A dead weight. An albatross. The biggest regret of her life. Dottie Orzechowski has never known adulthood without student loan payments. After working as a health and physical education teacher at a ...

The Trump administration is considering a rule that, if approved, would cut monthly federal benefits meant to support disabled adults and indigent older people who live with family members. ProPublica ...

Defaults are creeping higher and yields are slipping lower in loans made by Ares Capital Corp., the nearly $30 billion publicly traded private-credit fund run by Ares Management. Non-accruing loans ...

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Fred Trump III kept silent for years about his uncle, former president Donald Trump. And when his sister, Mary L. Trump, wrote a 2020 bestseller calling their uncle “the world’s most dangerous man,” ...

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Over the past year, the number of payment-in-kind and “deferred interest schemes” among distressed middle-market borrowers has materially increased, driving an acceleration in default rates, according ...

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As Josh D’Amaro prepares to take the helm at Disney later today, he put some of his emotions and plans into a memo to staff today obtained by Deadline, saying he is “humbled and honored to help write ...

Morgan Stanley says defaults in private credit could jump toward COVID-era highs. The bank sees loan defaults being driven by AI's disruptive effects on the software sector. Software accounts for ...

WASHINGTON, March 6 (Reuters) - The default rate among U.S. corporate borrowers of private credit rose to a record 9.2% in 2025, according to a report Friday by credit rating agency ‌Fitch Ratings. In ...