A record 34% of merchants now surcharge credit card transactions, but the legal limit changes wildly by state — banned outright in three, capped in a dozen others.

Escheatment is the legal process that hands your forgotten bank accounts, stocks and uncashed checks to the state after a few years of inactivity, and Sen. Elizabeth Warren says the dormancy clock is getting too short.

Formal performance write-ups are up nearly 30% since 2020. Workplace experts say performance improvement plans increasingly chart a documented path to a layoff, not a rescue.

Taxes, refinery geography, wholesale contracts and thin margins all stack up before a gallon of gas reaches the pump, which is why identical-looking stations a block apart can charge wildly different prices.

Nationally, drivers with spotless records are still seeing bills rise in 2026. The reasons have less to do with any one driver and more with regional risk, repair costs, and looming tariffs.

An empty seat is revenue an airline can never get back once the door closes, which is why carriers deliberately sell a few more tickets than they have seats.

The IRS doesn't recognize domestic partners as spouses, so employer-paid health coverage for a partner becomes taxable "imputed income" on your paycheck, unless the partner qualifies as your tax dependent.

If your 401(k) match fell short during the year, a true-up contribution, often paid the following February, is designed to make up the difference automatically.

One line on your utility statement pays for electricity that may never be generated. It is small, it is climbing, and it explains the grid better than kilowatt-hours do.

A fixed-rate loan with a payment that keeps climbing sounds like a contradiction. The culprit is the escrow account, and you have more choices than the letter suggests.

Your monthly payment jumped again after an escrow analysis. The shortfall usually is not a mistake, it is built into how the account works. Here is the mechanism, and what you can do about it.

More than 830,000 taxpayers got a letter saying their refund is approved but on hold. Here's what's actually driving the delays, and how to get unstuck faster.

Household power rates are up sharply in data-center states like Ohio and Virginia. Here's the mechanism turning the AI boom into a line on your bill, and what actually moves the number.

The fifth offer in 23 days finally moved easyJet's board. What Castlelake gets for £5.2bn, and why the deal needs a 51 percent European wrapper.

With 67 million people's power on the line, PJM leaned on paid demand cuts and data-center curtailments to keep the lights on through the heat.

As a heat dome pushed demand toward a grid record, Washington ordered data centers off the public network and onto their own generators, freeing up power to keep home air conditioners running.

Kroger will acquire family-owned Giant Eagle and its 197 supermarkets, its first big deal since the $25 billion Albertsons merger collapsed on antitrust grounds.

Strip out a one-off tariff recovery and the quarter looks flatter than the headline profit suggests, with China still shrinking.

The June reading cleared the 50 line that separates growth from contraction, but the expansion leans almost entirely on demand tied to the global AI boom.

The cable giant is cleaving its media empire from its pipes, betting two focused companies can do what one sprawling conglomerate could not.