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Dan Shepard

Managing Editor

  • Expertise: Personal finance, news, student loans, personal loans and debt, small business
  • Education: SUNY Plattsburgh

 


Dan Shepard is the managing editor for studies and surveys at LendingTree. The studies and surveys team creates precise and concise data-driven content that informs and explains about Americans’ financial lives.

Before joining LendingTree, Dan worked for Student Loan Hero as a copy editor. The longtime journalist has also worked for the Schenectady (N.Y.) Daily Gazette, Bleacher Report, Philly.com, the Philadelphia Daily News, the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette and the Utica (N.Y.) Observer-Dispatch.

Dan earned a bachelor’s degree from SUNY Plattsburgh in New York.

Articles by Dan Shepard

Venmo, Other Third-Party Payment Apps Required to Report Business Transactions Greater Than $600

If you’re a business that accepts payments through apps like Venmo or PayPal, get ready for more record-keeping — and maybe even a higher tax... read more

More Than 14 Million Households Across U.S. Don’t Have Internet

In 1983, 1.4% of U.S. adults reported using the internet in their homes. Today, nearly 86% of U.S. households have some type of internet subscription.... read more

How to Plan a Road Trip in Your New Electric Vehicle

With gas prices near record highs, answering the call of the open road in an electric vehicle (EV) is much less expensive, but you’ll need... read more

ARMageddon? Number of Adjustable-Rate Mortgages Offered to Borrowers Has More Than Tripled Since 2021

Through the early 2000s prior to the 2007-2009 financial crisis — also known as the Great Recession — adjustable-rate mortgages (ARMs) were quite common. In... read more

75% of Parents Stressed About Paying for Back-to-School Shopping, Up 12% From Last Year

The back-to-school season may happen every year, but that doesn’t mean attitudes toward it will remain the same — especially amid a years-long pandemic. The... read more

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