Doing anything to disrupt that could mean serious trouble for the company, but what Peipler is talking about still belongs in the partnership world.

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The potential consequences mean it is worth any extra trouble to make sure credit-card companies, hospitals and physicians, student-loan companies and home and car lenders have your correct address and an active email address so that you don't miss their bills.

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On a larger scale, that could mean Google gets in trouble for pointing the way to illegally shared copyrighted content.

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In fact, if you promise to keep this between us, because, I mean, I could get in trouble for this.

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The 103-page document ( pdf) is designed to help wind energy projects steer clear of eagle trouble, which could mean either steering clear of eagle territory entirely or embarking on a five-stage process to minimize harm to eagles.

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That could mean trouble for housing-related stocks, which have enjoyed a tremendous rally dating back to last fall.

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As a result, consumer confidence is falling -- in other words, fewer people are planning to buy homes, cars or appliances in the next six months and that, could mean trouble.

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It doesn't mean -- it doesn't determine whether you're going to take an advantage of the options that are -- and it doesn't mean that people will alone make good decisions and do their homework and stay out of trouble and listen to their teachers.

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