Following what has become an unfortunate tradition of promoting structured settlement "one hit wonders" such as Professor Adam Scales, the Society of Settlement Planners has delved even deeper into the bowels of industry history to fete Kevin A. Mack, a former officer of the Travelers Property &a...

I heard that Dell settled a class action lawsuit and all Dell computer owners may have a claim in the settlement. I couldn’t find anything on the Dell Web site, so how do we find out if we have a claim in this settlement? – Todd Computers have always been a much more complicated consumer...

WHAT EXACTLY IS THE APPROPRIATE, "TACTFUL" ETIQUETTE FOR REPORTING THE RAPE OF FAMILIES' EARNED INCOME CREDITS AND STIMULUS REBATE REFUNDS?  HOW DOES ONE REPORT THE VULGAR CRIME OF ELDER ABUSE WITHOUT OFFENDING ANYONE? Dear Zen, I respect you and your work here on Blog Talk Radio and that is why I ...

I really, really like the guys at PhoneNews.com. They post a lot of hard-hitting stories about mobile phone industry. They are also trying to go ad-free by running a rather peculiar promotion–buy a refurbed Nokia 2610 from AT&T for $0.01 after rebate. If 10,000 orders come in by the end of...

It’s time for our annual review! Here are my picks for the top stories on taxgirl.com for the year: 10, Dancing With The Stars champ and race car driver Helio Castroneves is indicted on federal tax evasion charges. In a related story, my mother is stricken with grief and may never samba again ...

The Wall Street Journal  sent five people out to buy five different items at five different retailers. All the products purchased came with rebates. All five people correctly filled out the necessary paperwork to get the rebates. Yet only one person actually got money back. That’s only 20 pe...

As is often the case, an upcoming rebate sheet for Big Blue has found its way out of hiding ahead of schedule and it comes bearing gifts. The sheet covers the period of December 26th through January 24th and reveals two new handsets that will likely find their way to store shelves sometime during th...

Filed under: Car Buying, Chrysler, LLC., Ford, GM Chet Czaplicka doesn't own one of the Big 3's suppliers or run a car dealership. Instead, he is the chief executive of a blood-processing firm in the Detroit suburb of Livonia, Michigan. But like most people in that part of the country, he has severa...

The Holiday shopping season is in full-swing and hoards of savvy shoppers are looking for those bargains to give to family and friends (and, ahem, sometimes just for ourselves). So Orbitcast's sponsors have put together some phenomenal satellite radio deals for the Holiday shopping season. These are...

News Analysis. The gloomy holiday sales forecasts are rolling in. Ho, ho, ho—bah, humbug!...