Even if you had invested 15 years ago, not long before the start of the greatest secular bear market since the Great Depression, you would have compounded money at 4.72 percent per year. This also would have doubled your money.

NEW YORK -- The U.S. risks a "lost decade" if politicians keep pursuing the same failed policies, according to Mohamed El-Erian, chief executive of th...

Things aren’t going very well for the middle class right now. If you don’t believe us, take a look at these charts. Over the past decade, midd...

Things aren't looking great for America's middle class, and they know it. A significant share of the middle class say it will be a long time befor...

BEIJING -- The head of the International Monetary Fund warned Wednesday the global economy faces the risk of a "lost decade" of little or no growth an...

NEW YORK (Steven C. Johnson) - As the U.S. economy slouches toward another recession and confidence in policymakers erodes, investors are coming t...

Step back from the ledge, America. Scotch the gloomy talk of a Japan-style Lost Decade -- Goldman Sachs says we're alright. Except that Goldman's dismissal of Lost Decade fears is brazenly self-serving. We are very much lost, and have been for decades. And we will remain so for as long as influential people pay attention to the cynical assurances of Goldman, which has mastered the art of digging us deeper into a hole, all the while selling us the shovels.

The downturn that some have dubbed the "Great Recession" has trimmed the typical household's income significantly, new Census data show, following yea...

There is a simple lesson to learn from Japan to help the US avoid another lost decade. Focus on employment. We all benefit when everyone who is willing and able to work has a job.

The phrase "double-dip recession" means little to most of us. To people on Main Street, it hasn't been been a "dip". We took a drop to the bottom two years ago and stayed there.

For the past few months, much commentary on the economy --some of it posing as reporting -- has had one central theme: policy makers are doing too muc...

For most of the past 70 years, the U.S. economy has grown at a steady clip, generating perpetually higher incomes and wealth for American households. ...

Private sector job growth was almost non-existent over the past ten years. Take a look at this horrifying chart:...