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Honest Slogans 24 Aug 2013 | 01:13 am
From Lisa Hanawalt’s sketchbook: honest slogans for familiar brands. More on her blog. The post Honest Slogans appeared first on Caveat Emptor.
Why the Rich Have Too Much of The Economic Pie 21 Aug 2013 | 01:46 am
How much of the pie do the rich have? The Atlantic’s Derek Thompson explains with real pies. The post Why the Rich Have Too Much of The Economic Pie appeared first on Caveat Emptor.
McDonald’s Offers Budgeting Tips for Hungry, Cold, Naked, Overworked Employees Who Walk Everywhere 17 Jul 2013 | 01:59 am
On the McDonald’s “Practical Money Skills” website, which was surely created with the best of intentions, the fast-food company offers a sample budget to show its employees how to make ends meet on a ...
Expert Global Solutions Fined $3.2 Million for Harassing Collection Tactics 10 Jul 2013 | 02:02 am
Introducing his brief post on the settlement, BoingBoing’s Rob Beschizza says “Intimidation, abuse, deception: everyone knows what debt collectors will do to get paid.” That’s sad, but true. Perhaps ...
How Free-to-Play Games “Persuade” You to Pay 4 Jul 2013 | 08:13 am
At Gamasutra, app developer Ramin Shokrizade outlines some of the ways free-to-play game developers persuade, coerce, and trick users out of their money. There is a reason why 9 of the 10 top-grossing...
MERS Has Infected 77 People in the Middle East 3 Jul 2013 | 09:23 pm
The coronavirus, I mean, not the huge mortgage clearinghouse that “owns” half the mortgages in the United States and basically invented robo-signing. cf “Santorum” The post MERS Has Infected 77 Peop...
Sherrod Brown’s Recommendations for Improving the FDCPA 5 Jun 2013 | 11:34 pm
From insideARM, the recommendations include: Require that debt collectors, whether primary creditors or third party collectors, hold all relevant documentation before issuing their first debt collecti...
New Phone Book! 30 May 2013 | 07:19 am
Nobody cares. (via BoingBoing) The post New Phone Book! appeared first on Caveat Emptor.
Frontline: “The Retirement Gamble” 22 May 2013 | 07:59 am
I watched Frontline’s “The Retirement Gamble” with my wife tonight. It starts with the shift from company-managed pensions to 401K funds managed by all of us — or our financial planners. It is not a f...
Trader Ming’s Peanut Satay: Box v. Contents 16 Apr 2013 | 11:14 pm
I picked up a few “Trader Ming’s” noodle boxes at Trader Joe’s the other day, thinking they would be good for a quick lunch. And the image on the box looked pretty great. The product inside does not r...
