Maybe it's just the Marxist in me, but I can't help feeling like every time I read about the economic travails of the under-30 set, the writers seem totally blind to even the slightest notion that "class," whether it be social or economic - or socioeconomic if you want to make yourself sound smart - matters.    Read More

The war on the young continues, and we keep losing. Not only do young people make less money than our timeworn, seasoned peers, not only is it harder for us to get hired in this atrocious job market, now, to add insult to injury, we're also getting laid-off with more frequency than workers with greater quotas of senescence.    Read More

You’ve probably seen this story already, the piece by Edmund Andrews, an economics reporter for the New York Times, about his descent into the fifth circle of subprime hell, “My Personal Credit Crisis,” but it’s worth a read, purely for entertainment value, if you missed it.    Read More

While the methodology used wasn't perfect, the validation sure feels good.   Read More

Some people think "too big to fail" is too much to risk. Here's why they are wrong.   Read More

Of all the possible things that Congress and the Obama administration could waste their time fiddling with, why did they have to pick executive pay?   Read More

If you listen to most people who dispense advice about money, the right time to save is always NOW!    Read More

Don't get so swept up in trying to predict where specific stocks are going that you ignore what they're saying about the market as a whole.   Read More