If not stocks, then where? (AP Photo/Ahn Young-joon)
Personal Finance
Navigating today’s sinking market
Why investing in stocks may not be a great idea now
The election and your money
How the market will react to Obama and McCain
Doing good, good returns
Socially responsible investments are outperforming
Are stocks a bargain?
Market gurus disagree on the wisdom of buying now
The downturn and your job
How safe is you job, and what can you do?
What to do with your money now?
Thoughts on investing in this down market
Playing chicken with the market
Is it time to pull out your retirement savings?
Best columns: Blogger bling, Saving winter
“Bloggers create 900,000 blog posts a day worldwide,” says Michael Agger in Slate, and some of them even make money doing it. Winter is coming—literally and probably in financial terms, too, says Gwendolyn Bounds in The Wall Street Journal, so now’s a good time to save power and save money.
Best columns: Pushing trust, Self-bailout
Americans, unfortunately, appear “more interested in punishing Wall Street than saving the economy,” says David Leonhardt in The New York Times. Consumers should “do precisely what the government has been talking about,” says Chuck Jaffe in MarketWatch, “namely bailing themselves out of debt.”
Best columns: Bailout focus, Investing fortitude
Congress has a real challenge in “the bare-bones $700 billion” Wall Street bailout plan, says David Leonhardt in The New York Times, and it shouldn’t get distracted. Should you stop contributing to your 401(k) until the markets settle down? says Money’s Walter Updegrave in CNNMoney.com.
Best columns: Value surfing, Retirement trust
Calling “the bottom in a stock market crash is a fool’s game,” says Brett Arends in The Wall Street Journal, but there’s “value out there in the market” now. I bet you’re relieved that Lehman Brothers and the other “financial wizards of Wall Street” aren’t handling your Social Security, says Chris Farrell in BusinessWeek online.
Best columns: Cool-hand Hank, Holding fast
Treasury Secretary Hank Paulson “knows when to hold ’em and when to fold ’em,” says Steven Pearlstein in The Washington Post. “When an institution of Lehman’s size and clout goes under,” says Jonathan Burton in MarketWatch, “it’s understandable to wonder if your money is safe.”
Best columns: Un-free market, Buying time
Whatever happened to “self-reliance,” “individual responsibility,” and “a faith in free markets”? says Steven Pearlstein in The Washington Post. “One of the many paradoxes of the stock market,” says Brett Arends in The Wall Street Journal, “is that the worse it gets, the better it gets—at least, for those still able to invest.”
Best columns: Playing CDs, Parking cash
Lots of banks are struggling through the credit crunch, says Joan Goldwasser in Kiplinger’s, but “their pain is your gain.” Here’s where to park your cash, says Eric Dash in The New York Times, now that it’s no longer “the most boring of assets.”
