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MICHAEL A. FLETCHER

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Buying a Home? Better Get to it Before Wall Street Does

Posted: 4/23/2013 11:25:00 AM

Big investors are pouring unprecedented amounts of money into real estate hard hit by the housing crash, bringing those moribund markets back to life but raising the prospect of another Wall Stree…

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Financial Decline Ahead for Most Retirees

Posted: 2/17/2013 2:43:00 PM

For the first time since the New Deal, a majority of Americans are headed toward a retirement in which they will be financially worse off than their parents, jeopardizing a long era of improved li…

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Great Recession Leaves Long-Lasting Scars: Poll

Posted: 2/7/2013 10:30:00 AM

Americans remain deeply pessimistic about the nation’s economic future nearly four years into the recovery, and the vast majority think it will take “many years” for things to return to the way th…

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Why We're Robbing Tomorrow's Retirement to Pay for Today

Posted: 1/15/2013 11:23:00 AM

A large and growing share of American workers are tapping their retirement savings accounts for non-retirement needs, raising broad questions about the effectiveness of one of the most important s…

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Federal Fiscal Pain Trickles Down to States

Posted: 12/14/2012 12:30:00 PM

Just as state governments are healing from the deep fiscal wound inflicted by the Great Recession, they are confronted by the dual threat of reduced federal help and ever increasing health-care co…

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TODAY’S BELTWAY BLAST

We've hit the debt ceiling again, and the U.S. is on life support. Are we headed for another blowout?