started covering aviation, flights were expensive, delays were maddening and the coffee on Southwest Airlines...
