• Reports of Financial Crimes Growing

    I’m not a believer that a bad economy means more fraud is occurring. Those who say this is happening simply have no basis for that opinion. Because so much financial fraud goes undetected, it is impossible to determine if it’s […]

  • Australian Scam Sounds Exactly Like U1st Financial!

    One of the credibilty builders (i.e. smokescreens) that United First Financial agents use when trying to sell their Money Merge Account is… “It’s based on the Australian banking system!” The claim is that this “system” has been used successfully in […]

  • Who Pays All the Income Taxes?

    Obamanomics has made it popular to call on the “rich” to pay “their fair share” of taxes. Lets increase taxes to pay for ineffective, unnecessary, wasteful government spending, but lets make sure the “rich” are the ones who pay those […]

  • Privacy Over Regulation

    Today I was in a class on overseas banking and reporting requirements for individuals and businesses. I wanted to learn about the latest regulations and their enforcement. We discussed the Offshore Voluntary Disclosure Program, through which taxpayers can “tell on […]

  • Interesting Stories

    My faithful readers have likely noticed my conspicuous absence over the last month or more. The simple truth is that I have been swamped with work, and for that I am thankful. Not everyone in my industry is doing so […]

  • False disclosures to the SEC by Interoil (NYSE:IOC)

    Last week, white collar crime fighter Sam Antar reported on interesting false disclosures to the Securities and Exchange Commission by Interoil (NYSE:IOC). The situation is amusing, to say the least, and here’s the heart of it… Interoil has a history […]

  • Milwaukee Public Schools Spending More Next Year

    Despite the misleading, fraudulent headling in the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel today, the truth is that Milwaukee Public Schools will be spending more taxpayer money next school year. JSOnline reported: “MPS cuts spending, spends stimulus.” The truth is that MPS is […]

  • Buying a Job With Haverhill Home Staging? Questionable.

    Do-it-yourself home renovation projects are still all the rage, years after shows like TLC’s Trading Spaces became popular. No doubt the economy has also influenced people to try to increase the value of their real estate for little or no […]

  • Note to SEC: Does InterOil (NYSE:IOC) violate Regulation FD?

    The SEC’s Regulation FD is one of those pesky little rules public companies are supposed to abide by. The basic idea behind this rule, called “FD” for “Fair Disclosure,” is to make sure that some parties don’t have an unfair […]

  • Update on Quickbooks Sucks

    A few weeks ago, I posted my opinion on Intuit and QuickBooks on this blog. Essentially the company created a program to get people to sign up for a monthly technical support plan costing $39, and then when that plan […]