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Jolie Solomon

Author Biography

Jolie Solomon is sitting in for Stacey Bradford, who is on maternity leave. She has been a reporter, writer, or editor at many publications, including The Wall Street Journal, Newsweek, Fortune Small Business, More and the the late lamented Cincinnati Post.

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• Does Your Family Live on Main Street or Wall Street?

  Yes, it's a loaded question. Wall Street these days is wall-to-wall Gordon Gekko, Dick Fuld, and UAW freeloaders. In other words: greed, avarice, incompetence, highly compensated incompetence, and other supposedly un-American activities. Main Street, of course, is none of these things. It may...

  Blog posts | Nov 3, 2009

• Showdown in Chicago: When the Personal (Finance) Gets Political

  Is your Fidelity relationship manager a Ditto head? Does your accountant have a crush on Rachel Maddow? Will the BankAmerica call-center staffer vote Republican? These may not be top-of-mind questions for the average American citizen busy feeding her 401 (k) statements into a shredder. But...

  Blog posts | Oct 26, 2009

• Organize Your Finances: You May Find Hidden Money

  If you're one of those efficient, organized, motivated people with a pristine credit rating and no real skill set in procrastination, stop reading now. (And don't expect me to go drinking with you, either.) This is for the rest of us. We who have piles of financial paper cluttering up the...

  Blog posts | Oct 22, 2009

• What "The Good Wife" Can Teach Us About the New Normal

  If the recession is over, we want to know, what do we call this? Economists have an answer: "The New Normal." At first glance, it's almost reassuring. New has that nice, shiny, fresh-from-the-package lilt. Normal is good, right? It's not abnormal... Then you get it. The "New Normal" is...

  Blog posts | Oct 19, 2009

• OMG! Teens Are Not Spending!

  You know the economy's still rotten when the sales clerks at Aeropostale are smiling at you, the Mom or Dad. Not long ago, a parent was persona non grata at stores like this. You could practically feel the force field at the entrance to Hollister. But the decline in teen spending is so...

  Blog posts | Oct 16, 2009