When it comes to their retirement, America's 50-somethings seem to be in a state of denial. Although the economic downturn has forced pre-retirees ages 50 to 59 to consider working years longer than they had hoped, their current rate of savings is

As millions of baby boomers prepare to retire, "the inevitable talent drain threatens to alter the national economy," says Ithaca College sociologist Stephen Sweet, referring to a recent report he coauthored, released by the Sloan Center on Aging &

One of 2009's biggest personal finance stories was the capture of Bernard Madoff, creator of the biggest Ponzi scheme in history. If you read the headlines and told yourself it didn't affect you because you weren't rich enough to be snared by such

Credit unions here say they've been finding ways to absorb hefty new assessments last year to help replenish a national deposit insurance fund that was tapped to help out two big institutions in distress. They fear this year's assessments could be