choices

The day before Thanksgiving was a moment of reckoning for white-collar workers who were offered buyout deals.

Q: My company will offer some new choices for health benefit plans during its open-enrollment period. What are the most important things to consider when picking a plan?

What brought down the markets? Bad choices, greed — and never learning from past mistakes

The 401(k) providers don't actually care how they make money, just as long as they make a tidy profit. That's why so many providers offer the employer low-cost plans and make up the difference by offering the employees very expensive mutual fund options.

These 401(k) providers make a bundle off of the really lousy choices they offer the employees.

(University of Chicago Press Journals) Most of us have stood in a supermarket aisle, overwhelmed with the array of choices.

Making those choices is easier if the options are categorized, according to new research in the Journal of Consumer Research.

Airlines are cutting jobs, mothballing planes and reducing flights as they battle record fuel costs that have pushed the industry to its worst crisis since 2001, and the result is likely to be higher fares and fewer choices for travelers.