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How Depressing Is a Depression?
Financially, it's a disaster. Psychically, it might not be nearly as bad as you expect.It's becoming increasingly clear that the recession is going to be nasty, brutish, and long. Many economists project years of pain, and there's little on the horizon — even the stimulus bill — that seems likely...
Tags: Economist, MoneyWatch, Recruitment & Selection, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Great Depression, Psychology of Money, Job, Recession, MoneyWatch Feature Package, Lyubomirsky, Hedonic Adaptation, Wealth and Happiness, David Mashburn, Sonya Lyubomirsky, Dan Gilbert, Andrew Shatt, Jeff Garigliano
Articles 2009-03-09
The Rally in Perspective
Does the recent rally have your kicking yourself about missing the bottom? Take a chill pill. The bigger danger is that you'll become as ensnared by greed as you once were by fear. How to get a grip on your emotions — and your investments. ...
Tags: Stock, Investor, MoneyWatch, Financial Accounting, Investment, Finance, MoneyWatch Feature Package, Market Rebound, Fear, Greed, Bear Market Trap, Melt-up, Dalbar, Diversification, Jill Schlesinger, MoneyWatch.com Editor-at-Large, Jill Schlesinger, MoneyWatch.com Editor-at-Large
Articles 2009-04-04
So Now You Want to Jump Back Into Stocks?
The fear that kept you from putting money into stocks all these months is starting to give way to the fear of being left behind. Time to get a little perspective, isn't it?After 17 months of a grindingly awful bear market, the worst since the Great Depression, a few...
Tags: Stock, Bear Market, Fear, MoneyWatch, Investment, Finance, MoneyWatch Feature Package, Market Swings, Market Timing, Stocks, Investment Planning, Investor Greed, Investing, Retirement Planning
Articles 2009-04-04
Credit Card Consumer Guide
Until the Fed cleans up the credit card industry, take matters into your own hands. Protect yourself from rate hikes and punitive rule changes with these tips. As if things weren't rough enough for your finances these days, credit card issuers have started to play rough. They're jacking up...
Tags: Credit Card, MoneyWatch, Sales Channel, Financial Services, Sales, MoneyWatch Feature Package, Credit Cards, Credit Limit, Interest Rates
Articles 2009-04-15
Uncle Sam Says You're Rich. So Why Do You Feel Screwed?
If your family makes much more than $150,000, you're too rich to get federal aid. But that doesn't mean your job or your 401k is secure. And guess whose taxes will pay for the bailout you're not getting?Recessions always hurt folks who live from one paycheck to the next. That's...
Tags: Job, Kid, MoneyWatch, Recruitment & Selection, Taxes, 401(k), Personal Finance, Retirement Plans, Free Trade, Investment, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Financial Planning, Finance, Benefits, Recession, Wall Street Bonuses, Stimulus Benefits, Job Security, MoneyWatch Feature Package, Retirement
Articles 2009-05-04
Talk Yourself off the Ledge
Sure, you?re nervous. Who isn?t? But fear is not a financial strategy. How to get a grip on your emotions, and your investments.You?re a smart investor and you?re scared. Yes, the market has rallied dramatically since mid-March ? but will it last? There?s good reason to be skeptical, given...
Tags: Retirement, Bear Market, MoneyWatch, Strategy, Investment, Financial Accounting, Management, Finance, Investing, MoneyWatch Feature Package, Retirement Planning, Retirement Income, Risk, Stock Market, Rally
Articles 2009-05-06
Life After GM
No, GM's not going to disappear anytime soon, but whether the company goes into bankruptcy or not, it's going to be a much different and smaller presence. One way or another, you are going to feel the change.As GM goes, so goes the nation, it used to be said. While...
Tags: General Motors Corp., Bankruptcy, MoneyWatch, Litigation, Personal Finance, Business Operations, General Motors, GM, Auto Industry, Rover, MoneyWatch Feature Package
Articles 2009-05-12
The Accidental Consultant
The Armageddon economy has created a new shadow workforce of, ahem, consultants. If you're one, here's how to make the best of it — and maybe find your next job.The ranks of the white-collar unemployed have risen by more than a third since 2007. The market for full-time employment is...
Tags: Consultant, MoneyWatch, Armageddon Economy, Outsourcing, Professional Development, Payroll Solutions, It Operations, Business Operations, Outsourcing & Subcontracting, Career, Consulting, Layoffs, Self Employment, Home Office, Government Work, Contract Management, Financial Compliance, Health Care Reform, Project Management, Social Media, Web Consulting, Data Security, MoneyWatch Feature Package
Articles 2009-05-26
How to Pay Your Kid's Tuition with an Athletic Scholarship
To wrangle financial aid, you'll have to start early. Every year, thousands of former kinder kickers and pee-wee running backs get big-league tuition breaks or favored admissions at colleges their grades alone would never qualify them for. Why not yours? After all, you've spent obscene amounts...
Tags: College, Scholarship, MoneyWatch, MoneyWatch Feature Package, Scholarships, Athletic Scholarships, Paying for College, Tuition, Athletes
Articles 2009-06-02
Wait! Don't File That Return Yet!
Hustling to ship off your 2008 tax return? Not so fast. Check out these often overlooked deductions, including some that are new for '08. A last-minute look could save you some money.Sure, you'd like to get your 2008 tax returns behind you. But while you have time — albeit, not...
Tags: MoneyWatch, Taxes, Free Trade, Personal Finance, Financial Planning, Finance, IRS, MoneyWatch Feature Package, Sales Taxes, Medical Expenses, Tax Credit, Deduction, Roth IRA, Individual Retirement Account, Property Taxes
Articles 2009-04-03
The $787 Billion Question
What are the odds that Obama's massive new spending plan will succeed?As the Obama administration tries everything to get us out of the current economic crisis, nothing has proven more contentious than its $787 billion stimulus package. Is it the essential jolt that will jump start a recovery, or is...
Tags: Stimulus, MoneyWatch, Taxes, Free Trade, Government, Personal Finance, Financial Planning, Finance, Stimulus Package, Garett Jones, Menzie Chinn, Keynesian Economics, Multiplier Effect, American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, LaFollette School of Public Affairs, George Mason University, Tyler Cowen, Brad DeLong, MoneyWatch Feature Package
Articles 2009-03-24
Are You Saving Too Much?
The economic crisis has driven families to rediscover a long-forgotten American virtue: thrift. Ironically, that's exactly what the economy doesn't need right now.The message from the Administration and the U.S. Treasury couldn't be clearer: Please start spending again, America. Your economy needs you. But we haven't been listening....
Tags: Economy, MoneyWatch, Corporate Communications, Marketing, Savings Rate, Household Debt, Consumption, Paradox of Thrift, Recession, Recovery, Great Depression, Nesting, Home Sizes, Bankruptcy, Barbara Dafoe Whitehead, Center for Thrift and Generosity, Savings Programs, MoneyWatch Feature Package
Articles 2009-03-24
The Upside of Apocalypse
Scammed in 2008? Laid off? Your portfolio in tatters? Well, look on the bright side. At least you'll get some tax breaks. Here are three that could make the final reckoning a little less painful. Who could fault you for thinking that 2008 marked the end of the financial...
Tags: Financial, MoneyWatch, Taxes, Free Trade, Personal Finance, Financial Planning, Finance, MoneyWatch Feature Package, Kathy Kristof, Tax, Deduction, Credit, Phase-Out, Threshold Income, Above-The-Line, First-Time Homebuyer Credit, American Opportunity Tax Credit, Hope Tax Credit, Lifetime Learning Credit, Making Work Pay Credit, Write-Off, Schedule C, Loss, Ponzi Scheme, Madoff, IRS
Articles 2009-03-09
Great Minds on the Market
Even market high priests have been humbled by the massacre of the Dow. For wisdom that goes beyond the same old advice, listen to these four. The worst financial markets in a generation have thrown into question virtually every long-held tenet of investing. Conclusions backed by 70 years of history...
Tags: Theory, Financial, MoneyWatch, Financial Accounting, Finance, Harry Markowitz, Eugene Fama, Peter Bernstein, Jeremy Grantham, Market Crisis, Bailout, Diversification, Asset Allocation, Efficient Market Theory, Modern Portfolio Theory, Value Investing, MoneyWatch Feature Package
Articles 2009-03-09
The Ultimate Retirement Fix
Don't bank on Washington or a major market rebound. This fix is up to you.Has the market's recent meltdown messed with your retirement plans? Join the club. But there is a solution — and it doesn't involve billion-dollar bailouts or a continued surge in the stock market. The...
Tags: MoneyWatch, Corporate Communications, Investment, Recruitment & Selection, Workforce Management, Marketing, Finance, Human Resources, MoneyWatch Feature Package, Retirement Planning, 401(k), Work Longer, Alicia Munnell, Older Work, Social Security, Retirement Benefits, Training
Articles 2009-03-09
Sleep Your Way to the Top
Want to think faster, make better decisions, and get ahead at work? The secret: Get enough sleep.The workplace is perhaps the ultimate obstacle course. And its difficulty level has only increased now that layoffs threaten almost every company and those left remaining are required to do more just to stay...
Tags: MoneyWatch, Professional Development, Recruitment & Selection, Tools & Techniques, Workforce Management, Vertical Industries, Career, Human Resources, Management, Enterprise Software, Software, MoneyWatch Feature Package, Sleep Deprivation, Productivity, Insomnia, Risks, Harm, Work
Articles 2009-03-16
The Secrets of Financial Aid
If you think your income is too lofty for your child to qualify for college financial aid, think again. Your college savings fund has gone down, down, down, but the cost of tuition just keeps going up. Does this mean you'll be forced to dig deeper to send off your...
Tags: Financial, MoneyWatch, Financial Accounting, Finance, MoneyWatch Feature Package, Lynn O’Shaugnessy, Financial Aid, College, Home Equity, Merit Aid, Tuition Discounts, College Board, Ivy League, Merit Awards, College Scholarships
Articles 2009-03-16
Was Everything You Thought You Knew About Investing Wrong?
Stocks outperform long term. Asset allocation minimizes risk. Turns out the old investing bible needs an update. Can you hear them cracking? The very pillars of investing wisdom seem to be crumbling under the weight of this financial crisis. Who would have thought to challenge the...
Tags: Asset, Stock, Video, Asset Allocation, MoneyWatch, Asset Management, Corporate Communications, Investment, Operational Planning, Business Operations, Marketing, Finance, MoneyWatch Feature Package, Diversification, Index Funds, Jeremy Siegel, Stocks for the Long Run, Stock Market Performance, Zvi Bodie, Paul Samuelson, Jeremy Grantham, Peter Bernstein, Retirement, Investing Lies, Retirement Planning
Articles 2009-03-16
The Best Retirement Plans
Whether you're working for a company or self-employed, these tax-favored savings plans can help you get your retirement account growing again. Has the market bottomed? Who knows? But there's one investing principle that's never in doubt: It always makes sense to grab every penny of tax advantage that Uncle Sam...
Tags: 401(k) Plan, Tax, MoneyWatch, 401(k), Retirement Plans, Personal Finance, Investment, Human Resources, Benefits, Finance, Roth IRA, Roth 401(k), Retirement Savings, Taxes, MoneyWatch Feature Package, Investment Choice, Loans, Financial Advice, IBM, M.A. Mortenson, Nationwide, Employer Match, Rollover, Annuity, Defined Benefit Pension, Health Care, Self-employed, Retirement, SEP IRA, Individual 401(k), Keogh, Retirement Planning
Articles 2009-03-16
Go Where the Money Is
Nine of the best cities to find work, both in America and abroad, and how to get jobs there. Success, it is said, is a matter of being in the right place at the right time. While this is hardly the right time for much of anything, there are...
Tags: Job, City, MoneyWatch, Recruitment & Selection, Human Resources, Workforce Management, MoneyWatch Feature Package, Long-Distance Job Search, Relocation, Des Moines, Austin, Oklahoma City, Public Relations, Green Building, Recession-Proof Jobs
Articles 2009-03-17
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