I expect positive employment numbers to touch off consumer spending, home buying and automobile demand.

”People ask why I’m a long-term investor. I’m not against making money in the short term. I just don’t know how to do it.”

Own conservative stocks that pay rising dividends. PetSmart, Aaron’s and Family Dollar all qualify.

2009 was a textbook case of how stock markets are supposed to react to big bear markets and recessions.

Bucks’ lead blogger, Jennifer Saranow Schultz, resolves to update a budget she and her husband made a few years ago.

Jean-Marie Eveillard left a golden legacy at First Eagle funds–a slug of the yellow metal in each portfolio to hedge against disaster.

Former Wall Streeters David Pottruck and Phil Purcell are helping a startup snatch fed-up brokers–and assets–from the big financial firms.

A look back on the year in stocks, an investigation into tainted meat, the latest on airline security and other consumer stories from the Times, in print and online.

Does gold provide retirement security?

A lawsuit by the City of Memphis says bank officials steered blacks toward high-interest subprime loans.