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- Why Financial Literacy is a Mirage
- Financial literacy is today's Very Worthy Cause. In reality, though, it's no more than amiable smokescreen-a way to blame consumers for the financial industry's failures and head off reform that will really make a difference. by Eric Schurenberg
- Blog posts 2009-11-04
- Are Baby Boomers Unlucky, Moneywise?
- We boomers had all last week the anniversary of Woodstock to remind ourselves how lucky we were to have come of age during the era of sex, drugs and rock n roll. Now that our nostalgia-induced buzz has faded, though, it's back to reality: recession, swollen college bills, blasted home...
- Blog posts 2009-08-21
- Fidelity Makes the Case Against the 401(k)
- Fidelity just released its quarterly analysis of accounts in the 17,500 401k plans it administers. The nation's number one administrator and manager of 401k assets reports that the balance in its average account rose 13.5% to $53,900--a nice jump. Then, in an odd follow-up feature, it listed what its analysts...
- Blog posts 2009-08-14
- Don't Just Do Something
- From its low on March 9 to its high this week, the S&P 500 has had a 50 percent move. Thanks to the law of large numbers that doesn't come close to retracing what the market lost in the crash. Still, 50-point moves don't come along very often -- not...
- Blog posts 2009-08-06
- What to Do if You Missed the Rally
- If four grown men drinking beer on the White House lawn is a teachable moment for America, what do you make of a 48% rally in the stock market since March 9? It's "teachable," all right, but it's more than a moment--more like an entire remedial course in the unpredictability...
- Blog posts 2009-07-31
- Time to Replace the 401(k)
- A couple weeks ago, I blogged that the 401k had failed. My point was that we had taken a perfectly decent supplementary savings plan and, without any real discussion, allowed it to become the sole source of most workers' non-Social Security retirement income. The 401k was not designed for that...
- Blog posts 2009-07-29
- Why China is a Dangerous Place for Your Money
- If you have to have a Great Recession, you want to have one like China is having. A laggard on the way into the downturn, the Middle Kingdom has become a leader on the way out.  Its economy vaulted 7.9% in the second quarter, a turnabout that on Sunday The...
- Blog posts 2009-07-21
- So, You'll Just Work A Few Years Longer. You Sure?
- As you stare at the smoking ruin of your 401k, the collapsed value of your home and the massive deficits facing Social Security, it's pretty clear what you have to do to have any hope of retiring with dignity. Work a few more years. Call it quits at 66, say,...
- Blog posts 2009-07-17
- Your Financial Adviser Got a Raise. Did You?
- Maybe you didn't have a very good 2008. I sure didn't, and neither did a lot of people, including auto workers, journalists, realtors, bankers, manufacturers and importers and exporters. But financial advisers did just great. In a survey, they reported their income went up to up to...
- Blog posts 2009-07-13
- The 401(k) Has Failed. Let's Admit It
- Why don't we just admit that the 401k is a failure and get on to designing something better? I say this as the writer of an admiring book about every employee's favorite saving plan (Take Charge of Your Future, Warner Books, 2003), and I still think that...
- Blog posts 2009-06-24
- Worry About Your Pension, Not Your Pension’s Insurer
- Last week the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation, the federal agency that pays your pension if your employer can't, told the Senate Select Committee on Aging that its assets fall $33.5 billion short of its obligations. In other words, the perennially underfunded agency wanted to let everyone know that it wasn't...
- Blog posts 2009-05-27
- Higher Interest Rates: One Cheer for Bond Vigilantes
- The Dow's reaction to higher rates on Treasury notes yesterday -- a nearly 200-point drop -- is the sort of thing that will depress you if you spend too much time caught up in market's daily mood swings. Sure, there are lots of good reasons not to like higher interest...
- Blog posts 2009-05-28
- Investing in the "New Normal"
- The natural response to the market rally of the past two months was to sigh in relief. Maybe the nightmare was over. Maybe, just maybe, we'd paid our dues, gotten the message about risk, suffered through the exception that proves the rule, and now can we please go back to...
- Blog posts 2009-05-29
- The Confidence Game
- In the past weeks, we've seen two 200-plus-point rallies in the Dow. The first coincided with the news that a starving nation led by a Stalinist throwback cult leader had detonated a nuclear bomb on the Korean peninsula. The second came on the day that a century-old symbol of American...
- Blog posts 2009-06-03
- The Confidence Trap
- Confidence, these days, is the only thing more infectious than swine flu. On MoneyWatch.com Thursday, for example, CBS's Alexis Christoforous ticked off postive developments under the headline Signs of an Economic Comeback. Initial unemployment claims dipped and retail sales edged up. (Never mind that the day also...
- Blog posts 2009-06-14
- Why Everyone Is Right About Regulatory Reform
- The President's proposed overhaul of financial regulation has to be doing something right because it seems to be making so many different people unhappy. Douglas Elliot, a fellow at the liberal Brookings Institution, calls the plan largely sensible, but worries that it's vulnerable to being watered down by interest groups...
- Blog posts 2009-06-18
- I Will Not Time the Market. I Will Not Time the Market
- When people in the advice business make the point that timing the market is a loser’s game, they often trot their favorite hypothetical. You've not doubt encountered it in the "Investing is Easy" brochures that your company gave you when you enrolled in your 401k. (That is, if you even...
- Blog posts 2009-06-19
- Actually, the Times Got it Right on 401(k)s
- The New York Times editorial page added its two cents to the retirement reform debate with a piece on Sunday. The editorial focused on the 401k, as well it should. You can't head off the looming retirement crisis until you acknowledge that the 401k is part of the problem. ...
- Blog posts 2009-08-25
- The Hidden Payoff from Cash for Clunkers
- The final scorecard is out on the cash for clunkers program: In return for taking on $2.88 billion in additional debt, Uncle Sam helped the auto industry sell 690,000 new vehicles. Whether this was a winning trade is debatable, as this MoneyWatch story points out and this post How Would...
- Blog posts 2009-08-27
- If TARP Was So Smart, Why Are So Many Banks Failing?
- So we taxpayers actually made money on the Troubled Asset Relief Program-at least so far. Goldman Sachs GS, JP Morgan JPM and others have repaid the loans from the government, with interest, and the equity stakes that we hold in Citigroup C and Bank of America BAC have appreciated since...
- Blog posts 2009-09-01
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