If you subsisted on a diet entirely of fish, which would kill you first: mad-cow fish or super tuna? Two stories this week make you wonder. First, Reuters reports on the risk of mad cow disease from farmed fish. Scientists are concerned that the...
UPDATE: Read the affidavits here.
Load up the VW bus and all of your valuables, everyone! Cash4Gold is on tour! Yes, they hold in-person gold-buying events in hotels—Sean ran across this one in Tyson's Corner/Falls Church, Virginia. In case you trust them enough to give you...
Everyone seems to have a friend or family member that's been suckered into a multi-level marketing road to nowhere. While you may have no trouble identifying Amway, Zrii, Arbonne and the like as pyramid schemes, convincing naive loved ones,...
For all the financial news of doom and gloom, the Money Crashers blog reminds us that not everyone is hit hard. In fact, they say that for every person struggling right now, there are a majority of people who are doing just fine in this economic...
Today is the day, folks. You'll need to finish up your taxes and send them on their way to the IRS.
The National Funeral Home in Falls Church, Virginia stores unrefrigerated corpses, including some bound for Arlington National Cemetery, in hallways and garages for months on end, according to embalmer-turned-whistleblower Steven Napper. The...
Smokers around the country are freaking out as a huge federal cigarette tax increase goes into effect.
The SEC has busted another Ponzi scheme and ordered its operators to "disgorge their ill-gotten gains." In this one, Anthony Vassallo of "Equity Investment Management and Trading" recruited investors through his church by saying he had a computer...
Someone wrote to us this week that a person in his family is terminally ill, and that he was told "that the cost of the casket, funeral, viewing, and burial would possibly exceed 12,000 dollars." He thinks that's an "exorbitant amount of money,"...
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