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Jeff Poor
Jeff Poor | April 7, 2008

     Living with a global economy has given protectionists plenty to gripe about.  

     In the 1970s and 1980s, it was the Japanese. At other times European investors have been the object of protectionist scorn. But over the last 20…

Jeff Poor | April 4, 2008

     People love rooting for the underdog and it appears the media is no exception.

 

      A Staten Island family was somehow able to secure a $335,000 mortgage with only a $30,000-a…

Jeff Poor | April 4, 2008

     The momentum of embryonic stem cell research will be changing direction if Sen. Arlen Specter (R-Pa.) has his way.

    Specter forecasted that federal funding will be used to pay for embryonic stem cell research. He was promoting…

Jeff Poor | April 3, 2008

     It’s another case of your government working for you, instead of you working for yourself.

 

     After the Federal Reserve engineered a plan for JPMorgan Chase (NYSE:JPM) to take…

Jeff Poor | April 3, 2008

     Giving financial advice, especially on TV, is more dangerous than you might think.

 

     CNBC “Mad Money” host Jim Cramer appeared on the April 3 “Squawk Box” and claimed he has…

Jeff Poor | April 2, 2008

♪♫ ♪ Bad boys, bad boys – what ya gonna do? What ya gonna do when the foreclosure police come for you? ♪♫ ♪

 

     That sounds like a theme song for some really bad reality television. However, ABC’s April 2…