| Sep 18, 2013 | Economy / BusinessThe future just keeps getting brighter for Americans with unique specialties. Randy Stearns has one such specialty: “home-tech integration.” Stearns helps people install and maintain high-tech gadgets. But we’re not talking “Geek Squad”...
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| Sep 11, 2013 | Economy / BusinessYou’re the top 1 percent. You pocket one out of every five dollars of the nation’s income — more than double your slice of that pie in 1976. You want even more, but the masses are catching on. What do you do? You get your minions to attack the bottom 1...
| | Economy / BusinessHow’s your 401(k) doing? Working Americans ask themselves this question — and angst about the answer — a great deal these days. And why not? For most Americans, retirement reality has turned chillingly stark: Either you have a robust set of investments in your...
| Sep 4, 2013 | Economy / BusinessFour and a half miles due East of the U.S. Capitol is a neighborhood called Capitol View. It sits on a hill that offers that iconic view of the Capitol and the Washington Monument that symbolizes official Washington. But the view feels less than majestic for the...
| | Economy / BusinessFifty years ago, average Americans lived in a society where less than $10 of every $100 in personal income went to the nation’s richest 1 percent. Our top 1 percent are now grabbing just under 20 percent of America’s income, double the 1963 level. How did...
