The Huffington Post recently posted an article listing 9 frequent money mistakes made by people in their 20s or 30s. It is entertaining and largely correct. They include: Incurring too much education-loan debt Spent too much money fixing up a rented apartment Didn’t save enough or plan for retirement Over-relied upon Craigslist to make purchases … Read more
Political campaign finance laws in the U.S. are hurting our democracy; so much so as the US may not be any more democratic than Hong Kong or Iran, according to Harvard Law Professor Larry Lessig. While this sounds like a radical assessment, Lessig is one of the brighter and moderate academic minds in the country, … Read more
This muse is more of a lament. It is no secret that America (as with most western and emerging countries) are suffering from a disparity of income growth. In the U.S., 95% of income gains have gone to the top 1% of its citizens. America’s median household income has dropped by more than $4,000 … Read more
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