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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,...
Foreclosure Review Deadline Looms: Opt In By Monday, Or Risk Losing...
If you were in foreclosure in 2009 or 2010, you’ve got until Monday, Dec. 31 to request of independent review of your case. You’ve...