BUSINESS DESK BLOG | May 20, 2013

What About Social Security Benefits for Singles and the Divorced?

  • What About Social Security Benefits for Singles and the Divorced?
  • Fifty-two percent of women over 60 aren't married and nearly 70 percent of those over 75 are single. What Social Security benefits are they entitled to? And what about single or divorced men?

BUSINESS DESK BLOG | May 17, 2013

Inequality Today: Worse than a Century Ago?

  • Inequality Today: Worse than a Century Ago?
  • Paul Solman explains how today's income disparity compares to the past. The theme of the presidential campaign of 1912 was economic inequality, he points out, but it's worse today and has been since the mid-1990s.

BUSINESS DESK BLOG | May 16, 2013

Economics, Game Theory and Jane Austen

  • A leading economist explains why game theory has become so important in economics, and how Jane Austen anticipated its results a mere 200 years ago.

BUSINESS DESK BLOG | May 15, 2013

Would a New 'Bretton Woods' Save the Global Economy?

  • Would a New 'Bretton Woods' Save the Global Economy?
  • Are the world’s central banks printing too much money? Does the global economy need coordination? Author Benn Steil examines what lessons can be learned from the 1944 Bretton Woods conference.

BUSINESS DESK BLOG | May 14, 2013

Ask The Headhunter: Am I Getting Stiffed on Salary?

  • Ask The Headhunter: Am I Getting Stiffed on Salary?
  • How do you approach your boss to argue that you deserve a raise? Headhunter Nick Corcodilos explains what to do when an employer is taking advantage of experienced employees and how to get the salary that reflects your contributions.

BUSINESS DESK BLOG | May 13, 2013

Will Social Security Benefits Increase This Year? By How Much?

  •  Will Social Security Benefits Increase This Year? By How Much?
  • Social Security expert Larry Kotlikoff explains how benefits change along with inflation and weighs the potential implications of President Obama’s proposed “chained CPI” inflation measure.

BUSINESS DESK BLOG | May 10, 2013

The One Safe Investment and Why You Never Hear About It From Financial Advisors

  • The One Safe Investment and Why You Never Hear About It From Financial Advisors
  • Economist Zvi Bodie, perhaps the country's foremost expert on pension finance, insists that every American at least consider an investment that financial advisors almost never mention -- I Bonds.

BUSINESS DESK BLOG | May 8, 2013

The Stockholm Syndrome and Printing Money

  • An economist argues we are headed for another stock market crash and Great Depression, due to the wanton printing of money by central banks like the Federal Reserve. Paul Solman provides a counterview.

BUSINESS DESK BLOG | May 7, 2013

Ask The Headhunter: Should Employers Pay to Interview You?

  • Ask The Headhunter: Should Employers Pay to Interview You?
  • Ever feel like a company wasted your time after an interview because they never got back to you about their hiring decision? Headhunter Nick Corcodilos says that when employers ignore deadlines for hiring decisions, job seekers have a right to be compensated for their time.

BUSINESS DESK BLOG | May 6, 2013

How Underfunded Is Social Security and How Might It Be Fixed?

  • How Underfunded Is Social Security and How Might It Be Fixed?
  • Social Security expert Larry Kotlikoff makes the case that the program is $220 trillion in the hole. Counter-expert Alicia Munnell disagrees, and shows how little it would take to fill the hole.

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