Retirement Planning and Investing
Read about key developments in the United States and elsewhere that are most relevant to investors interested in retirement planning and investing.
How the Los Angeles Minimum Wage Vote Fails to Help Many Workers
The Los Angeles City Council demonstrated its ignorance of Economics 101 when the panel voted this week 12-1...
Why Investors Shouldn’t Fight the Four Feds
Critics of the current global rally in equities make a big issue of how, if central bank stimulus...
What April’s Jobs Data Means for the Market
The biggest data point on tap this week came early Friday morning before the opening bell, and it...
How Some Euro-Zone Economies Are Gaining Momentum
During the last few months, I've grown increasingly bullish on the euro zone, and subscribers to my PowerOptions Trader service...
More Audio Economic Commentary from Paul Dykewicz
View Paul Dykewicz’s recent interviews on Sunday Nights With Michael Schaus on a variety of political and economic...
Will a Weak Economy Derail the Bull Market?
Yesterday, the first-quarter real Gross Domestic Product (GDP) growth rate came in at an anemic 0.2%, confirming my...
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Economic Slowdown Confirmed by Gross Output and B2B Data
The U.S. economy is slowing but thus far is avoiding a recession, according to the latest data from...
How to Raise the Minimum Wage without Legislation
Walmart and McDonald's recently have raised wages to $9 an hour or more, substantially higher than the federal...
How Fed Interest Rate Changes Differ from Natural Development
This past week, bond king Bill Gross, who now oversees the Janus Global Unconstrained Bond Fund, shed some...
Steve Moore Talks about How to Win the Presidency in 2016, Unions and Money
I spent time last weekend with Steve Moore, the Heritage Foundation’s chief economist and a writer for The...