by Brian Martucci | Jun 7, 2021 | Money Matters
How many credit cards do you carry in your wallet? Do you have any other active card accounts lurking in a lockbox or secure filing cabinet at home? In a Money Crashers post a few years back, I gamed out multiple answers to a question that you’ve probably...
by Brian Martucci | Apr 3, 2021 | Public Square
Most of my work for Money Crashers is evergreen, meant to last for months or years without going out of style. With a few tweaks, my piece on safety tips for international travelers will probably be useful a decade from now. Barring some catastrophic change in lending...
by Brian Martucci | May 9, 2020 | Public Square, Reflections
There’s not much about my work that I actively dislike. If you put me on the spot and asked me to name the one part of the job I could do without, I’d finger those long, silent stretches spent wrangling staccato thoughts into fluent sentences. I’m...
by Brian Martucci | Dec 31, 2019 | Professional Development, Reflections
Years ago, I worked for a national quick-serve restaurant chain. My home shop was among the system’s busiest – a real hive of busy work. During rushes, the back of the house was chaotic beyond description, but I thrived there. I took pride in being the first to...
by Brian Martucci | Sep 4, 2019 | Reflections
I managed to avoid political reporting until 2018, when I published a series of candidate profiles and issue pieces for OZY. Some of my conclusions held up better than others. (Unfortunately, OZY very publicly collapsed in 2021, so none of these articles are available...