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Pamela de la Fuente leads NerdWallet’s consumer credit and debt team. Her team covers credit scores, credit reports, identity protection and ways to avoid, manage and eliminate debt. Previously, she led taxes and retirement coverage at NerdWallet. She has been a writer and editor for more than 20 years.Pamela joined NerdWallet after working at companies including Hallmark Cards, Sprint Corp. and The Kansas City Star.She is a thought leader in content diversity, equity, inclusion and belonging, and finds ways to make every piece of content conversational and accessible to all.She is a graduate of the Maynard Institute’s Maynard 200 program,…

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Meet Mike Noland, one of the winners of NerdWallet’s Debt-Free December sweepstakes.We talked to Mike to find out how he feels about the win and what he plans to do with the money.Responses have been edited for length and clarity.Q: Tell us a little bit about yourself.A: I live in New Orleans. I do valet downtown — we just had the Super Bowl and we just had Taylor Swift come through. I like doing valet. I work overnight, and I do Uber during the day. It’s cool working downtown and meeting new people. Photo courtesy of Mike Noland. Q: What…

Last Updated: Dec. 18, 2025 at 7:18 p.m. ETFirst Published: Dec. 18, 2025 at 9:03 a.m. ETJust 2½ years ago, Nvidia stunned Wall Street with a quarterly forecast that was billions of dollars above the consensus view. On Wednesday afternoon, Micron did the same.The company’s expectation for $18.7 billion in February-quarter revenue at the midpoint, well above the $14.3 billion consensus view, has analysts drawing comparisons to Nvidia NVDA and coming to view Micron MU as a major beneficiary of the artificial-intelligence boom.

A new analysis of patterns of mental health care access for people switching from Medicare Advantage (MA) to Original Medicare (OM) shows a small but meaningful increase in mental health care use after the switch. This may reveal that the networks for mental health practitioners in MA plans are inadequate. People Accessed More Mental Health Care in Original Medicare The researchers followed a sampling of MA enrollees who had at least one mental health visit, then switched to OM and had at least one mental health visit. The analysis revealed that the switchers accessed more mental health care in OM,…

Dec. 31 will mark more than the end of 2025. Barring a holiday miracle, enhanced subsidies that have enabled millions of Americans to afford health insurance through the Affordable Care Act marketplace will also end when the clock hits midnight.The “enhanced premium tax credits,” enacted during the pandemic in 2021 and extended in 2022, have helped more than double ACA enrollment to more than 24 million Americans in 2025. Currently, 93% of enrollees benefit from subsidies that offset some or all of their premium, according to the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services.» Stay informed: Check out our news hub…

Published: Dec. 18, 2025 at 6:28 p.m. ETTikTok’s top executive announced to employees that ByteDance, the social-media juggernaut’s parent company, has signed deals to create a U.S. joint venture majority-owned by U.S. companies, Bloomberg News reported late Thursday.Agreements with Oracle ORCL, tech-focused investment firm Silver Lake and MGX, an arm of Abu Dhabi’s sovereign-wealth fund, have been signed, Bloomberg said, citing an internal memo from TikTok CEO Shou Chew that it had reviewed.

Lawmakers are set to leave Washington this week for the holidays, without extending the expiring Affordable Care Act (ACA) tax subsidies. With millions of people facing dramatic health care cost spikes if those credits end January 1, a recent KFF polling and data compilation offers context on health care cost burdens, underscoring the importance of meaningful access to affordable, high-quality coverage. Millions already struggle with health care affordability: Nearly half of adults say it is difficult to afford their health care costs. Among those under age 65, uninsured adults are much more likely to have trouble affording care (82%) than…

(Image credit: Getty Images)A belated but better-than-expected read on still-spotty consumer price data was enough to support a relief rally for the stock market on Thursday. Strong earnings and guidance from a major player in the AI revolution provided a fresh bounce for a beleaguered technology sector and elevated the risk-on mood.Core inflation has cooled to its lowest level since early 2021, according to the November CPI report. The Consumer Price Index (CPI) increased at an annual rate of 2.7% through November and 0.2% from September to November, the Bureau of Labor Statistics said before the opening bell.Core CPI, which…

In This Article This article is presented by Rent To Retirement. When I bought my first rental property, I thought I needed to be there to see it in person. I pictured myself walking the neighborhood, pretending I knew what I was looking at while searching for “what does a good roof look like.” I imagined chatting with contractors, shaking hands with property managers, and doing the whole boots-on-the-ground thing. Then I learned you can scale a portfolio from your kitchen table. At that point, being there in person felt more optional than ever. Investing across the country used to…