from Slate – Moneybox
The Big Money presents Every Day I Read the Book, featuring Daniel Gross. Dan’s guest is John Gillespie, co-author of the book Money for Nothing: How the Failure of Corporate Boards is Ruining American Business and Costing Us Trillions.[more ...]
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from CNN Money Top Tips
Jobs. Jobs. Jobs. It’s expected to be the biggest headline from the president’s State of the Union Address. And for good reason. In January of 2009, the unemployment rate was 7.7%. That jumped to 10% in December of 2009. That’s almost 3 and a half million more people out of work [...]
from Moneywatch Personal Finance
Mortgage applications filed last week fall a seasonally adjusted 10.9% from the week before, amid doubts about whether the pace of refinancing activity can be sustained, data from the Mortgage Bankers Association show.
from Moneywatch Personal Finance
Patti Ristau said she was terrified when she first landed in Seville, Spain, for a semester studying abroad.
from MintLife Personal Finance News & Advice
So, your resume has gotten you a job interview; it’s the first big step toward the job you want. When your interview begins, however, job skills become secondary. You’re now being interviewed largely on the kind of person you are. Your resume tells people who you are, but your [...]
from Slate – Moneybox
Over the last year, the dollar lost ground against most major currencies, and as a New York-based foreign correspondent, I took the news like other people would celebrate a raise or a promotion. Many people spend part of their breakfasts checking the Dow or their mutual funds—I look at the euro and [...]
from CNN Money Personal Finance
Question: My wife and I are both over 50 and plan to convert $115,000 in traditional IRAs to Roth IRAs this year to take advantage of the one-year reprieve on income limits on conversions. Our question: can we each also make regular annual contributions to a Roth IRA this year? We [...]
from Moneywatch Personal Finance
Top policymakers in business as well as government are joining to take some cooperative action against Alzheimer’s disease.
from Moneywatch Personal Finance
Figuring out how much you’ll need to save for retirement is a complex calculation. You have to estimate how many years your savings must last. And you need to figure out how high your expenses will be. Those two calculations alone are enough to make an eager retirement saver look for something [...]
from MintLife Personal Finance News & Advice
Despite being all but irrelevant to the world economy just two decades ago, India has clearly become a force to be reckoned with on the global stage. Continuing our series on growing economies, we’ll look more closely at India’s economic landscape – the opportunities, government incentives to producers, fastest-growing [...]