As you've probably heard, the major credit reporting bureau Equifax had its database broken into by criminals a couple of months ago and sensitive personal information was stolen for nearly half the U.S. population. Equifax has a website where you … Continue reading
The Big Short begins with an on-screen quotation: “It ain't what you don't know that gets you into trouble. It's what you know for sure that just ain't so.” Perhaps appropriately for a film largely about mistakes and fraud, it … Continue reading
A few weeks a couple of friends of mine asked me for some investment advice about their retirement savings, and if I'd known about this video I would have just told them to watch it. I highly recommend it. Link: … Continue reading
As I keep saying, John Oliver, host of HBO's Last Week Tonight, is a national treasure. Last Sunday he and the show's staff did yet another excellent exposé, this one on the stupidity of giving vast amounts of unneeded welfare … Continue reading
Good advice: by … Continue reading
I recently received an email from LinkedIn claiming that it was sent at the request of a friend of mine. But it turns out that the person in question had not asked LinkedIn to send me an invitation. So how … Continue reading