Money

The view of housing most people carry around with them has its roots in the 1950s. In those days housing was frequently collocated with jobs and factories that no longer…

Sometimes there’s no way to put a happy spin on the economic news and this is one of those times. The Royal Bank of Scotland issued this simple assessment of…

There’s news from the stock market and it’s all bad. The best news from the first week of trading in the new year is that the market can’t fall any…

There was general agreement among analysts that 2016 was not going to be a great year for stocks. Yet nothing prepared investors for the brutal reality of the first week…

Nearly two-thirds of Americans are a single missed paycheck away from financial disaster. The math is straightforward and brutal; it’s all about the odds. Roughly four in ten Americans are…

You can’t see inflation and, in the last few decades, you haven’t even been able to feel it. That’s because inflation is an expert at camouflage. Inflation knows how to…

I’m not sure why people wait for the end of the year to make resolutions; the time to make a resolution is the moment you realize there’s a problem. Be…

For much of the most productive era in American history the middle class was the dominant force in the country. The nation was so aligned along that center of the…

In these days of 5% unemployment the dark days of 2008 and 2009 are largely a distant memory. For many young people in the workforce today, those days passed blissfully…

It looks as though we’re going to need to modify the old saying about the rich getting richer to the rich are paying off debt while the poor are racking…