April 16, 20220Comments

MoneySense: Chapter 25: The Best Way to Borrow: How to become someone credit card companies hate

Transactors are MoneySense investors. Transactors are detested by credit card companies. Transactors are people like yours truly and my wife today although in the early years of our marriage we

by Gregory Bresiger

Personal Finance

April 15, 20220Comments

MoneySense Chapter 24: Easy Credit: The Servant that One Day Could Become a Brutal Master

“Just one percent lets you drive it away,” Guardian Angels head Curtis Sliwa, pitching cars on television. We’ve discussed this issue a bit previously, but we must discuss it again.

by Gregory Bresiger

Personal Finance

April 11, 20220Comments

Many Want a Home But Must Keep Renting: Two “crummy years” and too much card debt are why some don’t get a mortgage

High inflation and Covid are destroying the dreams of many who want to have a home, credit card and mortgage experts warn. That’s because the pandemic has driven many Americans

by Gregory Bresiger

Personal Finance

April 6, 20220Comments

Federal Taxes Quietly Hiked: But legislators had no say. A lawmaker says the administration must work with Congress.

There’s a new debate over President Biden’s latest proposal to raise taxes. But actually it’s already happened to some companies and few heard about it.The Biden administration recently bypassed Congress

by Gregory Bresiger

Personal Finance

March 27, 20220Comments

MoneySense, Chapter 23: Chasing the Hot Fund: How the average, fickle, investor fails

That hot fund you just bragged about buying is unlikely to continue doing well. Indeed, we saw in the last chapter the sad record of the long-gone American Heritage Fund.

by Gregory Bresiger

Personal Finance

March 15, 20220Comments

The Big Apple’s Finances Are Rancid, Accounting Group Contends: Are the books balanced in New York City and in other big cities? A difference of accounting philosophy.

New York City government, says financial watchdog Truth in Accounting (TIA), is a money mess. Its finances are the most troubled in America, TIA charges, although dozens of other big

by Gregory Bresiger

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