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A recent story on CNN Money mentioned that states could face a $12 billion shortfall if Congress doesn’t pass a bill to help them out. Four states in particular will see shortfalls in money of more than $1 billion each. While this is a scary figure, especially with the way the economy is working, it [...]

Last December I wrote on Intel being sued by the Federal Trade Commission based on the sweetheart deal Dell was getting for using their chips in Dell computers. The suit against Intel is about to commence, but it seems Dell did a proactive move and decided to settle with the Securities and Exchange Commission to [...]

Many states are trying to work their way out of what’s been deemed a housing industry crisis. To say that things have been bad across the country would be an understatement. In 2009, the top housing markets were those that weren’t in a freefall, including my home area of Syracuse, which was flat yet considered [...]

There was an interesting news story on CNN last week. Actually, it wasn’t quite news, more of a feature. It was called Confessions of Former Debt Collectors, and at least half of them stated that they knew that they were breaking the law with some of their collection practices. Yet they knew that they had [...]

I haven’t kept up on this blog recently because I’ve been working on a live workshop I’m doing on July 22nd and August 19th. It will contain around 5 hours of material on social media marketing, and that takes a lot of time to put together and rehearse. If you’d like more information about it [...]

Actually, it’s just a bit longer than a month. By August 15th, consumers are supposed to make a decision with their bank accounts as to whether they want overdraft protection or not. It’s something I originally wrote about in February, but since we’re close to the date I felt it was a good time to [...]

Man, I hate being right. It seems that there’s a prediction that around 1.2 million people are about to fall off the extended unemployment benefit rolls, and with that goes the benefit they were getting on their COBRA insurance coverage. I’ve talked about the fact that unemployment figures are usually skewed by the number of [...]