French draft budget caps spending growth to satisfy EU despite rising debt burden

For six months, investors had a playbook: when Trump threatens Iran, buy the dip, because he always backs down. But in September, the playbook stopped working.

Kent Long wanted passive income. The problem? All those gurus and guides online were only selling a fantasy. The one thing that seemed to actually generate income: real estate. When a property that could easily be split into two units came on the market, Kent jumped at the chance. Little did he know this $14,000…

A young mother was nearly wiped out of $1.2 million in a settlement redirection scam, with a single extra letter in the email address standing between buying a property and losing everything. A Western Australian Westpac banker has stopped a $1.2 million transfer to a sophisticated payment redirection scam, in which only an extra letter…

Three-quarters of Americans (75%) feel in control of their day-to-day finances, according to NerdWallet’s August Financial Resilience Index, indicating that many feel an overall sense of financial security. But the index also finds that a third of Americans (33%) couldn’t cover an unexpected $1,000 expense, and around the same percentage (36%) say they’ll have to…

The Davis Companies won a UCC foreclosure auction for embattled mall mogul Mike Kohan’s Garment District office building, despite a last-ditch attempt by a group of Great Neck investors to stop the sale. In a lawsuit filed Tuesday against the mezzanine lender The Davis Companies, 17 investors in a Kohan-controlled entity, most from the ritzy…

Sometimes under-the-radar luxury comes with a bold spotlight—as it does in Sevierville, TN, the hometown of late country icon Dolly Parton. Sevierville, the seat of Sevier County, sits about 40 minutes southeast of Knoxville, in the northern foothills of the Great Smoky Mountains. The legendary songstress was famously raised with 11 siblings in a one-bedroom…