Why It Stinks To Lose Your Job At 50

New "super drugs" like Modafinil let people reduce the amount of time they sleep, to potentially as little as two-and-a-half hours a ni

One of the defining features of the current economic downturn is that when people lose their job, they tend to remain unemployed for a loooong time.

President Obama is playing the media like a fiddle (more accurately like the fools they are). Countless mainstream media articles talk about the devastation that is sure to follow if the sequester cuts take place. Obama has even hyped this us with threats of cuts on vaccinations for children.

For a publicly-traded company to be able to pay out dividends to its shareholders, it has to have two things going for it: Earnings (also known as Profits) Cash Flow If a company doesn't have these two things going for it, it's not going to be able to sustain paying out dividends on a regular basis for very long.

For a publicly-traded company to be able to pay out dividends to its shareholders, it has to have two things going for it: Earnings (also known as Profits) Cash Flow If a company doesn't have these two things going for it, it's not going to be able to sustain paying out dividends on a regular basis for very long.

Sometimes bad news for everybody else means lawyers are doing well. Bankruptcy attorneys, for example, made bank while the rest of the country was sinking into a recession back in 2008.

As 2012 draws to a close, people in or nearing retirement face a stunning set of uncertainties about their finances and even basic health and retirement benefits. Congress has left Washington for the Christmas break without passing any measures to delay or soften the effects of the so-called fiscal cliff.