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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...
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...
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...
Chestnuts, Jack Frost and Wall Street’s Spring Bonuses
As we ring out what has been a pretty lousy year for most of us, Wall Streeters are all aglow -- thoughts turning to...
Playstation Invasion: Child Identity Theft is No Game
By now almost everyone I know (and millions of people I haven’t had the pleasure of meeting yet) has read or heard about Sony’s...
Debt Collector: I’m From the Government – As Far As You Know
In a monumental act of hubris and deceit, an Erie, PA debt collection firm had employees pose as sheriff’s deputies and staged phony courtroom...
The Next Osama Bin Laden Already Has Your Social Security Number
A massive cyber attack on American infrastructure is the 21st-century equivalent of the neutron bomb. All buildings remain standing but systems inside them are...
What the Death Penalty and Foreclosure Have in Common (You Will Be Surprised)
There is so much news---mostly ugly news from the consumer point of view---about the foreclosure crisis, but it seems one of the most important...
Tea Time for the Occupation
Historically, America's greatness as a country could be measured by the social mobility of its citizens. If you worked hard enough at a well-defined...
I’m a One Percenter Who’s Pre-Occupied with Wall Street
I confess I'm a one percenter.
I guess I'm one of the folks that the people down on Wall Street are pointing their fingers at....