When Fed Chief Ben Bernanke said he would hold short-term interest rates near zero for at least two more years, the stock market, at least initially, whooped it up. In the middle of the party, though, millions of retirees …
With stocks tanking and nest eggs cracking, retirement is clearly less affordable. Why, then, has there been a surge in folks calling it quits?
When times get tough, big banks and auto companies have the government to bail them out. Kids have their grandparents.
A lot of folks nearing retirement still have a traditional pension. But a new study suggests they don't know how to figure it into their plans. Here's a start.
A sinking dollar may be great for parts of the U.S. economy but it sure is tough on certain investors and retirees. Here's how to deal with the fallout.
I never thought it would happen. I’ve been throwing away credit card offers addressed to my daughter for years. But now that she’s 21, entering her senior year of college, I figured it was time for her to experience plastic, …
On the heels of a federal debt deal that no one really wants comes news that tiny Central Falls, R.I., (population: 18,716) has landed in bankruptcy court. City fathers cannot pay retirement benefits promised to municipal …
At a reception this past weekend for former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger, who is promoting his new book, On China, the onetime statesman said he had never seen Democrats and Republicans so at odds. It wasn’t hyperbole. He …
