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 22 Hiring slows in September as U.S. economy adds 148,000 jobs WASHINGTON -- U.S. employers added just 148,000 jobs in September, suggesting the job market was weakening before a 16-day partial government shutdown. Still, the September gain was enough to lower the unemployment rate, which comes from a separate survey. The… Continue reading
Oct 21 Watch Should individuals also be held accountable for the 2008 financial meltdown? Should individuals also be held accountable for the 2008 financial meltdown?… Continue watching
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 21 Nearly 6 million young Americans don’t work or go to school Job seekers roam a job fair in Manhattan last December.Getty Images WASHINGTON -- Almost 6 million young people are neither in school nor working, according to a study released Monday. That's almost 15 percent of those aged 16 to… Continue reading
Oct 20 Watch J.P. Morgan’s $13 billion penalty A tentative deal was reached yesterday between the Justice Department and JP Morgan Chase. The agreement would require chase, the nation's largest bank, to pay a record 13-billion dollar penalty. Dawn Kopecki, a banking reporter with Bloomberg News, who has… Continue watching
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 Chilecon Valley: Entrepreneurs very welcome EmbedVideo(7737, 514, 320); While United States immigration policy makes it difficult for immigrant entrepreneurs to get visas to set up shop in the United States, Chile is welcoming them with open arms. Through an initiative called Start-Up… Continue reading