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- BNET Author Biography
- Marlys Harris has been covering personal finance at least since the time of the Pharaohs, first in 12 years at Money and then as finance editor at Consumer Reports. She has written and edited stories on just about everything having to do with money, from workers comp to marrying for...
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- Reforming the Credit Card Industry
- Consumers should be able to use plastic without getting skewered by unfair bank practices. Although the Federal Reserve passed new regulations to reform the industry, many consumer groups argue the Fed failed to complete the job. Here's a list of additional reforms needed to make credit cards fairer for consumers....
- Articles 2009-04-15
- Not Saying "No" Shouldn't Mean "Yes"
- Do you have trouble saying "no?" I'm not talking about fending off that friend down the street who's constantly entreating you to participate in the community trash pick-up or spaghetti dinner fund-raiser. What I'm referring to are those deals where marketers charge you and...
- Blog posts 2009-09-10
- How to Avoid Those Nasty Bank Overdraft Fees
- When a little white postcard from Bank of America arrives for my son, I shudder because I know what it is without opening it: another $39 overdraft fee from Bank of America. So far this year, he's piled up probably five or six. He's a college student and lives on...
- Blog posts 2009-09-28
- Bernie Madoff: Up Against the Wall
- I have to share this with you. On Sunday, Chen Wenling, a 40-year-old Chinese artist, premiered his sculpture "What You See Might Not Be Real" at a Beijing gallery. Designed to be sum up the world financial crisis, it shows the Wall Street...
- Blog posts 2009-09-29
- Who Should Protect Consumers?
- Remember "states' rights?" Back when the federal government was a strong regulator of consumer products and services, including banks, airlines, brokerages, cable TV and drugs, pro-business factions screamed bloody murder. According to them, federal regulation usurped states' rights to enforce their own laws, which, they argued, would...
- Blog posts 2009-10-01
- Why Should You Have to Pay for Your Credit Score?
- Seriously. Why should you buy your credit score? After all, the score is based on your information. Shouldn't it belong to you? Yet federal law requires you to pay $15 to get it. The fee is a gift to credit scoring companies like Fair Isaac, Choicepoint, TransUnion and Vantage. They...
- Blog posts 2009-10-17
- The Expensive Student Loan Trap
- Making its way through Congress (at the usual pace--ketchup coming out of a bottle) is a bill that promises to reform student loans. Called SAFRA for Student Aid and Fiscal Responsibility Act, it would eliminate FFELP or Family Federal Education Program loans. (Doncha love the acronyms?) The bill would knock out bank...
- Blog posts 2009-10-08
- Five Jobs for Lousy Times and No Talent Necessary
- CNNMoney recently came out with its list of the "50 Best Jobs in America." The list assemblers ranked jobs based on personal satisfaction, job security, future growth, benefit to society, stress -- and presumably pay, since, after all, it's CNNMoney, not CNNSelf-gratification. The...
- Blog posts 2009-10-22
- Create a Budget, Build a Nest Egg
- Of course you want the best for your kids. But after spending lavishly on education and cars, and helping a son buy his first home, the Cadelinias found they were coming up short on retirement savings. Here?s how to make the tough choices that will protect your future. ...
- Articles 2009-10-28
- Rebuilding a Small Business
- Entrepreneurs around the country were hit hard by the one-two punch of the economic and real estate crashes, but Sam Cadelinia really took on the chin. As the owner of a California real estate agency, he was in one of the worst industries in the hardest-hit regions. Here's how he...
- Articles 2009-10-28
- Beef Up Retirement Savings
- With their last child out of college, this was the year the Cadelinias were going to start putting serious money away for retirement. But the economic crisis whacked Sam's salary by 80 percent. Here's a savings and investment plan to get them back on track. When San Francisco...
- Articles 2009-10-28
- Reverse Mortgage Brokers Are No Angels
- A few days ago, I put up a spoofy post called "Five Jobs for Lousy Times and No Talent Necessary." One of my top picks was reverse mortgage broker. My reasoning:Â As the population ages and taps out any retirement savings left after the financial crisis, reverse mortgages, which are available...
- Blog posts 2009-10-29
- Old Credit Card Tricks Are New Again
- Since Congress enacted the consumer-friendly credit card law back in May, you'd think that the cardcos would have at least started to roll back all those bad practices that it bans. You'd think. After all, if you knew you were starting Weight Watchers on Monday, wouldn't you stock...
- Blog posts 2009-11-02
- The Online University Hustle
- Where have all the mortage brokers gone, long time passing? If the husband's recent experience offers any evidence, they've gone to online universities every one and become admissions advisers. Why do I say this? Because enrolling in a college training course these days is a lot like...
- Blog posts 2009-07-02
- S.C.R.E.W.U. or the Safe Credit Revision Everyone Wins Undertaking
- According to a new cartoon by Mark Fiore, an award-winning political animator who hangs out somewhere in the Bay Area, this is the program that credit card issuers have developed in response to the CARD (Credit Card Accountability Responsibility and Disclosure Act of 2009) which is to...
- Blog posts 2009-11-09
- Why I Don't Hate the Airlines
- [caption id="attachment_328" align="alignnone" width="302" caption="You sometimes have to fly to Dallas or Atlanta to get to Minneapolis from New York. "][/caption] I just returned from visiting mom in Minneapolis, and I have to say that the trip gave me a renewed understanding of what the airlines are...
- Blog posts 2009-09-23
- How Much House Do You Really Need?
- [caption id="attachment_428" align="alignright" width="174" caption="You probably need a house bigger than thisâ€"but not by much."][/caption] Emerging from this recession is a new rule: Buy only as much house as you need. Unfortunately for their finances, Americans have been doing anything but. You have only...
- Blog posts 2009-11-18
- Why Credit Card Regulation Is Broken
- Until recently, regulators routinely looked the other way as credit card issuers ensnared unwitting consumers with huge finance charges and penalties. So how did credit card regulation become so broken? Here's a brief history of the slippery practices of the industry. How...
- Articles 2009-04-15
- Words You Should Never Use at the Office Unless You Have To
- Once upon a time and about two jobs ago, one of my colleagues who was so officious that she carried around three clipboards to make sure that she was getting on everybody's nerves, constantly used the expression "going forward." She usually said it after you made a minor mistake that...
- Blog posts 2009-08-28
- Madoff Victims: Will Homeowners Insurance Help?
- Don't get your hopes up too high, America. Fraud coverage does not typically come with homeowners insurance policies, and when it does, insurers will try to wriggle out of paying if they can. Here's the story. In the late 1990s when I.D. theft first became prevalent, insurance...
- Blog posts 2009-08-25
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