• Risk Intelligence in the Boardroom: Take a Quick Test to Measure Your Company’s Maturity

    Guest Post by Ronald Kral, MBA, CPA, CMA Managing Partner of Candela Solutions LLC Sound data, information and intelligence are clearly critical business success factors; however, is it getting to the right people? Too often we think of C-level decision […]

  • Barry Minkow Debunks the Glenn Beck and Goldline International Fraud Connection

    Recently, Representative Anthony Weiner (D-New York) issued a report on Goldline International to the SEC and FTC, claiming that Goldline is guilty of misrepresenting itself to buyers and charging astronomical prices for its precious metals. The reason Goldline is being […]

  • Another Thinly Veiled Pyramid Scheme: Numis Network

    As with most multi-level marketing companies, Numis Network purports to offer a business opportunity that can generate high earnings for an individual. The “product” being sold by Numis is collectible coins. As an investment, gold and silver coins have values […]

  • Update on Koss Fraud

    The story of the alleged $31 million fraud at Koss Corp by the company’s former VP of Finance, Sue Sachdeva, hasn’t gotten much air time over the last month or so.  Aside from the usual class action lawsuits when there […]

  • Wasteful Spending at Milwaukee Public Schools

    I have spent plenty of time ranting about the employee costs at Milwaukee Public Schools. The bulk of the problem is teacher salaries and benefits, which average $100,000 per teacher per school year. In order to make things work financially […]

  • A Victim of United First Financial Speaks

    This was left as a comment on an article here about United First Financial (UFF) and their Money Merge Account (MMA). Tracy, I wish I had read this earlier, like 2 months earlier. I did a Google search for paying […]

  • Get over the Facebook privacy drama

    Today Daily Finance has published an article by me about the current state of the Facebook privacy drama. Simply put, it’s completely overblown. I don’t like the fact that Facebook seems to make huge changes just when I’ve finally figured […]

  • Someone is Finally Starting to Talk Sense at MPS

    No one is really solving the money problems at Milwaukee Public Schools, but finally the school board is at least talking sense about some of the costs. Last night the school board made it clear that if MPS teachers want […]

  • An Anonymous Source Reveals Numbers For MonaVie

    I received the following information about multi-level marketing company MonaVie via email from an anonymous source. I have written here about MonaVie in the past, and my opinion is that it is another thinly veiled pyramid scheme with an overpriced […]

  • No Surprise: MPS is Cutting Teachers Because of Out-Of-Control Employee Costs

    Yesterday it was reported that Milwaukee Public Schools is cutting 684 jobs, which includes 260 teachers. The reason? Out-of-control employee costs, thanks to the teachers’ union. The first thing you’ll hear is how the district doesn’t have money, and more […]