PUBLISHED Oct. 6, 2007 — Shopping malls are packed every weekend. Restaurants can’t open fast enough. Everyone seems to be wearing designer shoes, jackets and jeans and sipping $4 lattes. Credit card commercials constantly advocate splurging and, it seems, U.S. consumers are all too ready to comply. So what’s the [Keep reading]
It can seem like no one wins when your Facebook feed is full of partisan political bickering, but indeed, there is a big winner: Facebook. And, most social media firms. There’s a loser, too: U.S. worker productivity, at least according to one new survey. Employees say they are spending TWO [Keep reading]
What’s with the suddenly disappearing Presidential Executive Orders? Perhaps the Trump administration is growing more careful with the way it rolls out new orders. Or, perhaps there’s some other explanation for an entire day’s White House events calling attention to orders that then…seem to vaporize. It’s happened twice in the past [Keep reading]
Comcast Cable TV subscribers were throwing penalty flags all over Twitter on Sunday night when an apparent outage prevented them from watching the Super Bowl. It was unclear how widespread the troubles were. Comcast’s customer support account, @ComcastCares, confirmed outages in Virginia. Outages in that area were caused by [Keep reading]
A suspicious death related to a British spy. Accusations of treason. Arrests — including one, during a meeting, where the suspect was marched out with a bag over his head. Election interference and ‘Kompromat.’ These are some of the things that, while hanging in the air, weren’t mentioned in the [Keep reading]
NOTE: It’s been …gulp….13 years since I published my book on identity theft: Your Evil Twin. Yet here we are, more than a decade later, with the rate of ID fraud hitting an all-time high. That’s shocking. I think it’s important to note that the pain victims feel today is [Keep reading]
(“The Four-Income Family.” Daniel Clements, president of Insedia.com (where I am an advisor) used that phrase during a recent meeting I had with folks there about the future of American labor. It stuck in my craw, so I ended up writing a piece for Insedia talking about the issue. [Keep reading]
The folks at Grow asked me to explain a frustrating situation recently: Interest rates are going up for everyone — except consumers! Savers are still getting almost nothing for their virtuous habit of saving money. Meanwhile, now that the Fed is raising rates, all the rates that *hurt* consumers — [Keep reading]
Good-bye, CBF. A famous woman died yesterday, one who set the stage for independent, strong women everywhere. At about the same time, an important woman died who did just the same thing. You didn’t know her, but CBF was my friend. And she was your friend, too. Her fingerprints and [Keep reading]
A top Russian computer security researcher has been arrested and charged with treason, Russian media has reported. Ruslan Stoyanov, Head of the Computer Incidents Investigation Team at respected security firm Kaspersky Labs, is under investigation, Kaspersky confirmed to me in an email. The timing of the arrest is curious, as it involves [Keep reading]
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