• Smearing Rush Limbaugh

    What’s the easiest way to smear someone like Rush Limbaugh? Lie and misrepresent. Take his words out of context. Don’t give anyone the context. And they just might believe you. (Especially if you do this lie and misrepresent thing over […]

  • Morgan Stanley fined for faking lost emails due to September 11

    Morgan Stanley will pay a $12.5 million fine to settle claims that the company improperly withheld emails in arbitration cases by saying that they were lost in the September 11 attacks. 12 of the company’s email servers in New York […]

  • Larger Student Loans a Concern for U.S. Economy?

    Experts are concerned by the growing level of student loan debt, and its potential impact on our future economy. Especially concerning are the “private loans” students use for college, which can have variable interest rates as high as 20%. These […]

  • Credit monitoring services doing more harm than good?

    With stories of identity theft surfacing daily, it’s no wonder that consumers want to be able to keep an eye on their credit reports from Experian, TransUnion, and Equifax. But there can be a hidden problem with these credit monitoring […]

  • Caution: Proof Merchant Accounts are Ripping You Off

    Screen shots showing Costco and Quickbooks merchant account services hiding their transaction fees. I am sure they are not the only ones. Time to go double check the fine print. read more | digg story

  • My book is already listed on Amazon.com

    I had no idea books get listed on Amazon so early, but they do! Essentials of Corporate Fraud is listed there with the official publish date of March 14, 2008. My final manuscript got a big thumbs-up from my editor, […]

  • Mark Cuban and Sharesleuth.com: Good or bad idea?

    Wired Magazine featured an article on Mark Cuban and his Sharesleuth.com website. In theory, it kind of sounds like a good idea. Mark and company think that the media has given up critically examining public companies. They think there are […]

  • Lowes tries to shut down Lowes-sucks.com

    This was reported on Ars Technica, and the writer is pointing out the misuse of intellectual property laws in attempting to shut down Lowes-sucks.com. I have a special interest in this topic, since I have a website called Pink Truth. […]

  • Patrick Byrne and his three stooges

    Last week, Overstock.com CEO Patrick Bryne celebrated an apparent victory in court. Overstock is suing Gradient Analytics and Rocker Partners over some negative reports that were issued about Overstock. Of course, the negative reports weren’t negative because Overstock is a […]

  • Why is there no Floor 13 in many office buildings?

    I think it gives a false sense of security to those on the “14th Floor.” They’re really on 13, but they just don’t know it. Isn’t that a bit unfair to them? They won’t even be expecting the troubles from […]