The fastest-growing mortgage delinquency has been concentrated in a band of Southern and some Midwestern states, with recent data pointing especially to Mississippi, Louisiana, Arizona, Indiana, Iowa, Texas, Florida, South Carolina, Georgia, and parts of Florida/Minnesota counties as seeing the ...

Scholars discuss the economic impacts and legality of the FTC’s now-defunct ban on noncompetes. A sweeping Biden-era rule banning non-compete agreements with workers promised to generate thousands of new businesses annually, increase worker wages, slash health care costs, and fuel ...

With the rate of mortgage delinquency rising in most states, WalletHub released its updated report on the "States Where Mortgage Delinquency Is Increasing the Most" to show where home loans have become least affordable from Q4 2025 to Q1 2026 ...

SALT LAKE CITY (KUTV) — More Americans are turning to buy now, pay later loans, or BNPL, to cover purchases — including groceries — as rising costs continue to strain household budgets. While BNPL can help people who are short ...

The FTC has announced a settlement requiring Cox Media Group and two partner firms to pay about 930,000 dollars and accept extensive conduct restrictions after allegedly deceiving advertisers about an AI-powered “Active Listening” ad-targeting service that supposedly used smart-device conversations ...

The amount of unpaid loans being handled by Turkey’s debt collection companies rose 68 percent in a year to 132 billion lira, a sign that more people are falling behind on bank loans as borrowing costs remain high, the BirGün ...

Skyrocketing inflation, collapsing purchasing power, and growing uncertainty are devastating markets, forcing layoffs and closures across Iran As Iran’s economic crisis deepens, soaring prices, collapsing purchasing power, and growing uncertainty about the future are pushing businesses across the country into ...

New York Assemblywoman Jenifer Rajkumar has introduced the Fee Relief Act (A10912), legislation aimed at protecting New Yorkers from mounting penalties and interest charges that can turn relatively small unpaid state fees, tolls, or fines into overwhelming debt. According to ...

Pope Leo XIV’s new encyclical, Magnifica Humanitas, arrives at a moment of profound uncertainty about the future of human work and human purpose. The document is formally rooted in Catholic social teaching, but its central questions belong to everyone: What ...