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The Wall Street Journal on Small Business
The new attitude being adopted by small business owners today; the California city where restaurant holdups have small business owners in panic mode; and with all the storm talk this summer...is your business prepared for a major power outage?
[0:08:38] ... some proposals to ramp up the number of workers enrolled in retirement savings plans including one. ...
[0:08:45] ... program that would allow state residents to deposit money in retirement savings accounts that would being managed by that State's giant California public employees retirement system better known as calpers she says the pension protection act of 2006. Encourages employers to offer the workers financial advice and some of that advice is going beyond retirement savings -- things like. Managing debts are getting a mortgage there are some financial services firms that are trying to figure out how ...
You can afford college
If you’re saving for your child’s college education, you may feel overwhelmed at the price of tuition these days. Fortunately, help is at hand. Lynn O’Shaughnessy, a financial journalist and author of The College Solution: A Guide for Everyone Looking for the Right School at the Right Price, details how you can afford your children’s education. It all starts with remembering that colleges price their degrees like airline tickets, with many different options available if you know how to find them. (8:41)
[0:05:40] ... An easy way to save is to invest in a 529 college savings plan. Money invested in these accounts can grow tax deferred and if it's used to pay for education expenses they can be ...
AP Hourly NewsCast
AP Hourly NewsCast
[0:01:17] ... and negatively. Impact household wealth from family budgets to home values. To savings for college every truck retirement. ...
Waggoner: The credit crisis has people changing habits, sort of
John Waggoner, USA Today's investments columnist and author of "Bailout: What the Rescue of Bear Stearns and the Credit Crisis Mean for Your Investments," says that the credit crisis should get people to cut their spending and lower their debt, but noted that "it would take a brutal recession to get people to really reform their ways, the kind of recession that scars a generation ... and I don't think that has happened yet." In an interview available only on MarketWatch, Waggoner said the seeds of the credit crisis were sown when the technology bubble burst and the Federal Reserve "brought rates down to levels not seen since Ike was in office, which brought about the mortgage boom."
[0:26:47] ... they can earn more than two -- 3%. A year on their savings so that money is going to build seeks someplace where they feel they can get. Higher returns and they will briefly. And ...
AP Hourly NewsCast
AP Hourly NewsCast
[0:00:46] ... From family budgets to home values. To savings for college every truck retirement. ...