UPDATE 4/7/2017 — The Department of Homeland Security has withdrawn this request, so Twitter has voluntarily dismissed its lawsuit. That’s good, but the main theme here remains: What a shocking level of seriousness. It’s been great fun to watch the list of Twitter accounts run, allegedly, by federal workers [Keep reading]
If it sometimes feels like student loan borrowers are treated like criminals — that’s because they are. It literally took an act of Congress to make it so. Student loans are different from almost any other form of borrowing. Unlike credit cards or other unsecured debts, they are almost impossible [Keep reading]
Like so many public policy arguments, this Internet Service Provider privacy story is not sexy right now, because it doesn’t *really* have immediate consequences. But by the time it is sexy, it’ll be too late to do anything about it. That leaves people who want you to care about it [Keep reading]
Rusty’s rating: 11 on a scale of 1 to 10 Walk down Center Street in Folly Beach and you’ll find an eclectic collection of beach-y restaurants, bars and coffee shops. All of them have tables on or near the sidewalk, and all of them were happy to see Rusty. I [Keep reading]
Grow recently asked me to write about the pitfalls of trading money in and out of investment accounts. Trying to time the market is a bad idea, folks. Really, nobody can do it. If you think you have, you’ve just been lucky or had insider training. You are sure to [Keep reading]
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]
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