There’s no doubt about it. Filing for Social Security can be daunting. There’s a ton of information – and misinformation – to weed through, as well as the need for some calculations based on several variables. Your benefits depend on your age, how long you’ve worked, what you earned, your marital status and your number of dependents. It seems like you have to factor in everything but your IQ…

Tuesday was the summer solstice, the longest day of the year and the beginning of the astronomical summer. The day is thought of as the perfect time of year as Americans get as many as eight additional hours of sunlight relative to the shortest day of the year in December, and temperatures are mild relative to the heat and humidity of July and August…

This is a question that economists are asked every time there is market turbulence. My instinctive answer is that the stock market is not the economy, which is also an easy answer to give, considering that markets are more forward looking than economists’ data points. But it is also true that markets have been wrong before and are prone to overreact to news that may or may not have consequences for economic activity…