Bill gross, the ?Bond King? is going to great lengths to get us to understand that the world is in a state of reversion to what he and El-Erian, his co-chief at PIMCO coined as the ?new Normal? 3 months ago, in his latest missive – ?Bon? or ?non? App?tit?.
Our economy which once feasted, no, binged, unable to stop itself, on debt and leverage, and on the basis that home and other asset prices would rise to the sky, is now fasting, cleansing itself of the fat that accumulated, and …

Lower tax rates may not get the economy back on track again. but they may spare investors from a nasty little sell-off at the end of the month.
Yes Virginia, there is a Santa Claus rally

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Financial advisor Dennis Tubbergen agrees with Colin Powell’s comments – spending freezes are ‘inefficent.’
Grand Rapids, MI — (SBWIRE) — 02/09/2011 — Dennis Tubbergen, financial advisor and CEO of USA Wealth Management, LLC, a federally-registered investment advisory company, spends a lot of time discussing such important topics as unemployment and the economy in the U.S. and how politics affect those important subjects. He recently explained to the readers of his financial blog and the 7,000 financial advisors who receive his monthly newsletter, Smarter Not Harder, why he agrees with the comments …

The U.S. housing market may take five or six more years to recover, TrimTabs Investment Research warned recently. Madeline Schnapp, director of macroeconomic research at TrimTabs, talks to MarketWatch’s Alistair Barr about what that means for the world’s largest economy.

Video: Housing Market Still Has Long Road to Recovery

In the coming days and weeks, leading Democrats will make the case that their historic trouncing at the polls last night was the inevitable fallout of a brutal economy. There’s a bit of d?j? vu here: George Bush blamed his plummeting approval ratings on an unpopular war.
It’s not just the economy, stupid

10 Deadly Sins of Retirement
Retirement Wreckers to Avoid
Warning: make the wrong decisions in today’s treacherous economy, and it could kill the retirement of your dreams. it doesn’t matter if you’re 30 or 70, your nest egg is at risk, and the money moves you make now are critical. do you want to live on baked beans and boxed macaroni and cheese in your twilight years? We didn’t think so! So click through our gallery as the Dolans warn you about 10 deadly sins of retirement planning.
10 Deadly Sins of Retirement
Sin …

Charitable giving is on the rise, thanks to a slowly improving economy that?s making people a little less fearful they?ll get a pink slip instead of a holiday bonus. still, many need to mind their budgets when opening their hearts. Heed these tips to stretch your donated dollars.

More Americans are in a giving mood again

The great debate on Wall Street is whether the recovery that spurred stock prices to nearly double between March 2009 and April 2010 is about to be snuffed out. The evidence for a “double dip” recession: Europe’s economy is teetering; federal stimulus that propped up the credit and housing markets is nearly exhausted; retail sales and manufacturing are declining again.
Stop worrying about a double dip

Surprise! The economy isn’t all rainbows, puppies, kittens and sunshine after all.
The overcast economy: Get used to it