Google+ has made Google unfriendly.
In its new privacy policy, which all Google users must accept on Mar. 1, Google says in plain language:
When you upload or otherwise submit content to our Services, you give Google (and those we work with) a worldwide license to use,...
Posted September 13, 2011 | 09/13/11 01:13 PM ET
Wouldn't you like to earn 3.00 percent on your checking account?
In March of last year, I wrote an article here entitled Move Your Money to a High Interest Checking Account. My goal was to get folks thinking about how the MegaBanks are nickel-and-diming us into poverty. For...
Posted January 10, 2011 | 01/10/11 03:45 PM ET
I still have John Roll's card in my old Rolodex, which dates back to 1979. I first met John when I was directing continuing legal education programs for the National College of District Attorneys, an organization that sponsored training seminars for prosecutors. John was one of several dozen lecturers who...
Posted December 15, 2010 | 12/15/10 01:54 PM ET
Canada is saying goodbye to the penny.
I guess it's not a "done deal," but a story I read on December 15 suggests that pretty much everyone in Canada is in favor of getting rid of the penny. After all, the government spends 1.5 cents to manufacture a penny, so...
Posted December 9, 2010 | 12/09/10 01:20 PM ET
About a year ago, I decided I was tired of buying liquid cleaners that are mostly water. You know what I mean -- the ubiquitous quart squirt bottles filled with pretty colored liquids that overflow the cleaning products aisle at the grocery store. All of them have several things in...
Posted March 1, 2010 | 03/01/10 06:05 PM ET
My new community bank is paying me 4.01% on the money I have deposited in their fee-free checking account. Have you looked at what your bank is paying you lately?
The last time I checked, MegaBank was paying 0.01% for a checking account, and my old regional bank's rate...
Posted January 26, 2012 | 01/26/12 04:20 PM ET