Due to the enormous loss of wealth that was ubiquitous in the US, 2009 is a year to forget for most Americans. As we welcome in a new year—and a new decade—there is a higher level of uncertainty about the country’s future than there has been in my lifetime: we are in multiple foreign wars, fac...

Earlier today Ben Bernanke, the Chairman of the Federal Reserve, announced that the Fed would be leaving the nation’s key interest rate at its current “exceptionally low” level. Since December of last year, the rate has been set at 0 to .25-percent in an effort to spur lending throughout the c...

It’s well known that the bank stress tests were as much a measure to build confidence as to shore up ailing banking practices, so it wasn’t a surprise when 9 of the 19 banks that underwent the stress test passed with flying colors.  The other 10 banks were asked to raise additional capital in t...