Conspiracy theories about advertisers secretly listening to our phones have been around for years. Now, three companies are in trouble for allegedly pretending they could do just that. The Federal Trade Commission announced Thursday that Cox Media Group and two ...

A well-funded fintech startup called Parker has filed for bankruptcy and effectively shut down its operations, marking another high-profile failure in the sector. What just happened Parker, which offered corporate credit cards and banking services for e‑commerce businesses, filed for ...

Delaware keeps ranking at or near the top for foreclosure rates because of a mix of math, policy, and affordability issues: a small housing stock that amplifies per‑unit rates, a slow judicial foreclosure system, big jumps in property taxes and ...

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 ...

Credit card debt in the United States fell by $25 billion in early 2026, dipping to $1.25 trillion by the end of Q1, but this positive development masks a far more troubling trend emerging in the private credit market. According ...

The FCC has extended the comment and reply comment deadlines in its offshore call center oversight rulemaking, giving stakeholders additional time beyond the original 30/60‑day schedule tied to Federal Register publication of the Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (NPRM). What this ...

The U.S. Supreme Court has declined to hear Meta’s appeal in a Vermont case accusing Instagram of being designed to be addictive for young users, so the state’s lawsuit will now move forward in Vermont courts. What the Supreme Court ...

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 ...

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 ...