Opinions & Editorials

2009

October

Oct 13, 2009

• Truth in advertising, offline or online

Oct 10, 2009

• Have banks no shame?

September

Sep 14, 2009

• Reforming the financial system

August

Aug 30, 2009

• Majority rule on health reform

Aug 27, 2009

• Small credit lines shouldn’t hurt scores

Aug 26, 2009

• Healthcare: Pay for it now, or pay more later

Aug 24, 2009

• About your 401(k)

Aug 23, 2009

• The uninsured

Aug 20, 2009

• The debit card trap

Aug 02, 2009

• Curbing runaway health inflation

July

Jul 31, 2009

• Negotiating with creditors may have drawbacks

Jul 29, 2009

• The price of high tech is sometimes privacy

Jul 24, 2009

• Minnesota A.G. wins one for consumers

Jul 20, 2009

• Lost in the cloud
• Sharks circle in Congress

Jul 15, 2009

• Organ donors risk denial of health insurance

Jul 14, 2009

• (Bank) chutzpah on steroids

Jul 13, 2009

• Borrowers bled dry

Jul 08, 2009

• Credit card firms try end run around new federal rules

Jul 01, 2009

• Cardholders see payment hike as a raw deal

June

Jun 29, 2009

• Insurance company schemes

Jun 24, 2009

• Last-resort health coverage barely covers

Jun 22, 2009

• Health care showdown

Jun 19, 2009

• An easy way to shred that paper weight

Jun 10, 2009

• Cellphone customer put through the wringer

Jun 03, 2009

• As GM co-owners, should we buy GM cars?

May

May 15, 2009

• GPS and privacy rights

May 07, 2009

• How we tested the big banks

May 06, 2009

• CPSC needs more muscle

May 04, 2009

• As foreclosures surge ...

May 01, 2009

• Broadband caps can cost you

April

Apr 28, 2009

• Do you know where your data is?

Apr 26, 2009

• Our lending law is worth saving

Apr 24, 2009

• How healthy are your finances?

Apr 15, 2009

• Cable firm’s plan to Net extra cash

Apr 13, 2009

• 391 percent payday loan

Apr 06, 2009

• The credit card trap

Apr 03, 2009

• Breaking the cable company’s bundles

Apr 01, 2009

• Motorists are pulling for Big 3, but will they be willing to buy?

March

Mar 27, 2009

• Putting an end to “washed” and “cloned” cars

Mar 26, 2009

• Online advertisers should tread carefully

Mar 19, 2009

• It’s the regulations, not the regulator

Mar 13, 2009

• The economic blame game

Mar 12, 2009

• Investors profiting from - and fixing - mortgages

Mar 11, 2009

• The broadband gap: Why is theirs cheaper?

Mar 05, 2009

• Laid-off workers get health care help

Mar 04, 2009

• It’s time to hold credit card issuers to account

Mar 03, 2009

• Lawmakers: translate rhetoric into real reform

February

Feb 25, 2009

• Like having Medicare? Then taxes must rise

Feb 19, 2009

• We own the banks—shouldn’t we run them?

Feb 11, 2009

• Why spend $350 million to map broadband?

Feb 10, 2009

• Plugging in the Postal Service

Feb 09, 2009

• Weighing the Employee Free Choice Act

Feb 04, 2009

• Health savings accounts are ill-advised

January

Jan 07, 2009

• Gas station pricing makes cents, but no sense

Jan 04, 2009

• A voice for the consumer

Jan 01, 2009

• Beware of false promises on debt

2008

December

Dec 31, 2008

• Bringing broadband to the urban poor

Dec 28, 2008

• Obama: Don’t use the tax code as a tool

Dec 27, 2008

• Curbing credit card predators

Dec 26, 2008

• Fading housing hope

Dec 16, 2008

• Credit Cards: a break for borrowers

Dec 10, 2008

• Why tie health insurance to a job?
• Employer-based health plans no longer work
• A perfect storm? No, a failure of leadership

November

Nov 26, 2008

• Getting more bang for our bailout

Nov 23, 2008

• America’s access to justice at risk

Nov 19, 2008

• Underinsured wildfire victims burned again

Nov 07, 2008

• The court confronts a grievous injury

Nov 03, 2008

• Gouging women on health insurance

October

Oct 29, 2008

• Online traffic schools need to be policed

Oct 23, 2008

• Open enrollment: pick a better health plan

Oct 21, 2008

• A return to thrift

Oct 19, 2008

• 30-year sneak attack in America’s class war

Oct 18, 2008

• The college credit card trap

Oct 17, 2008

• Buy a beach house when going bankrupt
• No 401(k) do-over for you
• Good homeowners, bad loans

Oct 15, 2008

• Save to keep the American dream

Oct 14, 2008

• Wall Street’s turn to bolster confidence

Oct 09, 2008

• Know the rules to keep your cash safe

Oct 03, 2008

• If the bailout doesn’t pass…

Oct 02, 2008

• Show us the hope

September

Sep 25, 2008

• Bailout needs a bridge to Main Street

Sep 24, 2008

• The bailout runs into a populist backlash

Sep 14, 2008

• Credit, consumer protection and the campaign

Sep 12, 2008

• Are ID theft monitoring services worth it?

Sep 10, 2008

• Facing our debt addiction

Sep 09, 2008

• Regulators fail to rein in credit card abuse

August

Aug 15, 2008

• Less than golden years

Aug 06, 2008

• Listen to the 56,000 [credit card comments]

May

May 06, 2008

• Overdue first step to curb credit card abuses

May 03, 2008

• The Fed aims at credit cards

April

Apr 17, 2008

• Debate: Police those credit cards

Apr 14, 2008

• Foreclosure politics

Apr 03, 2008

• Wrong relief

Apr 01, 2008

• Holding pattern

March

Mar 27, 2008

• How not to prevent foreclosures

Mar 26, 2008

• Safeguarding private medical data
• Out of tune with consumers

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