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Year: 2019

Gotchas / Consumer

Comcast fee up 900% in five years — for free channels. The free market (NOT) at work!

January 15, 2019 Bob Sullivan 2

January is a good time to start looking around for simple ways to save money. Here’s a good one – stop paying for TV channels that you can watch for free. At least check your cable bill this month. January is also a “good” time for pay TV companies to impose [Keep reading]

Cybercrime / Privacy

‘Your child looks so innocent’ — hackers using school data for scary extortion scams

January 11, 2019 Bob Sullivan 2

The messages were chilling, and believable enough to force the Johnston School District in Iowa to close a school in 2017. “Your child still looks so innocent,” one text sent to parent read, according the Des Moines Register. “Don’t have anyone look outside….I’m just getting started.” The messages went on [Keep reading]

Gotchas / Consumer

Credit card interest rates hit record — just in time for holiday spending hangover

January 10, 2019 Bob Sullivan 0

January credit card bills are often very sobering — like a splash of cold water the morning after a bit too much partying. Maybe you’ve just seen the consequences of your generous December…or maybe you are too afraid to look. Either way, January is often a good time to take [Keep reading]

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BOB SULLIVAN is a veteran journalist and the author of four books, including the 2008 New York Times Best-Seller, Gotcha Capitalism, and the 2010 New York Times Best Seller, Stop Getting Ripped Off! His latest, The Plateau Effect, was published in 2013, and as a paperback, called Getting Unstuck in 2014. He has won the Society of Professional Journalists prestigious Public Service award, a Peabody award, and The Consumer Federation of America Betty Furness award, and been given Consumer Action’s Consumer Excellence Award.

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