Jan 30 Column: Trump’s border tax is not the right fix for U.S.-Mexico trade By Chad Bown There is little to gain and much to lose by using a border tax adjustment as either a punitive import tariff or a policy designed to finance a border wall. Continue reading
Jan 27 Column: The great irony of the Mexico tariff is that Americans would pay for it too By Robert Lawrence Ultimately, trade policies based on deals and short-term political advantage will not only damage U.S. relations with Mexico and our other trading partners, but fail to enhance the employment or living standards of the working classes that elected him. Continue reading
Jan 26 Watch 8:11 Are you hanging off a financial cliff? Here’s how to cope By PBS News Hour Elizabeth White was once comfortably middle class, but recently she has been severely underemployed. Now as she approaches the traditional age for retirement, she is struggling to make ends meet, and her story is not uncommon. Economics correspondent Paul Solman… Continue watching
Jan 26 Column: Broke baby boomers, it’s time to claw your way back By Elizabeth White When you’ve landed here, what’s the play? When nothing works anymore, what do you do? When you’ve forgotten who you are and what you know, where do you begin?… Continue reading
Jan 25 Column: Why is my Medicare Part B premium more than my husband’s? By Philip Moeller Why are Medicare Part B premiums different for a married couple if they have identical Medicare insurance plans? Journalist Phil Moeller explains. Continue reading
Jan 25 Column: How Chicken Little got Dow 20,000 so terribly wrong By Terry Burnham Economist Terry Burnham predicted that the Dow Jones Industrial Average would hit 5,000 before it hit 20,000. With the Dow hitting 20,000 today, Burnham discusses how he got it so wrong. Continue reading
Jan 24 Do online courses increase access to education? By Making Sen$e Editor Online coursework has been heralded as potentially transformative for higher education, but little is known about whether it increases the number of people who earn degrees. Continue reading
Jan 19 Watch 7:59 55, unemployed and faking normal: One woman’s story of barely scraping by By PBS News Hour Elizabeth White has been on the edge of the financial cliff for years, but you'd never know it from outside appearances. "Everybody is pretending," she says. In her self-published book "Fifty-Five, Unemployed, and Faking Normal" she painfully chronicles the crash… Continue watching
Jan 19 Column: Broke baby boomers, it’s time to face reality By Elizabeth White Elizabeth White had a comfortable upper-middle-class lifestyle. She lost it all. She talks about how to create a "new normal."… Continue reading
Jan 18 Column: Women in the workplace don’t need to be empowered. They need to own their power By Sallie Krawcheck Here's a different take: Women don't need to conform to a man's game to find success in the workplace, Sallie Krawcheck says. Continue reading