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Cait Murphy

• Executive Compensation: Why the Fed Should Steer Clear of Banker Pay

  The Fed is proposing to get involved in overseeing pay at the nation’s banks in order to reduce risk in the financial system. But executive pay isn’t really the right issue to focus on. Feinberg’s proposals to shift a portion of executive salaries into stock options that would not...

  Articles | Oct 6, 2009

• Why Oil Prices Are So Volatile

  Oil prices have been all over the map this past year: as high as $145 and as low as $30. Here’s what’s causing the big swings — plus some experts’ bets on where prices are headed now. Crude Oil Prices 2000-Present What’s Driving Prices There are four major factors that...

  Articles | Sep 1, 2009

• ‘Cash For Clunkers’: Did It Work?

  Sure, the program boosted sales and put more-efficient cars on the road. But a look behind the numbers reveals some surprising side effects. Their bosses, who do not allow sales people to speak to reporters, would doubtless agree. Both Ford and GM gave the Car...

  Articles | Aug 24, 2009

• What’s Next: 4 Big Predictions for the U.S. Economy

  The global landscape has changed for good. Here are our biggest predictions for after the shakeout — plus suggestions for what you should do about them. Things look a bit different now. Our financial sector has been exposed as a sham, GM is bankrupt, unemployment is...

  Articles | Jun 22, 2009

• After the Great Recession

  The recession will end eventually. And the economy, the workplace, and the markets will return to something we’ll learn to call normal. But it won’t be like any normal you’ve seen before.So, where do we go from here? The world’s most powerful economy has been laid low by the...

  Articles | Jun 22, 2009

• The Real Price of Life in Bailout Nation

  Author and popular blogger Barry Ritholtz blasts Uncle Sam’s massive economic intervention and warns that the cure for recession could be worse than the disease. What is the most common misconception about the crisis? That this was a perfect storm of unexpected and unavoidable...

  Articles | May 29, 2009

• What a GM Bankruptcy Would Mean to You

  As goes GM, so goes the nation? While it would be a landmark event and a blow to national pride, the failure of the country’s largest carmaker would not be the cataclysm you might expect. How the Economy Will Take It Under Chapter 11, the form of bankruptcy that is on the...

  Articles | May 5, 2009

• The Lost Culture of Saving

  Social scientist Barbara Dafoe Whitehead discusses the institutions and forces that conspire against saving, and how we can change them. According to Whitehead, shortsighted government policy and a financial system based on greed turned Americans away from thrift… Even before it was...

  Articles | Mar 5, 2009

• Is Saving More a Good Thing?

  Americans have cut down dramatically on spending and ratcheted up their savings rates. And while that’s good for the economy long term, helping to finance valuable investment, in the short term, it’s only making our economic woes worse…A recent store visit underscores just how dramatically...

  Articles | Mar 9, 2009

• The Fruits of Frugality

  Despite our recent history, Americans haven’t always been spendthrifts: from 1950 to 1992, the saving rate averaged 8.6 percent. What a return to a savings rate that high might look like in terms of social habits, the country’s mood, and our position in the world…In the wake of the worst...

  Articles | Mar 17, 2009