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Month: July 2021

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Podcast: ‘If you don’t send us money, I’m going to kill your mom’

July 28, 2021 Bob Sullivan 0

Jeremy Vincent was startled out of his sleep in the middle of the night with the ring of his smartphone. Its screen read, “Mom’s Cell.”  But when he answered, he didn’t hear his mom’s voice. Instead, he heard this: “I’m going to let you talk to your mom, your mom’s [Keep reading]

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Sunk cost: Don’t ‘throw good money after bad’

July 26, 2021 Bob Sullivan 1

Some people just don’t know when to cut their losses.  OK, basically no one does. Sunk cost is not only a powerful concept, it’s a bad habit written into all our subconscious minds.  I don’t think you can escape its powerful grip, but you can learn to live with it a [Keep reading]

Gotchas / Consumer

Worried inflation might kill your retirement? Read this

July 16, 2021 Bob Sullivan 0

There will be no avoiding the inflation conversation during the next few months. Prices are going up all around us — lumber (wait, they’re down suddenly), cars, my favorite chicken with mixed vegetables entree from Asia Sushi down the block. As I’ve written before, folks old enough to remember the [Keep reading]

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Debugger: The 1,000 companies that track you with every click and swipe

July 13, 2021 Bob Sullivan 0

I like a good challenge as a storyteller.  And let me tell you, making “third-party code” sound sexy is a challenge.  But that recent Apple ad showing an army of people following a cell phone user around, cataloging his every move — well, that’s real.  It’s hard to believe, but [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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