Personal Economics
  • Why Cash-Hoarding Companies May Have an Edge

    By Suzanne McGee, The Fiscal Times

    Investors’ hunger for dividend stocks just can’t be satisfied. Hardly a day goes by without some financial strategist or other pundit urging them buy to their hearts’ content. That’s why it was all...

  • Retirement Fears Remain at Historic High

    By Merrill Goozner, The Fiscal Times

    The longest running annual survey of American attitudes toward retirement and retirement security, conducted every January by the Employee Benefit Research Institute, showed just 52 percent of...

  • Inflation Solution: Will the Fed Cage the Hawks?

    When the Federal Reserve’s monetary policy committee meets this week, the debate over the future course of policy is likely to be heated. The recent news that the labor market is doing better along...

  • The Income Gap Shrinks with Accurate Accounting

    Are the rich getting richer? President Obama thinks so, and has made narrowing the gap between rich and poor a staple of his reelection campaign. Many on the left who decry the exorbitant payouts to...

  • Obama's Approval Dips on Gas Prices and Economy

    By Dan Balz and JON COHEN, The Washington Post

    Disapproval of President Obama’s handling of the economy is heading higher — alongside gasoline prices — as a record number of Americans now give the president “strongly” negative reviews on the 2012...