Once an esteemed and educated professional, at age seventy-nine she never imagined she'd be forced to wander the country in search of work, and choose between eating or paying her bills.
The malaise was evident even in the holiday month of December – and it turns out that nagging feeling was right. U.S. economic growth virtually ground to a halt, and 2016 is shaping up to be even more sluggish.
For years hundreds of tonnes of German gold was stored securely in Paris and under the streets of New York. But as financial crisis looms in the EU, the reserves have come home.
2016 has been a monster of a year and it's not even a month old. But for one stealth asset the clouds are parting, vindicating longtime proponents.
When speed is the name of the game in trading stocks he who has the most machines wins. But how much do you lose?
The phrase "You can bank on it" was once an indicator of how solid and reliable we all knew our local lenders to be. But these days what you can really bank on is daily news stories that shake our faith in these once-respected institutions.
A discontented superpower whose population is getting poorer and hungrier waiting for oil prices to recover – just what an increasingly unstable world needed.
Do self-proclaimed experts really have secret insights into the workings of the market? Or is their guess really as good as yours?
January's stock market saw trillions of dollars in equities vaporized. As bad as that was for your 401(k), the trajectory it marks out for the rest of 2016 is worse.
We'd be crazy not to enjoy low gas prices and big savings on home heating oil this winter. But what's the real cost to our economy, our portfolios and our future?