Discern Money

Rep. Ilhan Omar’s latest financial disclosure amendment has done little to quiet the questions swirling around her household’s sudden rise from modest means to apparent multimillionaire status. The Minnesota Democrat, long a vocal critic of wealth inequality and a champion of socialist policies, now finds herself explaining away a reported...

In today’s economy, healthcare costs remain one of the biggest threats to financial stability and family security. Americans work hard to build a better life, yet rising medical expenses can quickly erode savings, force tough trade-offs, and even push families toward debt or bankruptcy. Medical bills continue to rank as...

The March Consumer Price Index report, released Friday morning by the Bureau of Labor Statistics, carried the kind of headline that tends to end conversations before they begin: consumer prices rose 3.3 percent over the past year, the fastest pace in some time. Predictably, opponents of the administration reached for...