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    The investing information provided on this page is for educational purposes only. NerdWallet, Inc. does not offer advisory or brokerage services, nor does it recommend or advise investors to buy or sell particular stocks, securities or other investments.The deadline for the U.S. to raise the debt ceiling is looming. If the U.S. defaults, it’s likely...

      On Wednesday, the U.S. House of Representatives voted to advance a proposal that could retroactively end the student loan payment pause, kill the president’s debt cancellation plan and potentially force hundreds of thousands of public servants to return forgiven debt to the government. But borrowers shouldn’t panic yet, because the proposal, pushed forward by Republican...

        A month ago, federal data showed relatively flat prices from February to March. Today's fresh figures tell a different story. This month’s personal consumption expenditures price index (PCE) suggests that inflation rose more sharply in April than in the preceding two months. The PCE increased 0.4% in April after rising 0.1% in March and 0.3%...

        President Joe Biden has made a deliberate decision to go quiet as his team gets down to the wire in the debt-limit talks, according to White House officials. It’s his view that speaking in public about negotiations does nothing to produce an outcome. The already voluble House Speaker Kevin McCarthy, by contrast, is especially chatty these days, as he aggressively tries to set the terms of the public debate. He's spoken with journalists at least a dozen times this week. Biden addressed the issue briefly on Thursday but has mostly stayed out of the spotlight.

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        The investing information provided on this page is for educational purposes only. NerdWallet, Inc. does not offer advisory or brokerage services, nor does it recommend or advise investors to buy or sell particular stocks, securities or other investments.Rates on savings accounts and certificates of deposit are seeing highs not seen for at least a decade....

        Speaker Kevin McCarthy said issues remain in negotiations with the Biden administration on raising the federal debt limit as the clock ticks down to the point when the US Treasury runs out of cash. 

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        With one of three major rating agencies warning that America’s AAA credit is at risk, the stakes are growing in the standoff in Washington over raising the nation’s debt limit. The rating agency Fitch has put the nation’s credit on “Rating Watch Negative,” which amounts to a warning that it might downgrade the U.S. credit as a result of the impasse. The government reached the $31.4 trillion debt limit in January, and Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen has resorted to “extraordinary measures’’ since then to keep paying the bills. But Yellen has warned that Treasury will likely run out of money to meet all its obligations as soon as June 1, which is being described as the “X-date.”

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        Welcome to NerdWallet’s Smart Money podcast, where we answer your real-world money questions.This week’s episode wraps up our nerdy deep dive into the broad effects of climate change on personal finances, with a focus on how to manage a natural disaster.Check out this episode on either of these platforms:Apple PodcastsSpotifyOur takeAre you ready for a...

        There are just days left before the government could run out of cash to pay its bills, and Americans like Scott Jester say they’re tired of partisan politics. “The criminal part of it is they are jazzing the whole world up over an issue that could be resolved very quickly, if they did their …

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