Daily Archives: January 14, 2014

“Unretirement” plans now dominant

Fifteen years of under-saving and over-spending amid a secular bear market for stocks, poor investment management, plunging interest rates and anemic dividend yields are all taking their toll on the retirement plans of baby boomers today (now aged 50 to … Continue reading

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Stiglitz on disappointing job growth

The impotent US Fed may be stuck at the zero bound on its policy rates. But their monetary policies are no longer stimulative for the real economy. Nobel prize winning economist Joseph Stiglitz weighs in on the disappointing US jobs … Continue reading

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ECRI updates 2012 recession call

Lakshman Achuthan, Economic Cycle Research Institute, explains why he thinks the U.S. economy is in a recession but we just don’t realize it. Here is a direct video link. ECRI further offers this chart today comparing the 101,000 new jobs … Continue reading

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