Many people are finding the holiday tradition of making charitable donations difficult again this year, particularly if they're unemployed or worried about the economy. Charities, many of which norma

Over the last year it's become abundantly clear that the stock market can devastate even seemingly healthy retirement accounts. Even so, with the guaranteed income of traditional pensions disappearin

1. The Worst is Behind UsIn the 1974 film Dirty Mary, Crazy Larry, the title characters spend an hour and a half eluding a small-town country sheriff in a helicopter with a 1968 Dodge Charger before

I’ve been in South America this week, speaking nine times in five days, interspersed with lots of meetings. The conversation kept coming back to the prospects for the dollar, but I was just as

You say you got a real solution well, you know We'd all love to see the plan You ask me for a contribution well, you know We're doing what we can- Revolution, The BeatlesI settled into my turret on t

UK Economy Contracts Again The UK’s longest recession in a generation continues. Britain’s Office for National Statistics said today the economy shrank 0.4% in the period from July throug

Earnings season is set to get in full gear this week, and a number of companies are likely to report significant sequential-revenue gains due to a quarter-on-quarter drop in the US dollar, so say ana

Many baby boomers spent too much time listening to rock lyrics that said “live for today and don’t worry about tomorrow,” which has plunged them into financial trouble and is delayi

“Everything that can be counted does not necessarily count; everything that counts cannot necessarily be counted.” -Albert EinsteinWe often say time and price are the arbiters of our

If you have a job and it’s not in jeopardy, pull out the party hat and toot your horn. The OECD calls an end to the global recession.  “The global downturn was effectively declare