by Brian Martucci | Nov 23, 2023 | EV Buying, Personal EV Experience
I’m the first in my close friends-and-family network to purchase a full battery-electric vehicle. Several friends have plug-in hybrid-electric vehicles though. Before we pulled the trigger on our new car, a few of these expressed reservations about our going...
by Brian Martucci | Nov 11, 2023 | Personal EV Experience
This is the prologue, the tl;dr on why I’m writing about electric vehicle ownership in the first place. It was with great smugness that I sold my 10-year-old subcompact to a dealer in early 2022, at the height of the post-pandemic used car shortage and well...
by Brian Martucci | Mar 26, 2019 | Money Matters
…Thanks to its recently departed head, Mick Mulvaney. As a congressman, Mulvaney railed against the bureau’s very existence, and vowed as its appointed leader to soften its ostensibly anti-business edge. But the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau is...
by Brian Martucci | Jan 11, 2019 | Money Matters
According to recent reporting, about one in four Americans is underbanked, meaning they rely on expensive, potentially predatory financial products and services like payday loans and prepaid debit cards. Approximately 7% of Americans is totally unbanked. They’re...
by Brian Martucci | Jan 7, 2019 | Money Matters
I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again: I’m not much of a planner. I’m fortunate to live with someone who, among many other wonderful qualities, is an above-replacement planista. It’s not at all clear to me where I’d be without...
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