Oct 05 Unemployment Ticks Down to 7.8%, U-7 Down to 16.87% Construction jobs grew by 5,000 in August, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics. Photo by Sam Hodgson/Bloomberg via Getty Images. A rare banner day on the jobs front, at least at first glance. The official unemployment rate --… Continue reading
Oct 04 Can Candidates Get Tax Breaks for Contributing to Their Own Campaigns? Photo of Republican candidate Mitt Romney via Getty Images Paul Solman frequently answers questions from the NewsHour audience on business and economic news here on his Making Sen$e page. Here's Thursday's query: Harvey Weldon: If Romney were to… Continue reading
Oct 03 While Candidates Debate, 27 Million Still Can’t Get a Full-Time Job Photo of Job Seekers by Emile Wamsteker/Bloomberg via Getty Images Paul Solman frequently answers questions from the NewsHour audience on business and economic news here on his Making Sen$e page. Here is Wednesday's query: Steven: Please explain your… Continue reading
Oct 02 ‘Talk Shop, Not Jobs’: The Right Way to Network and More Photo by Bloom Productions via Getty Images Nick Corcodilos is an expert on how to get a job. We ran into him while doing a story on the relative futility of Internet job boards for landing a position and… Continue reading
Oct 01 Larry Answers Social Security Queries on the Divorced, Disabled, Deceased Creative Commons photo courtesy flickr user 26354. Larry Kotlikoff's Social Security "secrets" and his answers to your questions (here, here and here) have prompted so many of you to write in that we now… Continue reading
Sep 27 Do Lower Taxes Goose Growth? Tax Day Photo by Joe Raedle/Getty Images Paul Solman answers questions from the NewsHour audience on business and economic news here on his Making Sen$e page. Here is Thursday's query: Mike Beaver: I listened to your discussion of… Continue reading
Sep 27 More Job Search Secrets: Show Potential Employers the Money Photo of Job Seeker by Jonathan Alcorn/Bloomberg via Getty Images We're pleased to report that we may have found the Larry Kotlikoff of job secrets, professional headhunter Nick Corcodilos. Larry, as readers of Making Sen$e no doubt know, has… Continue reading
Sep 26 Why Stocks Aren’t Safe in the Long Run Image by photosindia via Getty Images. Boston University economist, pension guru and longtime friend of Making Sen$e Zvi Bodie has been featured often here, most recently on I-bonds, and TIPS. You can see him on Making Sen$e… Continue reading
Sep 26 $16 Trillion and Deeper In Debt: How to Profit from a Dying Dollar Photo of Gold Bars and Coins by Chris Ratcliffe/Bloomberg/Getty Images Paul Solman answers questions from the NewsHour audience on business and economic news here on his Making Sen$e page. Here is Wednesday's query: William McDonald: I don't want… Continue reading
Sep 25 No News is Good News; Good News is Better Photo by Phillip Spears via Getty Images The Case-Shiller index is out this morning, and housing prices continued to rise last month. Except perhaps for those shopping for homes, this is unambiguously good news. The more housing wealth,… Continue reading