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What Black Friday and the Fiscal Cliff Have in Common
Black Friday is upon us. Yes, it's time once again for intrepid American consumers to hit the stores like there's no tomorrow --- nudging hundreds of thousands of retailers into the black and ourselves...
How the SEC Almost Shut Down Wall Street
Here's a fun fact: Hackers, just like bankers, real estate agents and collectors of Star Trek memorabilia, attend conferences. Even better: they play games at the conferences. One of the games they play has...
Europe: The Confidence Game That Could Break the Bank
The word "economy" comes from the Greek "oikos" or "house." Lately, the global economy has been like a nightmare episode of "Holmes Inspection." You know the one. The owner fixes one problem only to...
Senator Mitch McConnell, Meet Senator Elizabeth Warren
In 2010, as Americans were fighting with all their strength to survive the meltdown of 2007-2009, Sen. Mitch McConnell infamously said, "The single most important thing we want to achieve is for President Obama...
‘Corporations Are People’ and They Don’t Want You to Vote
It's hard to miss the coincidence: those who want to limit voting hours and demand stricter voter ID protocols also believe that corporations are people. They want to control women's bodies, and pay them...
Hurricane Sandy, You Got My Home, but Not My Identity
Like millions of Americans, I was hammered by Hurricane Sandy. The home that I own on the New Jersey shore was obliterated by the storm. It is nothing but a pile of rubble. Gone....
FEMA, Dodd-Frank and the CFPB: It’s All the Same to Mitt Romney
When the long-predicted storm finally hit us, it struck with so much destructive force that it caught even grizzled New Yorkers by surprise. The storm's surge quickly overran our defenses, overwhelming all emergency responders,...
Back From the Vomitorium: The Looting of the Mortgage Settlement Agreement
States are looting the Mortgage Settlement Fund, and the odds are good that you or someone you know is getting robbed -- for the second time.
According to recent reports, politicians, not bankers, are the...
When Debt Collectors Attack (Disabled American War Heroes)
When it comes to scandalous behavior by debt collectors, I thought I'd heard it all. This is an industry known for its bottom feeders, who routinely bully and intimidate the weakest and most vulnerable...
Why Romney the Closer Is a Consumer Nightmare
Politicians often have a lazy relationship with the truth. Everyone knows that these folks will say damn near anything to get elected. The Romney-Ryan ticket has put new luster on this homespun truism, revealing...