If you don’t know who Harvard Law School Professor Elizabeth Warren is, you should. She’s a plain-speaking champion of the American consumer and a noted authority on bankruptcy law. Jon Stewart recently hosted her as a guest on “The Daily Show.” In addition to being funny, this interview is highly informative. Once you know something [...]
Television and Media
Kids don’t have credit, do they? Studies have shown that 32% of high school seniors use a credit card and 3 out of 5 college freshmen max out their credit cards within the first year. College students receive an average of 8 credit cards offers within their first week of school. Universities lose more student [...]
Gotcha Capitalism: How Hidden Fees Rip You Off Every Day and What You Can Do About It (way to go with the pithy title) came to my attention recently, and strikes me as a good investment for consumers. If you eliminate $15 in fees the book will pay for itself, and you might even find [...]
Texas Attorney General, Greg Abbott, charged JK Harris & Company, LLC, its owners and two related firms (JKH Financial Recovery Systems LLC and Professional Fee Financing Associates) today with “materially misrepresenting their ability to help Texans resolve their unpaid tax obligations.” The state enforcement action alleges JK Harris failed to provide promised services, misrepresented its [...]
View this video report by Dateline NBC showing very disturbing debt collection practices. If you believe you have suffered from abusive debt collection, you should contact an experienced consumer attorney to discuss your situation.
The answer is maybe. View this disturbing video report by Dateline NBC showing certain debt collectors and their companies. The report discusses abusive debt collection practices. It also shows debt collectors posing as attorneys in order to collect money. Most shocking, the report indicates that some collectors Dateline encountered have serious criminal records! If you [...]
