Economic View: Are You Better Off Than You Were 4 Years Ago? Do You Care?
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Despite an apparently imminent slowdown, economic policy and the general state of the economy have hardly made it onto the evening news of late.
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The U.S. economy grew slightly faster than previously estimated in the first quarter, but still at the weakest pace in more than four years and inflation was higher as well, data on Thursday showed.
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Welcome back to 1998 From Wall St to Silicon Valley, experienced finanical types and entrepreneurs are privately conceding the obvious: we're in a tech bubble. The only doubts are over whether we are in 1998 or 1999 again.â¦
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The beginning of the year is traditionally a time to look back, and, for the brave of heart, to make a few predictions looking forward.  Lacking the requisite bravery, I'll just quote something that the Economist wrote recently: Rejoice: the embrace of âopennessâ by firms that have grown fat on closed, proprietary technology is something weâll see more of in 2008.  Now, had this "fearless prediction" been made a year ago, I would have been impressed, because 2007 has turned out to be the year when everyone, it seems, wants to be open. read more
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How does your portfolio compare with that of the average affluent American?
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Q A friend gave me an article you had written about personal finance. You used a schoolteacher as an example, showing how we can make bad choices in our attempt to save money. I have been using a manager for about 10 years, but I now know he is probably not a good choice since he has front-load investing and ...
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No, tell us how you really feel. This Labor Day, workers are saying their biggest work problems are mostly economic. Their pay is not keeping up with increasing health-care costs or other increases in living expenses. They are disgruntled enough to look for work on the job. Retirement "security"...
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WASHINGTON - Money may not buy happiness, but for many people it apparently puts a down payment on satisfaction.    People who make more than $75,000 a year are far more likely than those who make $25,000 or less to say are "very satisfied" with their lives - 56 percent of the higher-income group compared with 24 percent of the lower-income group, according to Associated Press polling...
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Ever since we were married 35 years ago, my wife, Georgina, and I have faithfully tracked our savings. But now that we're in our 60s and semiretired, what matters most to us is not how much we have saved but how much reliable income we can receive for life.
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Do you have a personal investment policy? If so, you knew how to behave these past four months. If not, you voyaged from "should I sell?" to "too late to sell now" to "what stock market? I'm too busy playing Second Life." When equities rise again, you'll claim that your strategy always has been t...
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Many working families still feel no benefit from the US economic recovery, the Economic Policy Institute says. While business is improving, average wages have fallen, job satisfaction has declined and the
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The U.S. economy grew slightly better than first estimated in the first quarter, but still at the weakest pace in more than four years and inflation grew as well, data on Thursday showed.
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IF YOU were reading the dailies in the 1970s, you soon learned a new word: stagflation - inflation even as the economy stagnates. Like oil and water, they weren&#39;t supposed to mix: recession was corrected by
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Ask yourself whether you live on the brink of financial disaster.
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Unearthing values in the post-bubble wreckage.
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Learn what percent of your income you're spending on things.
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You know who's responsible for that financial angst you're suffering &#150; that uncomfortable feeling that you should be earning, and spending, more, only you can't? No, not your stingy employer or the IRS, but worse. People who are theoretically on your side: your friends, co-workers, and neighbors. Your financial satisfaction, research shows, has less to do with your own bank ...