This Week in Financial Blunders: Junk Food
The biggest financial blunder one can do in their personal life is typically junk food-related. That late night fast food run, pizza order or tub of ice cream always sounds like a great idea at the...
View ArticleOpportunity Detroit: Get Plugged In
Before you get busy planning your weekend activities, don’t forget to listen in to WJR-760 AM to hear Paul W. Smith (WJR) and Stephen Luigi Piazza (Quicken Loans) hit the airwaves Saturday at 2 p.m....
View ArticleOpportunity Detroit: It’s Cold in the D
Cold weather has arrived in Detroit so don’t forget to chill out by tuning into WJR-760 AM every Friday night at 7 p.m. Paul W. Smith (WJR) and Stephen Luigi Piazza (Quicken Loans) are the stars of...
View ArticleThis Week in Financial Blunders: Coins and College
Like a cold breeze running up your spine on a brisk November day, financial blunders are hard not to notice. You try to ignore them like an impending winter, but they’re going to happen either way....
View ArticleThis Week in Financial Blunders: Dating and Pensions
As we approach the end of 2013, it’s getting a bit harder to find worthy contenders for “This Week in Financial Blunders.” Many have smartened up from a rowdy year and have decided to reign it in...
View ArticleThis YEAR in Financial Blunders
My word, what a year for financial blunders. Well, technically “This Week in Financial Blunders” hasn’t been running for a full year, but the Zing Blog would be ill-advised not to include a “best of”...
View ArticleThis Week in Financial Blunders: Smokes, Brains and Fugitives
2014! The start of the New Year is always about making a clean start – rising from the ashes of the previous year and soaring with excitement into the New Year like a baby phoenix. Unfortunately, not...
View ArticleThis Week in Financial Blunders: Junk Food
New Year’s resolutions rarely get taken seriously (at least by me anyway). It’s so easy to make a promise to improve oneself when you’re loaded with liquid courage at a party. You feel like you’re...
View ArticleThis Week in Financial Blunders: Retail and Cheerleaders
The painful part of winter has hit us: cabin fever. That itching feeling that screams “I must leave the warm confines of my house!” that is immediately countered by the invasive winter vortex that has...
View ArticleCollege Basketball Tournament Bracket Hacks
*UPDATE March 21: Thanks to a wild start to the men’s college basketball tournament that saw upset after upset, there are officially no perfect brackets remaining. That doesn’t mean the fun is over...
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