Oct 22 More than 25M Americans still can’t get a full-time job By Paul Solman, Simone Pathe Our own unemployment metric, the "Solman Scale," found unemployment ticked down slightly to 15.6 percent. Photo courtesy of John Moore/Getty Images. Continue reading
Oct 22 More than 25M Americans Still Can’t Get a Full-Time Job By Paul Solman By Paul Solman and Simone Pathe Our "Solman Scale" measures the "U-7," adding to the officially unemployed part-timers looking for full-time work and "discouraged" workers -- everyone who didn't look for a job in the past week but says they… Continue reading
Oct 21 Collecting on your ex’s Social Security: When and how? By Laurence Kotlikoff Even if you've been divorced for years, you may still benefit from a divorcée spousal benefit from your ex's work record. Social Security expert Larry Kotlikoff explains when and how to cross that path. Photo courtesy of Flickr user… Continue reading
Oct 21 Collecting on Your Ex’s Social Security: When and How? By Laurence Kotlikoff By Larry Kotlikoff Even if you've been divorced for years, you may still benefit from a divorcée spousal benefit from your ex's work record. Social Security expert Larry Kotlikoff explains when and how to cross that path. Photo courtesy of… Continue reading
Oct 20 Who made money on the presidential prediction markets and who lost By Paul Solman President Barack Obama, seen here debating former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney, wasn't the only winner of the 2012 election. Thanks to offshore presidential prediction markets, one Romney-backer's $4 million loss bankrolled a grad student's winter break in Portugal. Photo courtesy… Continue reading
Oct 20 Who Made Money on the Presidential Prediction Markets and Who Lost By Paul Solman President Barack Obama, seen here debating former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney, wasn’t the only winner of the 2012 election. Thanks to offshore presidential prediction markets, one Romney-backer’s $4 million loss bankrolled a grad student’s winter break in Portugal. Photo courtesy… Continue reading
Oct 18 How to teach children to be savvy consumers: Let them spend In 2011, Paul Solman got a first-hand look at how Elmo was exercising self-control to save money. Vicki Hoefle tells you how to get your kids to do the same. If children represent the future of this country, their financial… Continue reading
Oct 17 Little Libertarians on the Prairie As libertarian values move back into the mainstream of American politics, few citizens think to link them to a series of beloved childhood books, writes Christine Woodside. Photo courtesy of Flickr user Bo Insogna. Continue reading
Oct 17 Little Libertarians on the Prairie By Christine Woodside A beloved children's book series helped sell libertarian values. Photo courtesy of Flickr user Bo Insogna. Simone Pathe: I had the entire set of "Little House" books. They came in an illustrated cardboard box… Continue reading
Oct 16 Robert Reich: Making people laugh about economic inequality In part two of our extended conversation with Robert Reich, he explains how he first met Bill Clinton in 1968 and why laughing is so essential to learning. Watch Making Sen$e's broadcast interview with Reich above. Continue reading