Look carefully at this face. Because it’s yours. This is the face of American consumers today. Only this time, it was caught on camera. If you doubt America is run by corporations, at the EXPENSE of the people, I hope this video serves as your wake-up call. There are almost too [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]
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]
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]
Will you be better or worse off if Republicans pass their version of health care reform? That’s the burning question for most Americans as they watch the arm wrestling going on in Washington, D.C. As with the health care debate itself, there are no easy answers. The bill being debated right [Keep reading]
American consumers owe mountains of debt, but one of these mountains looms large over all the others: student loans. It’s astonishing to consider: Add up every auto loan in the country, and total student loan debt is bigger. Add up every credit card bill in the country, you only get [Keep reading]
Here’s an excerpt from a story I did for CNBC.com that published this weekend. Click above to read the entire piece. Older Americans struggling to overcome age discrimination while looking for work face a new enemy: their computers. Illinois Attorney General Lisa Madigan recently opened a probe into allegations that [Keep reading]
On Tuesday, “iPhone Queen” replaced “Welfare Queen” as an attack on lazy Americans who don’t want to pay for things. This attack is much broader, however. “So rather than getting that new iPhone that they just love and want to go spend hundreds of dollars on that, maybe they should [Keep reading]
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