The battle of the billionaires is on as the Mark Zuckerberg-led company Meta launched Threads, a new "conversation" app and direct challenger to Elon Musk’s Twitter. 

In roughly 24 hours, over 30 million subscribers signed up, according to Zuckerberg. The launch was also met with a threat of legal action from Musk. 

Regardless, will these new users translate to growth for the social media giant? 

Exchange-traded funds (ETFs) can be a good hedge against inflation.

Such funds, which can include a basket of thousands of individual securities, offer all the liquidity of a stock and the diversity of a mutual fund while offering protection against inflationary pressures and a weakened U.S. dollar.

As tax season approaches, it's important to know the 2023 Federal Tax Facts and Figures. You can download the PDF below.

Stocks are rallying in the new year, surprising some market observers whose expectations were low following the worst year for equities since 2008, fueled by ongoing inflation and an economic downturn.

There’s no doubt about it. Filing for Social Security can be daunting. There’s a ton of information – and misinformation – to weed through, as well as the need for some calculations based on several variables. Your benefits depend on your age, how long you’ve worked, what you earned, your marital status and your number of dependents. It seems like you have to factor in everything but your IQ…

Tuesday was the summer solstice, the longest day of the year and the beginning of the astronomical summer. The day is thought of as the perfect time of year as Americans get as many as eight additional hours of sunlight relative to the shortest day of the year in December, and temperatures are mild relative to the heat and humidity of July and August…

This is a question that economists are asked every time there is market turbulence. My instinctive answer is that the stock market is not the economy, which is also an easy answer to give, considering that markets are more forward looking than economists’ data points. But it is also true that markets have been wrong before and are prone to overreact to news that may or may not have consequences for economic activity…