Feb 21 Column: Is your home an investment or a liability? By Teresa Ghilarducci Whether your home is an investment or merely a place to live is a debate that’s heated up since the subprime-mortgage disaster of the early 2000s. Continue reading
Feb 19 States struggle to close their own gender pay gaps By Teresa Wiltz, Stateline Male state workers earn more than their female counterparts in many states, including California, Idaho, Maryland and Texas. Continue reading
Feb 17 Watch 7:35 News Wrap: Back in campaign mode, Trump touts jobs at Boeing By PBS News Hour In our news wrap Friday, President Trump left behind a roller-coaster week in Washington, finding a friendly audience at a Boeing plant in South Carolina, where he touted the rollout of a new plane. Also, the Pakistan military says it… Continue watching
Feb 17 Column: Need to unload family heirlooms? Prepare for disappointment By Richard Eisenberg Next Avenue columnist Richard Eisenberg has advice for boomers desperate to unload family heirlooms. Continue reading
Feb 17 What happened at DC's restaurants when immigrant workers stayed home By Elizabeth Flock, Kristen Doerer Across the country Thursday, workers staged a “Day Without Immigrants,” a protest of President Donald Trump’s policies on immigration. Continue reading
Feb 16 Watch 'Deaths of despair' are cutting life short for some white Americans By PBS News Hour In spite of decades of advancements in health care, diet and safety, white Americans are now living shorter lives, a trend that has surprised experts. Economics correspondent Paul Solman reports out of Maysville, Kentucky, an area struggling with an increase… Continue watching
Feb 15 How does Social Security's cost of living adjustment affect Medicare? By Philip Moeller As predicted, people are confused about how Social Security’s meager 2017 cost of living adjustment, or COLA, is affecting their Part B premiums for Medicare. Continue reading
Feb 14 Yellen: Expect Fed to resume raising rates in coming months By Martin Crutsinger, Associated Press Federal Reserve Chair Janet Yellen pointed Tuesday to a solid U.S. job market and economy and said the Fed will likely resume raising interest rates in the next few months. Continue reading
Feb 14 Column: Do you know how much your financial planner really costs? By Teresa Ghilarducci What really chips away at your savings when you invest in an actively managed fund is how much your manager charges. Continue reading
Feb 13 Column: Why does the Fed keep lowering its unemployment threshold instead of raising rates? By Benn Steil, Emma Smith We're nearing the threshold used to estimate how low unemployment can get before inflation rises. Will the Fed raise interest rates?… Continue reading