The Next Bubble: Is It Time for the Feds to Cap...

Student loan
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,...