Retirement Advisor

The stock market is starting to feed economic fear, not just reflect it.

Laid-off workers and aging baby boomers are flooding Social Security's disability program with benefit claims, pushing the financially strapped system toward the brink of insolvency.

FINRA Regulatory Notice 10-06, issued in January 2010, addressed Guidance on Blogs and Social Networking Web Sites, and it opened the floodgates for creative financial firms to use sites such as Facebook and Twitter in financial marketing.

As the nation tightens its budget belt, the century-old military retirement system has come under attack as unaffordable, unfair to some who serve and overly generous compared with civilian benefits.

Getting tough on wellness, fired for not wearing a Speedo, and why Joe You Lie Wilson feels vindicated these days.

Total U.S. money market mutual fund assets increased $10.21 billion to $2.631 trillion for the week that ended Wednesday, the Investment Company Institute said Thursday.

Stocks plunged worldwide Thursday as more signs of economic weakness revived investors' fears of another recession. The Dow Jones industrial average fell 400 points in a return to the wild swings in the market last week.

Discouraging economic data from around the globe have heightened fears that another recession is on the way.