Tomorrow is April Fool’s Day. That means you’ll be tempted to believe and pass along some crazy story published by a site you’ve never heard of, which makes an unsubstantiated claim about something controversial that you wish were true. Who am I kidding? Every day is April Fool’s Day on [Keep reading]
Leave the dogs at home or take ’em with you? This is the eternal question facing every dog owner. I’m going to try to help. Regular readers of my column know I’ve spent many years having travel adventures with my golden retrievers — first Lucky, now Rusty. Why travel with [Keep reading]
If you are working too hard, and proud of it, you’re making a big mistake. Insedia.com recently asked me to examine this issue. “Sleep deprivation is your drug of choice. You might be a doer.” So says the subway ad bearing a young woman with the sexy, come-hither, empty stare [Keep reading]
Do you commute to work, have a family member with cancer, or know anyone who’s ever lived in a flood zone? Than you should be paying close attention to that most D.C. of Washington annual rituals, the making of the federal budget. President Donald Trump’s dramatic budget has one clear [Keep reading]
The folks at Insedia.com ask me to write a primer on what are called “specialty credit reports.” Here’s the story. Insedia has set up a bulletin board for consumers to swap their tales (of woe, or success) when trying to get their hands on these reports. Ever heard of DataX, [Keep reading]
As President Donald Trump continues to Tweet things that strain credulity, the warning we’ve heard from sensible people is this: Who will believe the U.S. government when it has something important to say? It didn’t take long to test this theory. When the Department of Homeland Security announced it was [Keep reading]
This weekend brought a fresh reminder that you should always have some “burner” email address accounts handy for interactions with e-commerce Web sites. Shoppers at Saks Fifth Avenue who had asked the firm for notifications when sold-out items were available had their personal information exposed by the firm, I [Keep reading]
Will you be better or worse off if Republicans pass their version of health care reform? That’s the burning question for most Americans as they watch the arm wrestling going on in Washington, D.C. As with the health care debate itself, there are no easy answers. The bill being debated right [Keep reading]
American consumers owe mountains of debt, but one of these mountains looms large over all the others: student loans. It’s astonishing to consider: Add up every auto loan in the country, and total student loan debt is bigger. Add up every credit card bill in the country, you only get [Keep reading]
Here’s an excerpt from a story I did for CNBC.com that published this weekend. Click above to read the entire piece. Older Americans struggling to overcome age discrimination while looking for work face a new enemy: their computers. Illinois Attorney General Lisa Madigan recently opened a probe into allegations that [Keep reading]
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