Warning: While custodians for self-directed IRAs do sponsor seminars featuring promoters, they're not allowed to recommend specific investments and aren't on the hook if you pick a bad or bogus one.

FORBES: Magazine Article

If your broker borrows your stock in a cash (not a margin) account, he has to ask your permission -- and if anything goes wrong and he can't return the borrowed shares, his firm is on the hook to make you whole.

WSJ: Is Your Fund Pawning Shares Off You?

At times, Undiscovered falls back on agreeable but conventional neo-soul, but on "The Pieces Don't Fit Anymore, " Morrison seizes on a hauntingly snaky hook that burrows under the skin.

NPR: Pop and Soul, with a Ghostly Moan

There is indeed no two-year contract, but if you should stop your service with T-Mobile, you're still on the hook for the rest of the value of that phone.

ENGADGET: Editor's Letter: A not-so simple choice

The feature hadn't been flipped on yet when we checked out the app, but eventually it will hook into Facebook or the Game Center and allow you to challenge friends to a little remote one-on-one action.

ENGADGET: NERF Cyberhoop hands-on: foam basketball for the iPad generation

Accountable Care Organizations are also on the hook for patients who don't comply with recommended treatment or lifestyle changes.

WSJ: Christensen, Flier and Vijayaraghavan:The Coming Failure of 'Accountable Care'

In Muskoka taxpayers are on the hook for a refurbished steamboat that won't even float until the summit is over, and new outdoor toilets 20km from the meeting site.

ECONOMIST: Ostentation in a time of austerity