Complaints, Complaints, Complaints
by Anthony Demangone The FTC recently released its annual report on consumer complaints. The FTC press release will get most of the attention. It lists the dreaded “top 10” consumer ...
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Whistleblower Lawsuit Reveals Undisclosed Enforcement Order
by Keith Leggett A whistleblower lawsuit filed by the former CEO of Ukrainain National Federal Credit Union reveals that the credit union was under an enforcement order. The Credit Union ...
Fortune Favors the Prepared: World Backup Day, All Month Long
by Jimmy Marks Louis Pasteur, inventor of pasteurization and the vaccines for anthrax and rabies, once said “fortune favors the prepared”. If your computer is fried in an electrical surge, ...
What Can Students Do To Protect Themselves?
BY AARON MARQUEZ This post is part of a series for National Consumer Protection Week Americans owe more than a trillion dollars in student loan debt. That’s more than ...
Ya-hoo to Working From Home
By Henry Meier It’s been a little more than a week now since Yahoo’s new CEO, 37-year old recent Mom Marrissa Mayer, called everyone back to the office. ...
Lessons Learned From The Great Recession
By Henry Meier If you just went by press reports, the average person 35 years of age or younger is a multi-tasking, technology obsessed, social media exhibitionist, debt-riddled, pill popping ...
Where Do You Want That Commercial?
In late January, YouTube reached 4 billion views per day. That’s pretty close to a view per person in the entire world’s population (and history tells us that ...
Reasons to Be Cautious on Student Lending
By Pat Bator This whacked-out, oft-censored, and certain-Canadian-export-loving senior research analyst constantly heard from his parents in his formative years that having a higher education would translate into success later ...