With more and more financial transactions being conducted electronically, it’s easy to forget the physicality of money. What a dollar weighs, or a pile of them. So just for fun, let’s start piling up the Benjamins and see what …
Not everyone is focusing on the down side of Japan’s triple disaster — tsunami, earthquake and nuclear catastrophe. Warren Buffett, for one, has faith in Japan’s economic prospects. The Nikkei surged as investors searched for …
The Republicans are winning this year’s budget battle: Discretionary spending will decrease. But this is hardly the time for the GOP to take a victory lap: Next, the GOP will have to lower unemployment and improve the average A…
We all know the psychological impacts of job loss and unemployment can be painful. But a new study reveals something that may surprise some victims of this recession: Having a bad job can be as harmful to your mental health as …
The Fed’s decision to allow big banks to pay sharply higher dividends makes no sense, and not just because the results of the so-called “stress tests” are secret. Based on facts that are public knowledge, the banks are actually…