Sometimes people ask me what I think about the latest news about COVID-19 scams or related coronavirus breaking news; in the case of some of the most recent nonsense (see below) an eye roll is all I can muster--until you realize that there are plenty of people who don’t think about such things until a scammer is practically knocking on your front door to part you from your money. In November 2020, CNBC.com reported that YouTube banned the One … [Read more...]
Employment Social Distancing And Remote Work: How To Survive
Remote work is the new normal for many industries. Thanks to the coronavirus pandemic, many people who are used to working in a school, library, office, coffee shop, car dealership, or any other “in-person” business are finding themselves having to adjust to working from home. That is definitely NOT NEWS. But what IS news is the notion that the work-from-home and employment social distancing measures everyone hoped would be … [Read more...]
Las Vegas Set To Reopen Casinos, Other Businesses Remain Closed
With Las Vegas Set to reopen casinos on June 4, 2020, other businesses remain closed. The Governor of Nevada, Steve Sisolak set the date (on a tentative basis) after what has been reported as “two weeks of continued decreases” in new COVID-19 diagnoses and hospitalizations. Reopening Nevada & COVID-19 Case Numbers At the time of this writing, Worldometers.info reports Nevada with having some 7,879 total cases, but following a long Memorial … [Read more...]
What You Need To Know About COVID-19 Era Credit Reporting
Are you worried about credit reporting and what might happen to your credit during the COVID-19 lockdown? Businesses have been shuttered for two months or longer, millions of homeowners are applying for mortgage forbearance due to lost income, and many struggle to keep up with their monthly payments. What do you need to know about credit reporting during COVID-19? Credit Reporting Is Still Happening The government’s consumer watchdog site, The … [Read more...]
Surviving COVID-19: Simple Rules, Observations
Here is a list of survival tactics you should be using to weather the COVID-19 pandemic. Plenty of pundits are trying to politicize this global health crisis; what follows has absolutely NOTHING to do with politics and EVERYTHING to do with the survival (financial and otherwise) of you and your loved ones. Articles like this should not be necessary given the amount of publicity and information sharing about coronavirus. But after two weeks of … [Read more...]