GenerationY

In the not-too-distant future, your bank may look quite a bit more futuristic than it does now. And if it does, it'll be because banks are listening to the wants and needs of Generation Y. Cisco's Internet Business Solutions Group (IBSG) recently conducted a study of 1,055 American consumers to...

Just like the Great Depression shaped the financial mindset of our grandparents and great grand-parents, so the Great Recession right now is doing a similar thing to teens and twentysomethings. They don't trust banks, don't plan to invest in the stock market, they don't even want to get...

It's a tough time to be young. For workers under 29, the unemployment rate jumped over 11% in December compared with less than 9% a year earlier. Overall unemployment is at 7.2% percent compared with 4.9% a year ago. The increase among young people is actually smaller as a percent -- a jump of 22%...

A few years back, my buddy Chris taught me about bluegrass music. Because we lived in southwest Virginia, it was easy to go to bluegrass concerts and festivals, and it seemed like half the bars in my area hosted a bluegrass night with live music. In 2000 and 2001, one of the themes of my education...