BY NIKOLAJ NIELSEN BRUSSELS – Corruption and lack of transparency are endemic throughout the EU, with direct links to the economic crisis. The damning conclusion…
Here’s an excerpt of the email to Smith from a reader named Elizabeth:
After several years of stocking up on food, ammo, precious metals and the like, my husband and I seemed to hit a dead end. The nagging thought kept occurring to me, “What do we d…
In both late 1999 and 2007 we warned against the mentality that caused investors to overlook the dire-looking events that were swirling all around them. The warnings were generally ignored on the grounds that you couldn’t fight against a market tha…
Financial literacy won’t fix everything
On Wednesday December 8, 2010, 11:50 am EST
By Linda Stern
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Financial literacy has become a huge catchphrase — the one idea upon which consumer advocates and bankers, borrowers and lender…