With Americans increasingly concerned about high grocery prices, experts suggest meal planning and using apps like TooGoodToGo to keep household food costs down.

Worth more than $14T, Silicon Valley may be getting too expensive for future founders.

Fast-food prices have increased more over the past 10 years than both full-service restaurants and inflation.

The word 'coupon' comes from a French word meaning 'to cut.'

American Express intentionally targets wealthy cardholders, who spend higher amounts per transaction and tend to make more transactions than the average cardholder, thereby reducing the company's risk.

Listen to a podcast episode that explains how the Chinese discount e-commerce retailer Temu became one of the most downloaded apps in the US.

After emancipation, many slaves went from working for free to working for tips.

Read about 'skiplagging,' a money-saving travel hack.

Contrary to popular belief, random investments can outperform managed funds.

Tariffs once fueled the US economy, historically serving as a primary source of revenue and a means to protect domestic industries.

Use this interactive tool to see which occupations have the highest and lowest divorce rates.

For everyday Americans, a relatively high national debt can lead to higher interest rates on financial products such as mortgages.

In a 'K-shaped' economy, higher earners' spending rises while lower earners' spending stagnates or decreases.

The Securities and Exchange Commission was created during the Great Depression to restore public trust in financial markets after the 1929 crash.

Meet a government agent who laundered millions of dollars for Pablo Escobar.

Dollar stores tend to be smaller in size than other retail stores—and some think it's so customers can see all the products faster, increasing their likelihood of finding something they want to buy.

Visualize America's retirement savings by age, with the median retirement savings for Americans being $87K as of May 2024.

A third of Americans don't have the cash they need to cover a $500 emergency, according to a 2023 Federal Reserve survey.

See Walt Disney's corporate strategy document from 1957, complete with a plethora of Mickey Mouse illustrations.

Nearly half of the discretionary funding in the US is allocated to national defense.

Watch what would happen if you literally had all the money in the world.

At just over $1K, Mississippi has the lowest average weekly wage in the country.

Around 60% of female billionaires in the US are considered self-made—meaning at least some of their wealth comes from a business venture launched on their own (paywall may apply).

Learn about loopholes in the American tax code, which involve everything from cat food to death to heavy machinery.

Listen to the details of Henry Ford's widely speculated affair and secret child.

Over a century ago, fewer than 1% of Americans paid income taxes—but the cost of World War II prompted the federal government to greatly expand the number of people required to pay income taxes.

Nearly half of billionaires planned to increase exposure to direct private equity investments in 2026.

Retrospekt is one of many companies making money by flipping old, fan-favorite technology like Polaroids, cassette tapes, and Tamagotchis.

See a web of circular investments among major AI industry players like Nvidia and OpenAI, as many top AI companies provide significant investments to one another.

Watch a man who counterfeited over $1M explain how to counterfeit money—including information about the materials and processes required to make fake money and how to spot a fake banknote.

Watch a video that visualizes what really happens inside a credit card network when you make a purchase.

Southwest Airlines was profitable for nearly 5 decades, offering free whisky, cheap late-night tickets, and free-for-all seating allocation—despite how hard it is to make money running an airline.

There's a group of people hunting down the remaining Sears and Roebuck homes, the DIY houses built from kits Sears once sold in its famous catalog.

Watch this video to find out how Taylor Swift became a billionaire from her musical empire.

See a breakdown of the bestselling visual art media—from paintings, which account for about 59% of all fine art dealer sales, to sculptures, which account for roughly 15%.

Use this mortgage calculator to estimate how much you can borrow, factoring in fundamentals such as financial standing, property cost, loan length, and more.

The 'Lindy effect' is a theory that says the longer things that don't physically wear out (like ideas, brands, or institutions) have been around, the more likely they are to exist for longer.

See a breakdown of every state's portion of the entire US gross domestic product.

The private credit industry offers nonbank loans directly to businesses, particularly privately held midmarket companies.

Tom Petty used bankruptcy to change the music industry after resolving a dispute over how a label was treating him as an artist and self-producing an album that racked up $500K in debt.

The Anthropic Economic Index shows AI adoption is highest in computer science roles.

Some Ivy Leagues are worth billions of dollars, managing massive endowments to support their operations and investing donations for long-term growth rather than spending them.

See America's top companies by revenue in 1994 versus 2023—Sears isn't on the 2023 list, while Amazon isn't in the 1994 edition.

'Tulip mania,' the 1630s Dutch craze where rare bulbs were briefly traded like luxury assets, may have been the first financial bubble—and it still shapes markets today.

A successful angel investor can multiply their investment by 3 to 10 times.

Certificates of deposit are low-risk savings tools that offer a stable way to grow your money over time.

If the US government paid off its debt, it could disrupt the entire bond market, as Treasury bonds are among the most common bonds for investors and the majority of the national debt is in bonds.

Much of Estée Lauder's success stemmed from her laser focus on serving her target market: wealthy women who saw beauty as an investment.

See which Apple products drive the most of its $391B revenue.