By now just about everyone in the country is acutely aware of the economic and personal financial disaster the so-called “fiscal cliff” poses to j...

As expected, the Federal Reserve announced a quantitative easing program that is intended to boost economic growth and help decrease the stubbornly hi...

Many potential retirees welcomed the end of the bear market in 2002 and breathed a sigh of relief that market gains would once again increase their re...

After the Federal Reserve announced that it would continue to implement aggressive policies that are designed to increase economic growth while decrea...

After its latest meeting, the Federal Reserve announced a program that is being referred to as QE3, the Fed’s third quantitative easing program. The...

In August, the Consumer Price Index (CPI) increased by 0.6 percent. Not surprisingly, higher energy prices were the biggest driver of the higher CPI. ...

The Wells Fargo Securities Economic Research team recently presented a summary of how demand in the housing market has been increasing this year. The ...

Low interest rates are a tool that policy makers use in an effort to boost economic growth. With low rates, the cost of credit for businesses and cons...

Most financial planning models assume that retirees will spend less than they did while they were working. A commonly cited figure is that retirees wi...

Many states are grappling with how to fund pensions they have agreed to provide for public workers. California has been in the spotlight as reforms ha...