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 of the advancement of digital technology. First, the Supreme Court...

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, Hollywood and Washington. The two bills were intended to put...

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 was Standard & Poor's, everybody's favorite rating agency, which announced...

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 other to pieces. Doesn't it feel a bit like Spartacus,...

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 Protection Bureau---ending months of partisan bickering and obstructionism by 45...

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, mysteriously rising prices, fee gouging of every description, and art-project...
Foreclosure mortgage

Foreclosure Review Deadline Looms: Opt In By Monday, Or Risk Losing Cash

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 got nothing to lose except a chance at free money. Pursuant...

Fannie, Freddie & Freud: Washington Needs a Shrink

As a citizen, a voter, and a consumer, what do you think this country needs? Less partisanship in Congress? Less Congress? Easier credit? Lower taxes? Higher taxes? There are about 307 million Americans and given...
Corrupt politician

Killing America One Vote at a Time: Why the CFPB Matters

The Honorable Richard Shelby, Mitch McConnell and -- to quote Spiro Agnew -- "those nattering nabobs of negativism" (by which I mean the 43 senators who always say "never") -- sure had their turkey...

Memo to American Consumers: You Just Got Screwed… Again

The too-big-to-fail boys and their GOP handmaidens -- the Hon. Richard Shelby, the Hon. Mitch McConnell and the other 43 legislative dwarves in the U.S. Senate -- have struck again. Today, they blocked the confirmation...