Even if retirement is in the future, you should start planning as early as possible. In fact living well in retirement depends a lot on how you will plan it early on. Of course you can always rely on you Social Security or company retirement plan, but...

A $2.1 billion drop in California tax collection is opening a hole in Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger’s budget only three months after lawmakers in the most-populous state slashed spending for the second time in a year. General fund revenue in the...

In the dinosaur saga “Jurassic Park,” author Michael Crichton wrote about a man who believed a tyrannosaurus couldn’t see him if he held still. The carnivore ate him.Later in the book, someone asks what killed the man. Another character...

Home values in 20 U.S. cities climbed in July by the most in almost four years, helping stem the record plunge in household wealth that’s depressed spending. The S&P/Case-Shiller home-price index rose 1.2 percent in July from the prior month, the...

The worst U.S. recession since the Great Depression eased more than anticipated in the second quarter, setting the stage for a recovery to take hold in the last half of 2009.The world’s largest economy shrank at a 0.7 percent annual rate from April...