"economy"

The jobs market in the U.S. is as good as it’s been in decades. Layoff notices are at lows not seen since the 1970s. The steady improvement in employment numbers …

The stock market is definitely not for the faint of heart in August. The entire month has been a pretty steady beat down, interrupted briefly by one of the biggest …

The recent stock market gyrations can be disconcerting, particularly when you’re worried about being able to retire. Yet the very forces that made the stock market so disturbing for some …

The stock market this week is not for the faint of heart. Markets shed nearly $1.8 trillion in wealth over the span of three trading days. You have to go …

It’s been a good run for the stock market, staging one of the greatest comebacks in market history and becoming the third longest bull market since 1900. Unfortunately the other …

It would probably surprise no one to find out that retirees are overall happier in retirement than they were during their working years. According to multiple studies, roughly 77 percent …

A surprising number of Americans have little in the way of investments and a sad number have none at all. One has to wonder how the non-investing fraction of our fellow …

It always comes as a surprise how fast either a bull or bear market mentality can take hold in the media. A year, two years and, all of a sudden, …

The U.S. and China are at war, only it’s not with guns, bombs and missiles. You won’t see burned out homes on television or streams of refugees leaving cities but …

This is a headline that most people would agree is long overdue. One of the frustrating aspects to the Great Recession of 2007/2008 is that while corporate profits and executive …