Smart About Money: The Value of Staying Optimistic
A woman recently wrote online about how her friend’s dog was “very smart at life.” Dogs do seem to live in a way many humans would envy.…
Smart About Money: The only guaranteed way to avoid being scammed ...
The only guaranteed way to avoid being scammed is to arrange it so that you are never approached by a scammer. Unfortunately, that’s…
Smart About Money: New AI Scams That Could Literally “Get” Anyone
So many people are sure they would never fall for many of the scams they hear about. For most, that’s probably true – especially if they’re…
Smart About Money: Home Equity Lines ... Myths & Misconceptions
The Home Equity Line of Credit is probably one of the three top bank products/accounts ever invented. People love them. Up until about the…
Smart About Money: Is my money safe?
This past May, I wrote a Smart About Money column about the failure of “banking-as-a-startup” fin-tech Synapse and how Synapse customers…
Smart About Money: Four things homebuyers need to know today
Buying a house in a super-hot sellers’ market (meaning most of Eastern Mass.) favors buyers who are prepared as much as possible before…
Smart About Money: You can save your kids and their friends from this scam …
A 24-year-old young man recently called a radio program to explain how he’d been scammed out of his savings. This is the important part –…
Smart About Money: Is your money in online fintech companies protected? It depends …
According to The Wall Street Journal , a man named Sankaet Pathak “felt banking in America was stuck in the analog era when he moved from…
Smart About Money: She thought there was time to get to it … later
Maybe you’ve heard the term “spidey sense”? From comic book superhero Spider-Man, it basically refers to having a feeling that there’s…
Smart About Money: Should you let influencers influence you?
Rick Steves started travelling in 1978 when he was 23. Millions and millions of people have been enjoying his show on public television…
Smart About Money: When being "too lazy to take the time" can be a mistake ...
There are companies out there – especially mega online companies – with such terrible customer service that some have taken to calling it…
Smart About Money: What’s even worse than being scammed?
According to a new FBI report, there was a “devastating spike” in scams last year with the impact of the scams often being catastrophic for…