Your car, the black box and Big Brother

Everyone’s familiar with the idea of “black boxes” in commercial airliners. They keep a record of everything the aircraft does so that, in the event of an accident, investigators can reconstruct what happened in the minutes leading up to the crash.

Taming Inflation
The Federal Reserve has put the brakes on inflation without harming the economy.

Rethinking Timeshares
Timeshares aren’t always a bad deal. Here’s how to get one at a good price.

Undue Worry
The sharp drop in stocks because of the Mideast violence seems overdone.

What to do about freeloading co-workers
QUESTION: Ten of us go out to dinner after work once or twice a week, always splitting the tab equally.

Unfriendly Skies
I don’t share the recent enthusiasm over the prospects for the airline sector.

A New Yahoo Strategy
Round two of my eBay/Yahoo experiment ended badly. Time for a new approach.

Dodging Your Lease
New web sites allow you do what was once impossible: get out of your auto lease.

After the Pause
The Fed has never resumed rate hikes after pausing. Prepare your portfolio accordingly.