TSP Stock Funds Drop Again: Get a Grip and Put the Current Market in Perspective
Your TSP funds have probably taken a dramatic hit. Put the situation in perspective before hitting the panic button and making decisions you may regret later.
Your TSP funds have probably taken a dramatic hit. Put the situation in perspective before hitting the panic button and making decisions you may regret later.
For the first time in our survey of this year’s presidential election, Barack Obama moves ahead of John McCain in reader preference. Here is a quick summary along with the reasons underlying readers’ preferences.
A temporary government spending bill will fund the federal government into March of next year. It also contains an average pay raise for federal employees of 3.9% that will be effective in January.
The President has issued an Executive Order that authorizes noncompetitive appointments to federal jobs for spouses of military personnel.
Where does most of the blame reside for the current mortgage/credit crisis? What do readers think of the bailout plan and would they support such the bailout proposal? Here is a summary of the views of those responding to our survey this week.
NATCA President Patrick Forrey says that a recent article on the labor portion of the 2008 Democratic Party’s platform obscures the issues “through the recalling of the most unfortunate incident in Federal labor-management relations history.”
Are you retiring at the end of the year? If so, here are several tips that may make the process less stressful.
A male applicant selected for a job at the Library of Congress had his job offer rescinded when he told the agency he would be starting the new job as a woman.
Are stock market investors at “the point of maximum pessimism”? It isn’t possible to know but there is plenty of evidence to think we are at least in the vicinity. Here is a chart that shows how stocks have fared after dramatic one-day drops and how the stocks had fared one year later.
Thomas Beck and Carol Pope’s hearings for appointment to the FLRA were held on September 11. Amid some Bush bashing, hints on the Democrats future plans for Federal labor relations were provided by the only Senator present for the hearing.