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...

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,...