Hard Currency: What a Ton of Cash Will Buy

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 …

People@Work: The Sorry State of America’s Wage Earners

Everyone knows that the typical American household has been running in place or falling behind financially, thanks to stagnant wages and rising prices. But a new study from the the Economic Policy Institute shows that the probl…

Millionaires’ Confidence Reaches Three-Year High

Wealthy investors now have more confidence in the economy than they’ve had in nearly three years, according to Chicago consulting firm Spectrem, which manages the Spectrem Millionaire Investor Confidence Index.
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