President Donald Trump recently signed an executive order directing the Treasury secretary and Commerce secretary to compile a plan within 90 days for creating a U.S. sovereign wealth fund. We're ...

Social Security has long been a trusted source of retirement funds, keeping millions of seniors out of poverty by providing consistent, reliable lifetime income that is protected against inflation.

Social Security's retirement trust fund is on a path to insolvency in less than a decade, which would leave retirees facing an automatic 24% cut to their benefits if the trust fund is depleted, ...

In March 2025, a rumor emerged on multiple platforms, including Bluesky (archived), X (archived) and Reddit (archived), that the U.S. had an untouched $150 trillion "national trust fund" or "endowment ...

Two new surveys reveal broad misconceptions about how the Social Security program works, and where the money goes.