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Seven retirement questions you need to answer
Retirement planning isn't easy. Nearly half of Americans don't feel financially prepared to live to age 75, according to a survey from Northwestern Mutual. But the process is a lot less burdensome if you break the task down into simpler parts. Here are seven questions to ask as you plan for your long-term financial security in retirement.
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Five Senate races to watch
The political turmoil of 2010 has led to a number of close Senate races, with control of the upper chamber possibly in the balance. Here are five of the closest, most interesting, hardest-fought Senate races of this election cycle.
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Stocks rally to erase steep losses
Stocks closed mixed Wednesday after a late rally erased steep losses. The Dow lost seven points to close at 12496
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JPMorgan Chase trading fiasco: What to do about big banks?
JPMorgan's loss of $2 billion shows that the forces that unleashed the recession remain partially untamed – and that Congress is still struggling to get a handle on the solution.
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The Entrepreneurial Mind
How to find a small business-friendly bank
Using FDIC data, one online tool grades banks on their commitments to small business lending.
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The Daily Reckoning
The financial industry's growth is stunting everything else
The financial industry was 2.5 percent of the economy when World War II ended. Now, it is 8.5 percent. How did it get so big, and what are the costs?
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JP Morgan losses send Wall Street back to Capitol Hill (+video)
Congressional critics plan hearings to probe how America's largest bank posted $2 billion in trading losses – and whether new financial regulations, still being implemented, go far enough to rein in Wall Street abuses
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Seven retirement questions you need to answer
Retirement planning isn't easy. Nearly half of Americans don't feel financially prepared to live to age 75, according to a survey from Northwestern Mutual. But the process is a lot less burdensome if you break the task down into simpler parts. Here are seven questions to ask as you plan for your long-term financial security in retirement.
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The Simple Dollar
Student loans are $300,000. Prepay them or save?
Student loans are so high, couple wonders whether to pay them off early or save $5,000 a year for retirement. Question on student loans is No. 6 in this reader mailbag.
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The Circle Bastiat
What Bernanke gets wrong about the gold standard
The redistribution created by the Fed’s monetary pumping actually weakens the economy over time as real savings is squandered on malinvestments. With gold as money, real production and savings is stimulated. Federal Reserve chairman Ben Bernanke doesn't understand that.
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Bankruptcy court lets Washington Mutual reorganize
Bankruptcy reorganization calls for failed bank to distribute $7 billion to creditors and 418 million to shareholders. Bankruptcy proceedings took more than three years.
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The New Economy
Why banks shun 30 million Americans
A quarter of US households have few or no ties to the banking system, which hurts their financial future. Financial reform has made it even harder for banks to serve them.
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The Simple Dollar
Credit card use: Which rewards card is best for you?
Credit card use works best when you have a card that grants rewards at the vendors you use most. Credit card use is question six in today's mailbag
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Bank bailout in US offers roadmap for crisis in Europe
Analysis: The bank bailout of 2008-2009 could be a guide for the euro zone – but will it be a good guide? Remember that the US's bank bailout angered many Americans.
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Robert Reich
Why Obama should call for a breakup of big banks
What better way for the president to distinguish himself from Romney than to condemn Wall Street’s antics since the bailout and call for real reform?
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FDIC closes four banks. Annual total: 84 so far.
FDIC seizes banks in Georgia, Florida, and Colorado. At this point last year, the FDIC had shuttered 139 banks.
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The Circle Bastiat
It's not easy being a bank
Regulators are proposing massive new compliance burden on banks to prove that their market-making activities are just that and not proprietary trading in disguise
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On the Economy
Housing market: Prevention over correction
The housing doldrums have more to do with a failure of preventative policies, not corrective ones.
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Debt-limit brink: Can ordinary investors run for cover? Should they?
As the clock ticks down on the debt-limit deadline, financial advisers say the worst thing ordinary investors can do is panic and sell. The assumption is still that some kind of deal will get done.
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The Circle Bastiat
Big Ag boom is thanks to state subsidies
Farmers planted a near record number of acres of corn this season, which has caused corn futures to sink
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The Simple Dollar
Retirement income: Invest in 401(k) or Roth IRA?
Retirement income funds can go to Roth IRA, but only up to maximum allowed. Question No. 9 in today's reader mailbag.
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The Circle Bastiat
Peer-to-peer lending grows
Individuals and small businesses are increasingly turning to peer-to-peer lending websites since it can be difficult to get a bank loan
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Even your money-market fund could be hit by Greek default
Nearly half of US mutual fund assets are invested in European banks, some of which face big losses in case of a Greek default. Banks could see their ratings downgraded after a Greek default.
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Prepaid cards: once a niche, now mainstream
Prepaid cards are fastest-growing method of payment. American Express is first large financial company to offer prepaid cards.
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The Reformed Broker
Too big not to despise
Statistics about the largest financial institutions' earnings make it hard to like them
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Stocks close lower after choppy session
The Dow fell about 25 points, after rising and falling throughout the session. A positive call on commodities by Goldman Sachs drove up the price of oil and metals.
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The Simple Dollar
401(k): Not eligible yet? Open an IRA.
401(k) eligibility doesn't kick in for 11 months. Open a Roth IRA in the meantime. See question No. 6 in the reader mailbag.
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