Investment

Budget Battles

  • 3 Reasons Investors Should Cheer the Economy

    By Suzanne McGee, The Fiscal Times

    Yesterday wasn’t just the first day of spring—it was the first annual International Day of Happiness. That’s what the United Nations announced. Yes, really: It’s an entire day set aside for us to...

  • Bernanke Says Fed Will Maintain Easy Money Policy

    By Reuters

    The Federal Reserve on Wednesday pressed forward with its aggressive efforts to stimulate the U.S. economy, saying it would take into account risks posed by its policies but also how much work still...

  • Balanced Budget Policy Cuts Britain’s Growth in Half

    By William Schomberg and David Milliken, Reuters

    British finance minister George Osborne turned to the Bank of England on Wednesday to help galvanize a stagnant economy which he said would grow this year at just half the rate previously expected...

  • How the Russians Brought on the Cyprus ‘Bail-in’

    By Suzanne McGee, The Fiscal Times

    Cyprus accounts for only about 0.2 percent of the Eurozone’s GDP, with a national output that is roughly that of Vermont and a population about the same size of Philadelphia. So why is the proposed...

  • The Most Alarming Truth About the New Retirement

    By Cnbc Staff, CNBC

    The Employee Benefit Research Institute (EBRI) has published its annual Retirement Confidence Survey, confirming what virtually all such surveys have concluded: Americans are living longer; and they...