No Joke
By Steve PiontekIt's obvious from the fight that's going on in Congress over whether to even form a Consumer Protection Agency and where to put it that American consumers have a major problem.
March 11, 2010
Despite crash, home equity is still valuableAlthough the housing bubble decimated home values, housing equity is still an important part of boomers' portfolios. The Center for Retirement Research found that after...
March 11, 2010
The (middle) kids are all rightA recent study from the MetLife Mature Market Institute calls boomers born between 1952 and 1958 the "middle child" of the boomer generation. Despite being...
March 11, 2010
Study: Confidence stable, but savings are downWhile retirement confidence appears to be stabilizing, preparedness is still dwindling. A study by the Employee Benefits Research Institute found 16 percent of pre-retirees are...
March 11, 2010
Obama's school of hard knocksI'll try to keep my schadenfreude in check. College students are finally getting the Econ 101 lesson they deserve, but it's coming from outside the...
March 10, 2010
EBRI's RCS Survey: Workers Postpone Retirement, Saving Less & ConfusedAmericans' preparations for retirement continue to decline, according to the 2010 Retirement Confidence Survey (RCS) released March 9 by the nonpartisan Employee Benefit Research Institute and Mathew Greenwald and Associates, a market research firm.
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