Listening to "financial astrologers" causes investors to jump in and out of the markets, usually at the wrong times. It's great for the securities industry. It's terrible for investors, most of whom would be better off if they never invested.
Our great recession will not end until the 14 million unemployed Americans return to work. A solution will not come from God, or China or even the IMF and World Bank. One route may lie with one of our strongest and closest partners: Canada.
You might be surprised to learn that more and more of the dollars you pay for coverage are being sucked into a kind of black hole. It doesn't really disappear, of course.
In light of the size of the problem, its cause, and duration, the most obvious, efficient, and effective way to secure jobs for the mass of the unemployed is to have the government hire them.
If the choice for salvaging the American economy is between Republican snake oil and the puff ball proposals of the president's CEO-laden jobs council, America will be in deeper and deeper trouble. And so will the president.
Who is your financial role model: Elmo or Cookie Monster? That was the headline I was greeted with when I logged on to Moneyland, Time Inc.'s new personal-finance website.
Having a social media platform for communicating is extremely important for the success of your publicity campaigns. The tools presented in this list can make communicating your messages on target and easy to manage.
The government should stop its immigrant witch hunt and start focusing on real solutions. What we need is verification of workplace safety and effective enforcement of wage and hour laws.
The marginal productivity of debt -- all debt that is consumer, corporate and government -- is producing less and less of national income.
Although it may come as a shock to both the Republican and Tea parties, apparently providing religious services to troops is not an 'inherently governmental' function.
It's been less than two weeks since a guerilla campaign by local activists managed to restore about 20 percent from $131 million in budget cuts targeting Washington, D.C.'s neediest residents.
A real friend would tell a guy like LeBron James that he is really messing up his image and his brand. But his yes-men entourage never will. They don't want to get kicked off the gravy train.
If our identity comes from what surrounds us, we will always suffer the fear of losing it. Knowing who you are, regardless of your circumstances -- could actually save your life one day.
The Star Wars series captured the public's imagination because it dealt with right and wrong in three-dimensional way. Life, the films seemed to say in the end, is more complicated than just 'good guys' and 'bad guys.' So is the economy.
Combine the limitations of a finite planet and dubious correlation between wealth and happiness, and you see we're overdue for a bit of a recalibration.
The overriding policy objective in the United States must be a stable and healthy financial system that supports the American economy without imposing unnecessary risks and costs on its citizens.
What is managed decline? It's the devolution of a society into a starkly divided hierarchy of elites and dead-enders, even as more and more of that society's treasure is expended on propping up a doomed imperial regime inside and outside its borders.
Today, many for-profit colleges have picked up where the subprime lenders left off. They are using the same promise of the American dream as bait to trap vulnerable students into underperforming schools and saddling them with a lifetime of debt.
With the expiration of the first-time homebuyer tax credit and looming end to quantitative easing efforts, the housing market is only now being left to face the brunt of post-crisis market forces without those two forms of federal support.
Dan Solin, 2011.06.14
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