Starting this new year of 2011, an average 7000 baby boomers will be turning 65 every day through 2029. By 2030, an estimated 78 million Americans will be at least 66, and the retirees, their surviving spouses or dependents may ...Read more
Almost three weeks ago – on November 10, to be exact, Alan Simpson and Erskine Bowles , bipartisan co-chairs of Obama’s National Commission on Fiscal Responsibility and Reform, released a draft of what they believe is the best way to ...Read more
Last Monday, the Euro soared against the dollar after a near-trillion-dollar bailout of the currency that unites the European Union (EU) was announced. This Monday, it dropped to a four-year low. What are the lessons here, and ...Read more
Greece’s current fiscal and financial crisis easily reminds us that governments can get too big to succeed, but its more important lesson may lie elsewhere – so obvious that it’s sometimes hard to see. Greece should make us mindful of ...Read more
Americans’ top concerns these days are unemployment, deficits and debt. The rate of unemployment seems stuck at a level economically and ethically unacceptable, and efforts to bring it down appear ineffective and extremely expensive, especially in the context of runaway ...Read more
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