SUBJECT/ TITLE FOLLOWED BY POSTING DATE. Contents are in chronological order, most recent first, and are color coded. Go to "Archives" on Home Page (left column) to access posting months.
Speaking Dollar-Wise (Personal Finance)
Life's a Trip (Travel Tips and Leisure Values)
Enrich Your Retirement (Boomers... On Your Mark)
Guest Faculty and Miscellanea
FEBRUARY 2008
Keep Your Bench at the Ready 2/5/08
Meet the Faculty---Gerry Greenback 2/4/08
Meet the Faculty---Gulliver Gosforth 2/3/08
Meet the Faculty---Wily B. Wyze 2/2/08
Meet the Faculty---Hendrick Hindsight 2/1/08
JANUARY 2008
Travel Babble 1/31/08
Cheap Booze---Good News? 1/30/08
Identity "Giveaway" 1/29/08
Down Under---Study Maps Before You Book 1/27/08
Good to Do Nothing?---Investment Restraint 1/25/08
Looking Back---How the Locusts Ate America 1/24/08
Debit Bite---Hidden Bank Service Charges 1/23/08
When is a Loss Not a Loss?---1/26/08
Home Sweet....Renting Vacation Homes 1/20/08
Investing in Foreclosures 1/18/08
On Being Foreclosed 1/17/08
MEGO---The Travelers' Demon 1/16/08
Selling Your Business/ Practice 1/15/08
No Free Money---Coin Scam 1/12/08
High Cost of Visiting London 1/10/08
Snake Oil Sam---Street Scams 1/9/08
Be Wary of Senior Internet Contacts 1/7/08
Life Insurance Gobble-de-Gook, Scam 1/4/08
OCTOBER--DECEMBER 2007
Happy Holidays---Tidbits of Wisdom 12/20/07
The Rupert Agenda for Wall St. Journal? 12/18/07
A Mini-History of Financial Folly, Intro. 12/16/07
Financial Folly, Part One 12/15/07
Financial Folly, Part Two 12/14/07
Financial Folly, Part Three 12/13/07
Foreclosure Panic 12/8/07
Media Fan Flames of the Credit Crisis 11/30/07
Tight Flight Connections---Flyer Beware 11/15/07
Hedge Funds---High Roller Crapshoot? 10/31/07
Goodbye Bangalore---Job Outsourcing 10/27/07
INDEX (Scroll Up for Table of Contents)
INDEX ITEMS ARE LISTED ALPHABETICALLY BY SUBJECT, FOLLOWED BY POSTING DATE. Category headings are color coded. Go to "Archives" on Home Page (left column) to access posting months.
Speaking Dollar-Wise (Personal Finance)
Life's a Trip (Travel Tips and Leisure Values)
Enrich Your Retirement (Boomers, On Your Mark...)
Guest Faculty and Miscellanea
BANKS AND BANKING
Bad debt reserves 1/22/08
Collateralized investments 1/24/08
Loan losses 1/22/08
Mistakes/ Financial Folly 12/13/08---12/16/08
Overdraft fees 1/23/ 08
Phishing scams 1/29/ 08
Overdraft fees 1/23/08
Service charges 1/23/08
FORECLOSURES
Getting help 1/17/08
Investing in 1/18/08
Panic 12/8/07
Remedies 1/17/08
IDENTITY THEFT
Identity "Giveaway" 1/29/08
INVESTMENTS
Bad returns 1/12/08
Collateralized investments 1/24/08
Decision making 1/25/08
Foreclosed properties 1/18/08
Hedge funds---crapshoot? 10/31/07
Ratings 1/24/08
Restraint 1/25/08
LIFE INSURANCE
How much real coverage 1/4/08
Meaning of words 1/4/08
MEDIA
Creating panic 12/8/07
Fanning crisis flames 11/30/07
Journalistic Jargon 1/31/08
Wall St. Journal, Rupert Murdoch 12/18/07
REAL ESTATE
Experts vs. Novices 1/18/08
Foreclosures, investing in 1/18/08
SAVINGS AND LOAN COMPANIES
Debacle 12/13/08---12/16/08, 1/24/08
SCAMS AND "BUYER BEWARE"
Coins 1/12/08
"Free" Money 1/12/08
Identity "Giveaway" 1/29/08
Street Ripoffs 1/19/08
TAXES
The "Transaction Levy"---fictional horror story 1/24/08
WORK AND JOBS
Outsourcing 10/27/07
AUSTRALIA
Planning 1/27/08
FLYING
Tight connections 11/15/07
LONDON
Expensive 1/10/08
NEW ZEALAND Planning 1/27/08
TRAVEL ADVERTISING
Misleading ads 1/31/08
VACATION
Budgeting time 1/27/08
Home rentals, contracts 1/20/08
BUSINESS, PRACTICE
Selling 1/15/08
INTERNET
Senior contacts, be wary 1/7/08
