economy

It’s called the “gig economy” and roughly one-third of U.S. workers fall into that category. Those are people who consider themselves independent contractors, freelancers, small business owners and temps. An…

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…

The bull market has been going strong for the last six years but, like any engine that’s running red hot, at some point something is going to break. We may…

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…

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…

One thing you can count right around this time of year is a series of gloomy economic forecasts. There’s a reason one of the stock market’s favorite witticisms is “sell…

It’s not your imagination. If you feel you’ve been paying more these days and not actually getting more, there is plenty of new data out to support what your checking…

If you thought the volatility in the first month of 2015 has been wild so far, that was just the warm up act. This week promises to bring even more…

One of the more frustrating aspects to investing is that there are many counter-intuitive forces at work in the economic world. One of those developments that’s hard for people to…

By the officially accepted standard, the U.S. is now the number two economy in the world. To be sure there are people now arguing that the standard isn’t fair or…