2008 was a BAD year for retirement funds. Aside from the fact that it was a bad year for pretty much anything financial, retirement funds in particular are suffering for some non-financial reasons as well.
It’s estimated that at this point investors have lost between 30% and 45% of the value of their investments. That wipes [...]

There’s a saying;
You can’t get anywhere without deciding where to go.
As it’s a New Year now, it’s time to re-examine the past year’s goals and see where we are. It’s also time to set new goals for the coming year.
Setting goals is a basic task for making your life and situation better. If you sit [...]

Well, it’s official. We’re staying home for the holidays. Originally we had planned on visiting family in Seattle, but with the recent horrible weather they’ve been having, a huge number of flights to SEA/TAC have already been delayed or canceled. That and thousands of people are already stuck in Seattle/Tacoma airport just trying to find [...]

Last week, the Office of Thrift Supervision, the Federal Reserve, and the National Credit Union Administration gave the American people a huge Christmas present, albeit one that we won’t be able to open until 2010.
These three offices of commerce have decided that credit card companies are participating in “unfair,” “unreasonable,” and “deceptive,” tactics when dealing [...]

I only wish this were a funny or silly headline to grab reader’s attention, but it’s just been reported earlier today that a Wal-Mart employee has been trampled to death by shoppers rushing to take advantage of the Black Friday Christmas sales specials.
At the Wal-Mart at the Green Acres Mall in Valley Stream, N.Y. a [...]