Baby boom Quote by Mary Pilon

In 2010 there were a lot of folks who were still out of work. There were a lot of folks who had lost their…

— Barack Obama

There may be a recession in stock prices, but not anything in the nature of a crash.

— Irving Fisher

The retirement financial crisis will affect far more people than baby boomers, and certainly it will affect their children. Most of the retirees and…

— Hedrick Smith

The stock market crash in October 1929 didn't destroy a particularly large amount of wealth or make people highly pessimistic. Rather, it made companies…

— Christina Romer

After 1929, so many people had been traumatized by the stock market crash that there was a lost generation.

— Ron Chernow

Like, people are less likely to invest in their retirement when they have more options in their 401K plans than when they have fewer.

— Sheena Iyengar

More money is lost anticipating the changes in the overall stock market than any other way of investing.

— Peter Lynch

Labor force participation peaked in early 2000, so its decline began well before the Great Recession. A portion of that decline clearly relates to…

— Janet Yellen

An irresistable footnote: in 1971, pension fund managers invested a record 122% of net funds available in equities - at full prices they couldn't…

— Warren Buffett

“39 percent of stocks had a negative total return. (Two out of every five stocks are money-losing investments.)”

— John Del Vecchio

I wish we had something better to do at our crappy jobs than check our disappearing 401(k)s which ensures we'll be stuck forever at…

— Anonymous

“In the 1950s, U.S. employees nationwide paid collectively about 11 percent of their retirement costs. By the mid-2000s, they were paying 51 percent. Hundreds…

— Hedrick Smith