Opponents of the Department of Labors proposed fiduciary rule have been threatening for months to use the appropriations process to defund the DOL's new fiduciary standard. Now the showdown is coming.

Take it from todays young hipsters: Retail, construction and manufacturing are way not cool.

A new study, conducted by the Urban Institute and commissioned by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, found that premiums for silver plans increased an average of 4.3 percent.

Any financial professional who did what the government wants to do with its myRA program would be sued for malpractice.