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The Other Student Loan Slow Jam: Is It Time for a...
If you haven't taken the time to watch Obama slow jam the news on Late Night from last week, take the time. It was...
Say Something Already! Obama and Romney’s Housing Crisis
President Obama, Governor Romney and their backers may be spending hundreds of millions of dollars to live in the most expensive and exclusive house...
Obama’s Mortgage Task Force: Working Hard or Hardly Working?
Maybe you're reading about it less and less. It doesn't seem to be the lead story on many national news broadcasts anymore. But it's...
Hacking the Federal Log Jam: One Agency at a Time
No doubt you've seen the studies that show how social networking sites hurt productivity, and I am pretty sure you've read, heard or watched...
The New American Pie: Breached, Tracked and Strip Searched
For those of us who care about privacy, these past seven days have truly sucked.
With relatively little fanfare in the midst of a cacophonous...
Hey, Get Out of My Face(book)
Over the past few months there’s been a growing hue and cry over reports that some employers ask job applicants for their Facebook login...
The Next Bubble: Is It Time for the Feds to Cap...
At $1 trillion dollars, student loan debt has eclipsed credit card debt for the first time in American history. To make matters worse, come...
Sluts, Snobs, Seamus and the Almighty Dollar
I've always been a political junkie. Since my earliest days as an observer and later as a participant in all things electoral, the golden...
Flipping the Bird: Is the Fed on Twitter a Horrible Idea?
Even the farsighted Founding Fathers could not have foreseen this -- the Fed is now on Twitter! Just think of the possibilities -- one...
National Consumer Protection Week: It’s Up to You (Sorry!)
Once again National Consumer Protection Week falls smack in the middle of Lent. Is this yet another coincidence, or rather a celestial reminder of...
Best Way to Win the Gas Game: Don’t Play
Earlier this week, the New York Post shouted the headline "US Credit Card Debt Nearing Toxic Levels." The article was referring to the latest...
Identity Theft: Are We Doomed?
Opening my e-mail reminds me of walking through the bazaar of a third world open air market -- the pickpockets are everywhere. In the...
Mortgages, Greece & Obama’s Budget: The Global Financial Literacy Crisis
Seven days, three seemingly disconnected announcements, and one subtle theme: what we have here is a failure to communicate... or more to the point,...
Eastwood Meets West Wing: No Permanent Foreclosure Crisis?
I am a New Yorker. I am a Giants fan. They made my day last Sunday. Sorry, Gisele.
Like over 100 million of you, I...
Google’s New Privacy Policy: Close But No Cigar
Last week was a pretty good one for the notion of privacy in America, which has increasingly become forlorn and tattered as a result...
The Real SOPA Opera Should Be ID Theft
The Stop Online Piracy Act, and its sister legislation in the Senate, the Protect Intellectual Property Act caused quite a stir in Silicon Valley,...
The S&P and the EU: Timing Is Everything
In keeping with a tradition firmly established in the 20th century, Europe suffered a late-night bombing raid on Friday evening. This time the attacker...
Hey Romney, It’s an Inauguration, Not a Coronation
Can't you just feel the temperature rising? Feel the rush of adrenalin as the political gladiators enter the arena and begin to slash each...
Is Obama’s Cordray Appointment Unprecedented? Not By a Longshot
President Obama "manned up" Wednesday, exercised his executive authority and announced the recess appointment of Richard Cordray as the Director of the Consumer Financial...
The First Annual Most DisCREDITed Awards
Welcome to the first annual "Most disCredited Awards." In a bad-economy year full of silly laws, mortgage miseries, political gaffes, Hatfield-McCoy feuding, credit downgrades,...