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The amount of professional athletes who run out of money just a few years after leaving sports is around 70% for football and basketball. It really is remarkable considering how much they make these days. 

The Agenda Project Action Fund, a progressive public policy group, is still touting its misleading “Throw Granny from the Cliff” ads, purporting to show that GOP vice presidential candidate Paul Ryan seeks to end Medicare as we know it. It's all misleading and false.

The buzz surrounding Social Security is distracting, but when it comes down to it, it can be fairly simple to calculate the best time to start taking benefits. 

When teaching others to use options, I ask students to possibly start with writing covered calls.

Emac: Standard Chartered is in talks to settle allegations that its New York branch conducted $250 billion in transactions with Iran in violation of U.S. sanctions.

Alan Brochstein identifies nine stocks with potential price and fundamental momentum near their 52-week highAs I type, the S&P 500 is posting new highs for the summer, crossing 1400 for the first time since early May and sitting within 1.5% of the 1422 interim top set in early April.

A school district north of San Diego borrowed $105 million over 40 years by selling a bond so unusual that the State of Michigan outlawed it years ago. Taxpayers in the area will end up with a nearly $1 billion bill at the end of this deal.

California is now scrambling because it got hypnotized and overstated by a factor of nearly 50% the amount of capital gains tax revenue that it thought was coming in from the Facebook IPO.

TradeKing Midday Market Call Recap: SPX, RUT, VIX, GOOGRecap for Tuesday, August 7th by Kevin CorriganDid you miss Tuesday’s TradeKing Midday Market Call?

ExxonMobil is looking like it may be a good buy with crude prices on the rise, but wait for it to close above resistance.

Alan Brochstein identifies 8 Consumer stocks that have dropped more than 20%We are more than halfway through earnings season, which has been rather eventful thus far.

Wall Street was waiting on Thursday for more information on the European Central Bank's plans to steer the eurozone economy out of its slump and fresh data on the U.S. labor market. 

Recap for Tuesday, July 31 by Kevin CorriganDid you miss Tuesday’s TradeKing Midday Market Call?

There is generally a lot of strategizing involved to reduce a taxpayer’s adjusted gross income and as of right now--it's all legal.

Where did the middle class really go? And what is the reality behind income inequality?

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Paying close attention to so-called ‘gaps’ on a chart can make a nice short-term trade, but trader beware, the move can quickly reverse itself.

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The federal overseer of the government’s bank bailout program says taxpayers are still owed $132.9 billion on investments in 458 bailed-out banks and companies.