This week on the Ric Edelman show, stock market fears and how to appropriately react to those fears and watching out for crooks playing on your emotions involving natrual disasters. Also, despite what you may have heard in a radio ad Edelman Financial Engines is doing fine, and Steve Vernon a Research Scholar at the Stanford Center on Longevity joins Ric Edelman to talk about social security. Later, after eleven years US households have gained back their 2008 recession losses but inflations means this isn't as good as it sounds, statistics show that women are less financially literate than men, and should you use a retirement plan at work if they don't match your contributions.