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Pension Act Boosts Retirement Savings Participation – But Will Those Savings Be Safe?
Thursday, December 1, 2011 - I’ve always been skeptical of Social Security, especially now when the government is this close to saying that it can’t fulfill its promises to upcoming retirees. Retirement savings plans, however, seem to be chugging along quite nicely...
Is America Still a Good Place to Invest In?
Sunday, November 27, 2011 - Short answer: YES.
I know our economy’s a bit rocky right now and that we might have to weather a few more years of hardships, but America’s not the type of country to stay down for long. Already our national economy is growing at 2% a year...
Seeing Through the Sales Talk of “Finance Gurus”
Thursday, November 24, 2011 - The word “guru” should normally a sense of wisdom and expertise, but what happens when you have a few dozen gurus directly contradicting each other? Worse still, what happens when you’re mesmerized by a self-professed guru that makes powerful,...
Occupy Movement to “Default on Student Loans”
Wednesday, November 23, 2011 - The Occupy movement is running a so-called “Occupy Student Debt” campaign with the aim of gathering a million student loan debtors to default in defiance a higher education system that “saddles college students with debt.”
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Cain Served as Board in Settles Due to Retirement-Asset Problems
Monday, November 21, 2011 - I know this blog is not meant a political one, but I’ll make an exception – especially since one of our presidential candidates was part of the board of a Midwest utility company that settled for $10.5 million on claims that it “failed...
80 is the new 65
Thursday, November 17, 2011 - A national survey by Wells Fargo & Co. has shown that 25% of respondents will need to work until 80 to save up the money to retire comfortably.
Other insights revealed by the study shows that 75% expect to work past retirement, 39% need...
John Travolta and the Papandreou Tango
Tuesday, November 1, 2011 - The erstwhile Greek Prime Minister launched a volley across the most unlikely of cordiale ententes today. Reminding the assembling masses – no doubt packing suitcases for a late autumn jolly in Cannes - that Demos remains pivotal.
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Emperor’s Clothes Swapped for Naked Shorts
Saturday, October 29, 2011 - Opinion remained broadly mixed on the touted resolution of the European crisis reached late on Wednesday. Equity markets were the only expressors of unanimity. Gains of 2-3% were largely registered from the Nikkei to the Dow. In itself, hardly...
Affability vs Fraction: Eurocrisis Reaches Point of No Return
Sunday, October 23, 2011 - The turncoat responsibilities and reliabilities of world economies are once again fully at the fore.
What has happened over the last six weeks is that politics – not econometrics – has reached pivotal point. The ‘interconnectedness’...
What Can Turn an Entrepreneur Into Another Steve Jobs?
Friday, October 14, 2011 - When Steve Jobs’ death certificate was released, his family wrote down “entrepreneur” as his occupation. Rhonda Abrams of USA Today and “office neighbor” of Jobs explores the factors that allowed the Apple icon to thrive and be creative:
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