Lou Carlozo
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Lou Carlozo
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Filed under: Budgets, Money College
Remember when your parents said that someday, you would have to learn how to balance a checkbook? Did you ever learn how? I didn't.. Do you even use a checkbook? I don't.Filed under: Money College, In the News
Here in Chicago, a lot of us are asking questions about Grace Groner (pictured), the elderly "secret millionaire" who gave $7 million to Lake Forest College, her alma mater, when she passed away in January. Allow me, a Chicagoan and the editor of the Money College, to step in and answer some frequently asked questions.Filed under: Extracurriculars, In the News
Will Lauren McClusky, the Chicago teenager who raised the ire of McDonald's attorneys after she tried to copyright the charity concert name McFest, finally get to Have It Her Way Filed under: Make Money Fast, Charity
The ongoing saga of Chicago teenager Lauren McClusky and her fight to keep the name McFest attached to her charity concert event -- even as McDonald's attorneys seek to block her from doing so -- now involves an ocean liner, thousands of comments from AOL users, and public relations people who refuse to speak about the matter other than through prepared McStatements.Filed under: Home, Saving Money, Health
Filed under: Charity, In the News
You couldn't blame Lauren McClusky of Chicago if she were a bit squeamish about using her last name in this story without fear of reprisal from Ronald McDonald and his legal posse.Filed under: Recession
In a year that saw 40,000 journalists lose their jobs and 143 newspapers fold, Editor & Publisher magazine stood like a sentinel, reporting every layoff, bankruptcy and closing with accuracy and integrity. But now, after 125 years of never missing a deadline or a chance to call industry leaders to the carpet for incompetence, E&P is being put to bed itself.Filed under: Recession Diaries
By now, you know the numbers statisticians and economists most often use to paint the picture of the Great Recession: unemployment percentages, jobs lost and created, and gross national product among them. Now, add to that another crucial though less obvious number: shifts in U.S. population growth.Filed under: Tax - Audit, Tax - Advice, Tax - Credit, Tax - Deduction, Tax - Online
The tax gods smiled on me when they made me the younger brother of a CPA -- a guy who saved my butt countless times back in the day when I didn't know a tax return from toilet paper. Thus I've always had the advantage of instant, free tax advice when I need it.Filed under: Recession Diaries
Last year at this time, one writer -- and only one -- in the entire Chicago Tribune features department was either brave or foolish enough to bare his family finances for all to see: yours truly.
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