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 19 WATCH LIVE: Steven Mnuchin confirmation hearing By Martin Crutsinger, Associated Press Donald Trump’s pick to lead the Treasury Department is defending his handling of thousands of foreclosures during the height of the financial crisis. Steven Mnuchin says he worked hard to assist homeowners to refinance so they could keep… 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
Jan 18 Care provider directories wrong nearly half the time in Medicare Advantage plan lists By Philip Moeller Most Medicare Advantage plans either prevent people from using providers not in their networks or charge them higher rates for out-of-network care. It’s thus very important that people review a plan’s network directory before enrolling in a plan. But what… Continue reading
Jan 16 On final foreign stop in Davos, Biden offers plea to Trump By James Blue As the Annual Meeting of the World Economic Summit kicked off late Monday afternoon, Vice President Joe Biden made a quick trip to Davos to campaign for his cancer “moonshot.”… Continue reading
Jan 16 Watch 7:29 Why so many students from for-profit schools are left in debt limbo By PBS News Hour Students who attend for-profit college and training programs are more likely to borrow, borrow more and struggle to repay their loans. Not only that, but the overall graduation rate at for-profit institutions is just 27 percent. Meanwhile, a number of… Continue watching
Jan 16 Do ride-sharing apps discriminate against black customers? By Making Sen$e Editor A new study found that there were roughly twice the number of cancellations for customers who used African American-sounding names when requesting a ride in Boston than those using white-sounding names. Continue reading