Nobody likes telemarketers. Heck, most telemarketers probably don’t even like themselves. But no matter how much they annoy you, it’s probably not a good idea to threaten to burn down their offices and kill them.
One Ohio man was arrested and charged with making a “terrorist threat” for apparently doing just that.
The story is a little [...]
Real estate appraisers must be feeling pretty picked on. A new Center for Public Integrity report takes on crooked appraisers who, after being banished from their own business, continue suckering unwitting homeowners as real estate agents and as bosses of unregulated appraisal contract firms.
The Realtors and homebuilders are on their case too, claiming appraisers are [...]
If you’re employed, you’re probably happy just to be hanging onto a job nowadays. Employers, striving to cut costs, took advantage of that this year, giving workers a median raise that was the smallest they’d seen in 29 years, according to separate surveys by Hay Group and Watson Wyatt.
According to the surveys, the median raise [...]
There’s no question about it: When you go to a doctor nowadays, you’re more likely to be diagnosed with something, and sent home with a prescription, than you were a generation ago. A much tougher question to answer is whether or not these new diagnoses, and new tests and treatments that come along with them, [...]
This is a critical time for the Obama Administration’s proposed Consumer Financial Protection Agency, a centerpiece of its financial market reforms.
The CFPA, officially proposed in June, is under fierce attack by the financial services industry, the U.S. Chamber of Commerce and a growing number of business groups. Those forces scored a few points Tuesday when [...]
