Confusing politics with corporate profits and the state of the economy is not the ideal way to invest.

These 3 errors can lead to employees losing retirement savings rather than being as prepared as they'd planned.

Here are some finance books to check out over the holidays and new year -- some are classics, some may be a bit off the beaten path.

Lessons learned from the public-policy experiment in Kansas are applicable to the world of HR.

The nastiest problem in finance is de-accumulation or 'decumulation,' the use of savings in retirement -- does Nobel laureate William Sharpe have a solution?

Here's a modest proposal that wont cost very much and has enormous potential benefits: Raise the ceiling on contributions to individual retirement accounts (IRAs), 401(k)s and other tax-deferred retirement-savings accounts.

What do investors fear -- and more properly, what should they fear?

Some time ago, I suggested that we would eventually learn whether higher minimum wages were going to kill jobs. The early data is in, and so far it doesnt look like they do.