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Earnings down but not out

May 23, 2019 at 5:22 p.m.

Only two months ago, people were wondering if they should yank money from bleeding investments in 401(k)s and IRAs and run for cover as the stock market went into a...

Vivian Pham wipes down tables during her summer job as an associate at Yogurtland in Huntington Beach, Calif. A student at Golden West College, she didn't work during high school as her mom encouraged her to focus on her studies and sports during school instead of working.

Working during college doesn’t always pay, study says

June 16, 2018 at 12:18 p.m.

There was a time when students could work their way through college and end up with a four-year degree and no debt. But not anymore. "You have to work, but...

Nationally, 69 percent of students who graduated from public and private nonprofit colleges in 2014 have student loan debt and left school with an average of $28,950 in loans, according to a study done by the Institute for College Access and Success.

Illinois college students feeling loan pain

May 25, 2019 at 1:00 p.m.

Despite all the attention being paid to the nation's $1.3 trillion in student loan debt, borrowing is growing, and the burdens are especially painful for students in Illinois colleges. Nationally,...

New home sales enter a surprising slowdown

June 16, 2018 at 1:22 p.m.

The market for new homes suddenly appears to have entered a surprising slowdown, with September sales of newly built homes falling 11.5 percent, hitting the lowest monthly level since last...

Retirees can stretch their savings with Roth IRAs

June 16, 2018 at 1:35 p.m.

Are you afraid of running out of money in retirement? That fear is so great among retirees that it exceeds the fear of dying, according to one AARP survey. And...

Average credit score for homebuyers falls to 723

June 16, 2018 at 1:44 p.m.

Bankers are becoming a little less fussy about the credit scores they demand from people who want to buy or refinance a house. In September, the average FICO score fell...

Millennials and extended families could qualify for easier mortgages

June 16, 2018 at 1:08 p.m.

Two initiatives announced this week may make it easier for millennials and middle-income homebuyers, who typically have a hard time getting mortgages, to get the financing they need. Quicken Loans,...

Former Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke, shown in Washington in March, was in Chicago on Tuesday, Oct. 14, 2015, to promote his book, "The Courage to Act: A Memoir of a Crisis and Its Aftermath."

Bernanke: U.S. should have prosecuted individuals after collapse

June 16, 2018 at 2:05 p.m.

Former Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke knows Americans have not forgiven him for the Wall Street bailout that saw greed in financial company executive suites go unpunished while regular people...

Bernanke takes credit for fixing (and blame for causing) financial crisis

May 23, 2019 at 5:22 p.m.

You never would have guessed that the Chicago Cubs were in the midst of winning the National League Division Series on Tuesday night. Instead of watching the game, hundreds of...

Research shows that even when African-Americans and Hispanics are earning the same salaries as whites, they aren't accumulating nearly as much wealth.

Why do blacks and Hispanics accumulate less wealth than whites?

June 16, 2018 at 2:09 p.m.

You have to have money to make money. And while few would argue that you can enter the stock market, buy a home or start a business if you are...

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