Shares with above-average yields and rising dividends may well offer the best returns in 2012.
Jalopy Nation? The Average Car on the Road Has Never Been Older
Even after a year when sales of new cars increased by nearly 11% compared to 2010, thereby lowering the average age of cars on the road, the typical automobile today is ancient compared to its counterpart in the mid-’90s. In …
Tebowing.com Founder Begins His Off-Season
With praying quarterback Tim Tebow and his Denver Broncos eliminated from the NFL playoffs this past weekend, Jared Kleinstein, 24, the founder of the Web site Tebowing.com and its parent company Tebowing LLC, finally has a …
Is India’s Government Killing its Economic Miracle?
In a recent special issue of TIME, I argued that India would eventually overtake China as the world’s premier emerging market. It’s a prediction that often produces snickers. How, skeptics ask, can India’s fractious …
The Big Winner of the Great Recession Is …
The recent recession has been the most brutal since the Great Depression and has caused enormous hardship for many American families, as well as immense financial problems for governments around the world. As a result, it’s hard …
What To Do If You Can’t Pay Your Student Loans
If you graduated college last spring, chances are over the winter holidays the government delivered a nice present to your door: your first student loan bill.
The Weird Ways Gender Ratios Affect Dating, Spending, Saving—and the Size of Your Engagement Ring
Men are known to go to great lengths—and great expense—to impress women. This is most obviously the case when the male population outnumbers that of females, and laws of supply and demand kick in.
8 Celebrity-Endorsed Financial Products We Wouldn’t Buy
Athletes, actors and other famous folks lend their recognizable faces to promote all sorts of products, from breakfast cereal to basketball sneakers to prepaid debit cards (see Suze Orman). But a celebrity endorsement is, of …
Tickets to New Batman Movie Go On Sale Six Months in Advance—And Sell Out
The new Batman sequel, The Dark Knight Rises, is easily one of the year’s most heavily anticipated movies. There aren’t that many films, after all, that could sell out shows six months before the movie debuts.
Would You Pay $2 Extra to Have a Whopper Delivered to Your Door?
Wendy’s was on track to boot Burger King off its perch as the No. 2 hamburger chain in the country, so the King is fighting back by stealing a page from pizza shops’ playbook: In four test markets, the brand is offering home …
A Lonely Voice Defending Private Equity
Over the last few weeks, the private equity industry has taken a verbal beating. Rivals of Republican frontrunner Mitt Romney have attacked his tenure leading Bain Capital, one of the industry’s most successful firms, portraying …
Italy Cruise Disaster: A Disaster for the Entire Cruise Industry
After seeing images of the Costa Concordia, which ran aground near an Italian island last week, killing at least five people, it’s understandable that a sizeable portion of the public is deciding that maybe cruising isn’t for …