Bob Rubin Identified Multiple Causes For Financial Crisis
Sat Apr 17, 2010 | | Posted in Finances Beware
Bob Rubin is one of two executives who guided CitiGroup into the center of the financial storm offered his regrets on Thursday, April 8 to a federal committee examining the crisis. Robert E. Rubin has been an influential Citigroup board member and adviser, and at various times, chief of Goldman Sachs, and Secretary of the … Continue Reading »
11 Tips How And Why To Resign From Congressional Posts
Wed Mar 3, 2010 | | Posted in Finances Beware
How to resign from Congressional posts is easy. You call a press conference. You say “I want to resign and then resign.” Give your resignation to the Speaker of the House or I am guessing now, to the President of the Senate if you are a Senator. Who controls the Senate and the House? You … Continue Reading »
Tips To Keep Your Money Safe When Traveling Overseas
Tue Mar 2, 2010 | | Posted in Finances Beware
When you travel overseas, you must keep your money safe if you do have to take large sum with you. Instead of cash, experts advise to carry traveler’s checks, the most frequently used are those issued by American Express. Don’t completely rely on cash. You carry credit cards in the United States, frequently more than … Continue Reading »
“No Child Left Behind” and current financial crisis. Parallels?
Mon Feb 8, 2010 | | Posted in Finances Beware
New York Times online has an article – an editorial – on Thursday, February 4. The title of the article is “Making ‘No Child’ Better .” The editorial is written stating how best to make the ‘No Child Left Behind Education Act of 2002′ better and make it work. However, I see some parallels between … Continue Reading »
Will politics or hard-core economic policies reduce deficit?
Sun Feb 7, 2010 | | Posted in Finances Beware
New York Times online has an article written by Paul Krugman on Thursday, February 4. The title of the article is “Fiscal Scare Tactics.” The crust of the article is there is a huge difference of opinion between what you see and hear on TV from economics commentators and the many hard-core economists of the … Continue Reading »
How do we avoid another recession in the future?
Sat Feb 6, 2010 | | Posted in Finances Beware
New York Times online has an article written by William D. Cohen on Thursday, February 4. The title of the article is “Mystery Men of the Financial Crisis.” The crust of the article is that we still don’t know what led the economy to the disaster that we encountered and so wholeheartedly accepted. The economists … Continue Reading »
The ever-increasing gulf between Wall Street and Main Street
Sun Jan 17, 2010 | | Posted in Finances Beware
Robert Reich has an article over at huffingtonpost.com that he wrote on January 13, 2010. He has compared the big guys on Wall Street with us folks on Main Street. I thought the points he made were important and “revealing” that I should mention them here, of course with a little twist of my own. … Continue Reading »
Galleon Group’s Raj Rajaratnam paid for inside information
Thu Jan 7, 2010 | | Posted in Finances Beware
A while back, I did a post on Roomy Khan’s lawyer didn’t return calls for comment. Raj Rajaratnam’s name came into light along with Roomy Khan’s. Raj is the founder of hedge-fund firm Galleon Group. Wall Street Journal and other financial sources have reported that Mr. Rajaratnam made payment in 2006 to an unidentified source … Continue Reading »
Tips to protect yourself from the financial scums of the world
Wed Jan 6, 2010 | | Posted in Finances Beware
The scums and the schmucks of the financial world dealing with your finances are increasingly on the rise. You cannot completely, 100%, protect yourself from them. But, in real life, like anything else, you just have to try to somehow beat the scums at their own game. In a handful of states, there are laws … Continue Reading »
Beware of the 3 Musketeers of the Online Conning Industry
Tue Dec 29, 2009 | | Posted in Finances Beware
John D. (Jay) Rockefeller IV, Chairman of the U.S. Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation, a while back announced the release of a new investigative report named as, “Aggressive Sales Tactics on the Internet and Their Impact on American Consumers.” The Committee named three online companies – Affinion, Vertrue, and Webloyalty – that have … Continue Reading »
