John Crudele has been a financial columnist for the New York Post for the past two decades. Before that he was a columnist with New York Magazine, The New York Times, Reuters and various other publications. His columns have been syndicated around the country. He attended Syracuse University where he received his B.A. and he received his M.A. from New York University. He's appeared on TV and radio, and he teaches writing for the NYU School of Continuing and Professional Studies. Crudele gets his skepticism, nasty attitude and his wise mouth from growing up in Brooklyn. He believes that if you have money people will try to take it away from you, and tries to protect readers from that.
Buyer's remorse: It's like when you buy a jelly doughnut to eat while you're driving but forget that you have a stick shift. So you wish you hadn't ever purchased that damn car. Well, I'm being told that some...
July 29, 2010 12:00 AMWhat have you been smoking? That was asked a lot in the '60s. Now the question is coming back into vogue -- but for an entirely different reason. US tobacco companies are worried that the recent tax hike on...
July 27, 2010 12:00 AMDear John: I recently applied to TD Bank for a loan. The application asked my race. Is this still legal? I am 60 years old and grew up in South Carolina on a working plantation. Even then we could get a loan in our...
July 25, 2010 12:00 AMNear Chicago there are two 36-year-olds who will probably spend today playing video games, like they do most days. They had been collecting unemployment benefits for nearly two years until they reached the limit....
July 22, 2010 12:00 AMThis is not going to be the story of an ordinary Internet fraud. Trust me on this. Laura is a 27-year-old former beauty queen with a lot of friends and hundreds of acquaintances. You can tell that by the fact that...
July 20, 2010 12:00 AMDear John: I want to give you a little insight about how bad the economy is. I had a business for 13 years until last August, when I had to turn my keys over to the landlord because I couldn't pay my electric bills....
July 18, 2010 12:00 AMIt's a start. Goldman Sachs is guilty of jaywalking. Yesterday the giant Wall Street firm with the outsized Washington connections agreed to pay a fine of $550 million -- which is also known as chump change in...
July 16, 2010 12:00 AMThe Federal Reserve seems to fi nally under stand the true nature of the economic mess in which it finds itself. Now if only the White House would get clued in, we'd take the first step to ward solving our problems....
July 15, 2010 12:00 AMThe federal commission look ing into the causes of the financial meltdown has copies of phone logs documenting calls between Lloyd (Doing God's Work) Blankfein and Hank (I Talk With People Doing God's Work) Paulson....
July 13, 2010 12:00 AMNew York State is so desperate for money it is squeezing one of its few profit centers -- undercover operations against cigarette bootleggers -- so hard that the operation has virtually shut down. "We are totally...
July 08, 2010 12:00 AM
LET me explain a bit about the concept of a "double dip" recession, which has been getting as much publicity as Lady Gaga. The economy, as you know, hasn't been behaving itself lately -- also kinda like Ms. Gaga....
July 06, 2010 12:00 AMDear John: I am a New York City firefighter who contacted you once before about something you wrote that was troubling to me because I interpret it to mean that the stock market is no longer a viable investment option....
July 04, 2010 12:00 AMThe price of cigarettes goes up another $1.60 a pack in New York state today. So I was wondering how the new cost of between $12 and $13 a pack compares with other addictions people might want to try. I'm not...
July 01, 2010 12:00 AMApparently, all it took was a subpoena up the tush to make Goldman Sachs cooperate with a Washington committee looking into the financial crisis. A source at the Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission, which is headed...
June 29, 2010 12:00 AMDear John: I'm really tempted to park my 401(k) money until something is done with the way the market is regulated. But my 401(k) is going to be the largest, or smallest, part of my retirement plan. My faith in the...
June 27, 2010 12:00 AMOn paper, the proposed new curbs on the finan cial industry that were hammered out in the wee hours of Friday morning by Congress look so simple, so neat. Smack around Wall Street and the banks, make them pay for...
June 26, 2010 12:00 AMThe Federal Reserve has another problem -- it just doesn't know it yet. The Fed didn't make any change to the interest rates it controls at the policy-making Open Market Committee meeting yesterday and said...
June 24, 2010 12:00 AMThings are getting interesting in the most important financial topic of our time: Has Washington ever rigged the stock market? Ben Bernanke recently told a Congressman that the Federal Reserve has not intervened in...
June 22, 2010 12:00 AMDear John: Would you know the answer to the following? If New York State or a local municipality within the state goes bankrupt, what happens to the pensions of retired civil service workers who worked for the state or...
June 20, 2010 12:00 AMFree Jeff Skilling -- please. They just don't make corporate trials anymore like the one endured -- and lost -- in 2006 by the former chief executive of the now notoriously-defunct Enron Corp. So, as the...
June 17, 2010 12:00 AMIt is time for some summer hijinks on Wall Street. So sit back and enjoy the stock market rally that probably won't last very long. Stock prices rose nicely for a while yesterday because . . . well, just because....
June 15, 2010 12:00 AMDear John: On Feb. 11, I received a call from Bank of America looking to confirm that I'd called at 2:30 a.m. to change my access codes and the address on my credit card accounts. I told them I hadn't. They said, "We...
June 13, 2010 12:00 AMWASHINGTON is in the midst of spending $11 billion to fulfill the Constitutional obligation to count Americans, a wonderfully quaint process I imagine worked better when this was a young country and people stayed on...
June 10, 2010 12:00 AMYou are not going to like this column. I'll be upfront about that. But like your mother used to say, just open wide and swallow the medicine. It might not taste very good (or in this case, be pleasant to read), but...
June 08, 2010 12:00 AMDear John: I have a small not-for-profit organization that brings equipment and food to my homeland in Africa. I'm told that filing requirements with the Internal Revenue Service have changed. How? A.T. Dear A.T....
June 06, 2010 12:00 AMNow, it's war! The director of the US Census, which is spending more than $11 billion of taxpayer money, told some members of Congress that my recent columns about employment abuses by his organization are wrong....
June 03, 2010 12:00 AMA guy I'll call Mike has worked for Census 2010 several times in California over the past two years. The last time, he was trained at a facility that was an hour's drive from his home. He was paid for his commuting...
June 01, 2010 12:00 AMDear John: Crybaby. It just isn't fair. Stay out of the market super wimp. Keep your few shekels in your grubby money market account. It is obvious from a mile away that we were going to bail out Greece, etc. Enjoy the...
May 30, 2010 12:00 AMLet's face it. The only question investors want answered right now is this: Now that the Dow Jones industrial index has closed below 10,000, will the stock market go up or down? The answer is: Yes. Yes, it'll...
May 27, 2010 12:00 AMYou know the old saying: "Everyone loves a charade." Well, it seems that the Census Bureau may be playing games. Last week, one of the millions of workers hired by Census 2010 to parade around the country counting...
May 25, 2010 12:00 AM
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