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A Spending Hiatus

A Spending Hiatus

The economic headlines these days are far from uplifting: The unemployment rate is currently 9.5%.  That's a 26-year high, and will likely continue to rise. An average of 5.4 people are vying for each available job opening Broken out by age, gender, and ethnicity......

Sarah Palin: Take This Job And Shove It!

Sarah Palin: Take This Job And Shove It!

Is Sarah Palin laughing all the way to the bank?  Perhaps. And if so, feminists of all political persuasions should high-five themselves. I don't say this lightly.  When it comes to public policy, I disagree with virtually everything Sarah Palin has to say (and that's...

Target-Date Funds Under Fire

Target-Date Funds Under Fire

The Securities Exchange Commission and Department of Labor are taking aim at target-date retirement funds. This is a fight worth watching because target-date funds are a great way to save yourself from yourself when it comes to building your retirement nest egg. If...

Retirement, Recalibrated

Retirement, Recalibrated

I love shocking statistics.  Especially when they relate back to personal finance. So as I was reading a recent column by the always thought-provoking Scott Burns, this line jumped out at me: "The fastest-growing population group in America isn’t the young: It is...

Rebooting America

Rebooting America

There is something oddly poetic about launching this blog in the same week that General Motors filed for bankruptcy . Who would have thought that this 100 year-old iconic American company would not only be dropped from the Dow Jones Industrial Average but also face...