Let's give Anthony Scaramucci, an economic adviser to Trump, the benefit of the doubt when he compares the fiduciary rule to the 1857 Supreme Court ruling which held that African-Americans were property, not U.S. citizens. If it were me, I would apologize and move on.

The future affordability of the U.S. health care system depends on implementing exactly these sorts of changes. Todays employers have the opportunity to be on the leading edge of that movement.

The 2017 Social Security cost-of-living adjustment (COLA) will take effect for more than 60 million Social Security beneficiaries beginning in January 2017. But it's not much.