When we think about the $1.45 trillion student loan crisis, we normally imagine struggling, young, recent college graduates. We often don’t think about the collateral damage among families that overwhelming school debt can inflict, but that’s a fast-growing problem. Almost all private student loans require a co-signer, and increasingly, the […]
The FCC is issuing fresh warnings about so-called “neighbor spoofing” as the agency plans a fresh push to tamp down illegal robocalls — and scammers continue to perfect their tools of evasion. Neighbor spoofing involves spam calls that arrive appearing to come from a nearby phone number. If your number […]
“You’ve been hacked. But there’s hope. Let me explain.” Writing a book is a very long journey. Re-writing a book, 10 years later, is an even longer journey. But that’s where I have arrived, and I invite you dear reader to come along with me. More than a decade ago, […]
(NOTE: This is a free excerpt from my new book: Gotcha Capitalism, 10 years later. A lot has happened in the world of credit cards since 2008. It’s fun to look back….) Gift cards could be pretty diabolical when they burst onto the scene in the late 1990s. Junk fees […]
If you’re thinking about applying for a new credit card or asking for a higher limit on a card you already have, you might want to do that sooner rather than later. Credit cards, and credit card issuers, have been on a good run lately, but the good times might […]
(NOTE: This is a free excerpt from my new book: Gotcha Capitalism, 10 years later. A lot has happened in the world of credit cards since 2008. It’s fun to look back….) When I began writing Gotcha Capitalism sometime in 2006, there was only one choice for Chapter One: credit […]
Identity theft was a bad news, even worse news story in 2017, a new report has found. Despite a painful transition to fraud-fighting chip-enabled credit cards, and a series of other changes designed to stem the tide of fraud, identity theft actually swelled to record highs last year. Making matters […]
Unless you are living under a rock, you now know that the stock market is in the middle of that time-honored tradition called a “correction” — as in, months and months of tidy gains in your retirement account have been lost in just a day or two. At one point […]
(NOTE: This is a free excerpt from my new book: Gotcha Capitalism, 10 years later. A lot has happened in the world of cell phones since 2008. It’s fun to look back….) Remember when you tried really hard not to use your mobile phone until nights and weekends? […]
I recently had to undertake one of the most arduous, perilous tasks consumers face — updating all my credit card automatic payments. My card had expired of natural causes — rare in the age of account hacking — so off I went, chasing after every card-paying account I have. These […]
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