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Wondering what to do about the Equifax breach, which affected 143 million American consumers? Here are seven defensive measures that improve your identity-theft radar, make yourself a smaller target, and create a credit-repair plan now in case cyber thieves violate your credit later.

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You know something is wrong when a streaming music company – rather than Wall Street – is improving the process for private companies that go public. That’s right. In today’s Wall Street Journal, I explain Spotify’s “direct listing” and theorize what it means to wealth management at big brokerage institutions.

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You know something is wrong when a streaming music company – rather than Wall Street – is improving the process for private companies that go public. That’s right. In today’s Wall Street Journal, I explain Spotify’s “direct listing” and theorize what it means to wealth management at big brokerage institutions.

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J.K. Galbraith once said, "The honest man becomes committed to the crook before he knows there is anything wrong." This post describe three behaviors of financial predators and includes my favorite technique for spotting bad guys.

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In this WSJ column, I interview a cybersecurity expert who divides cybercrooks into 4 categories: street-corner thieves, blue-collar thieves, white-collar thieves, and oligarchs.

True confessions: I find the process of getting organized about as enjoyable as listening to fingernails against a chalkboard. But financial chaos is an invitation for trouble, which is why I’m looking for painless ways to create order. This one traces back to my summer job between years at Harvard Business School…

Between years in business school, I worked for a real estate developer on the Forbes 400 list of the richest Americans. He employed an insurance executive full time whose job was to find property and casualty coverage for his homes, artwork, and assorted toys, which were worth a bundle but unrelated to his business ventures. […]

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Spoiler alert: The villains in my novels all come from Yale. But my column in today's WSJ is non-fiction...and it sure was fun to hear these wealth-management stories from Joe McNay, a great guy and non-villain from Yale's class of 1956. Among other things, he describes what it was like to manage money for Bill and Hillary Clinton...

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In The Dirty Little Secrets of Money, Norb teaches readers how to invest wisely and safeguard their money from financial predators whether they hail from Wall Street, the annuity-industrial complex, Silicon Valley, the dark web, radio and television airwaves, or between the sheets of the readers’ own beds.

A must-read for new and seasoned investors. PRE-ORDER on Amazon.

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In The Dirty Little Secrets of Money, Norb Vonnegut teaches readers how to invest wisely and safeguard their money from financial predators whether they hail from Wall Street, the annuity-industrial complex, Silicon Valley, the dark web, radio and television airwaves, or between the sheets of the readers’ own beds.

Keep hard-earned money safe for your family by embracing the five precepts in this defensive handbook, a must-read for new and seasoned investors alike. PRE-ORDER on Amazon.

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