OK. Some business just pissed you off and you want to express your dissatisfaction BUT you don’t want to waste your time on a useless gripe site or spinning your wheels with the company’s labyrinthian customer service maze. How can you be effective in getting that company’s attention? You’d think the answer to this … Read more
It starts out with a warning about “Obama’s Secret New Tax” and then goes on to state, categorically, that “the more you trade and invest, the more likely you are to get hit hard” by this new “devastating” law called FATCA. Stansberry Research is blasting emails and paid ads drumming up concerns about this law. … Read more
Money and power are insufficient metrics to a well-lived life. People need a “third metric” to measure happiness, argues Arianna Huffington. Her thesis is that Americans’ relentless pursuit of the two traditional metrics of success — money and power — has led to an epidemic of burnout and stress-related illnesses, and an erosion in the quality … Read more
“Restore My Vision, Today?” That’s the name of a slick e-mail based advertisement floating around the Net supposedly authored by Dr. Samantha Pearson based upon a “controversial” regimen developed by a Dr. Sen. The emails send you to an even slicker web site asking for the “low price” of $37 for a booklet about eye exercises “guaranteed” … Read more
You’ve owned your spring-constructed mattress for a few years and it is beginning to sag. “No worries,” you think to yourself. You are comforted by the 20-year warranty that came with the mattress — but don’t be so sure. There’s a dirty little secret out clause dwelling within those mind-bending 20- or 25-year … Read more