Financial Planning

• Social Security Board of Trustees: Projected Trust Fund Exhaustion – Three Years Sooner Than Last Year Valeo Financial Advisors

Markets

• See the 11 biggest Internet IPOs in U.S. history Yahoo! Finance
• Trading Time: 220 Years at the New York Stock Exchange. Slide-show: Securities Technology Monitor

U.S. Economy

• Retail Sales Slow; Consumer Prices Flat NPR
• Capacity utilization rises to 79.2 percent, the highest level in four years Chart: St. Louis Federal Reserve

U.S. Dollar

• Where Dollar Bills Come From, and the declining use of cash and checks Planet Money
• With 11 straight up days in a row, the Dollar index is tied for its longest winning streak ever. Bespoke

Europe

• The German economy is “responsible for 65% of the region’s growth in output on average since 2007” The Economist