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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 in the nation, but they aren't saying enough about the...
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 still there, festering away like an untreated wound.
The foreclosure crisis...
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 countless stories about how companies have tried to solve that...
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 (that means "noisy," Senator Santorum) parade of news, three significant...
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 and password information as part of the vetting process. They...
The Next Bubble: Is It Time for the Feds to Cap College Tuition?
At $1 trillion dollars, student loan debt has eclipsed credit card debt for the first time in American history. To make matters worse, come July 1 the interest rate on federally subsidized Stafford student...
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 rule has not changed: love thy neighbor's wallet as though...
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 fine Friday any Fed functionary could foment a world crisis...
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 the benefits of occasional restraint?
This year, in particular, no one...
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 report from the Fed that in December, total consumer debt,...