Economy Jan 14 Why You Should Wait Until 70 Photo by Tetra Images. Social Security expert Larry Kotlikoff answers reader's questions covering issues from retirement, medicare and more. style="float: right; margin: 0px 0px 5px 5px;"/> _Larry Kotlikoff's [Social Security original 34 "secrets"](http://www.pbs.org/ newshour/businessdesk/2012/07/social-security-secrets-you-ne.html), his [**additional secrets**](http://www.pbs.org/newshour/businessdesk/2012/08/on-the-qt-a-few-more- social-se.html), his Social…
Economy Jan 11 Are You Getting Ripped Off by Money Management Fees? Photo by Cultura/yellowdog via Getty Images. Paul Solman frequently answers questions from the NewsHour audience on business and economic news on his Making Sen$e page. Friday's comes from a reader at Next Avenue. The NewsHour has partnered with…
Economy Jan 10 Economist Andrew Smithers on Labor, Capital and Increased Tax Rates Today we welcome once again our friend and monetary minstrel Jon Shayne, aka Merle Hazard, a Nashville investment manager. Shayne has written and sung such classics as "H-E-D-G-E," "In the Hamptons," "The Greek Debt Crisis" and "Inflation or Deflation?" He…
Economy Jan 09 The LIBOR Scandal: Not that Big a Deal? Former Barclays chairman Marcus Agius faced the Parliamentary Treasury Select Committee on the LIBOR scandal in London in July. Photo by Jason Alden/Bloomberg via Getty Images. One of the biggest business scandals of 2012 was the the manipulation of LIBOR,…
Economy Jan 08 How To Get Interviews Without Cold Calling An unemployed banker peddles on the street for a job. Photo by Spencer Platt via Getty Images. Nick Corcodilos is an expert on how to get a job. We ran into him while doing a story on the relative…
Economy Jan 07 How to Try to Stop Your Ex from Getting Spousal Benefits Whether you are married or divorced, you can potentially collect spousal benefits. Photo by William Thomas Cain/Getty Images Larry Kotlikoff's Social Security original 34 "secrets", his additional secrets, his Social Security "mistakes" and his Social Security…
Economy Jan 04 Another Victory in the War on Our Children Paul Solman: "Ask Larry" Kotlikoff is a hot commodity here on Making Sense, not only as our (and your) Social Security sherpa, but as a sometime commentator on economics, which is how he's known to the rest of the…
Economy Jan 04 December Unemployment Held Steady; U-7 Down Again A job seeker looks over material during a HIREvent job fair in San Jose, Calif. Photo by David Paul Morris/Bloomberg via Getty Images. Nothing dramatic on the jobs front this month. December's unemployment rate held steady at 7.8 percent. The…
Politics Jan 03 Barney Frank’s Plans for the Future // In an exit interview that aired Dec. 26, economic correspondent Paul Solman spoke with Rep. Barney Frank, D-Mass., who retired from Congress at the end of his term in January 2013. In the last of our series of…
Economy Jan 02 Life Insights from a 100-Year-Old Manufacturing Worker // While reporting on needle and tubing manufacturing firm Vita Needle in Needham, Mass., the NewsHour team met Rosa Finnegan. The company is known for its elderly workforce with its average worker 74 years old. But at 100, Finnegan is…