Mortgage Rates, Scary Jobs Details, Investing in 2009, Russian Gas Dispute, and More!

by Addison Wiggin & Ian Mathias Mortgage rates plunge to record lows… but are they at the bottom? ... of the credit crisis. “That’s bad,” Byron King somberly explains. “We already have an aging work force ... to 2009… how to invest amid rife market manipulation If you’ve got money, credit and patience [more...]

Date: 2009-01-08 01:36:29

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Morning Update (Scott Pioli Decision Day? Edition)

Make sure you keep checking back here, especially early this week ... about the Chiefs' Super Bowl win. The $25 million tax credit proposal that encouraged the Chiefs to move ... coach. Goes to show you just how bad a job Oakland is. Despite losing to the Pittsburgh Steelers [more...]

Date: 2009-01-12 11:36:42

Cara's Commentary & Community Chat, Wed., Oct. 15, 2008, 8:42am ET

The airwaves are now full of chatter. Everybody in the media, it seems, has a position on the economy and direction of the market ... , the more you will smell some good, some bad. You will need to have full control of your senses to help ... no tickee” syndrome. That’s what happens when job layoffs and credit withdrawals and underwater [more...]

Date: 2008-10-15 14:47:27

Malaysia Won't Go Into Recession - Nor Mohamed

BUTTERWORTH, Jan 10 (Bernama) -- The Malaysian economy will not plunge into recession though it too feels the ripple effects of the global economic ... and to resurface roads in bad shape."We do not want the money to used for big projects which will take ... to be attended to in tackling the effects of the economic turmoil were credit level and job [more...]

Date: 2009-01-10 17:23:00

Did You Make a New Year’s Resolution?

Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation; the old has gone, the new has come! ... : Lose weight Quit smoking Find a new job Get rid of credit card debt Reconcile relationships ... between the "desire" and the "decision." If we want to break a bad habit or form a new attitude [more...]

Date: 2009-01-09 13:44:00

Can’t make your car payments? Buy a Hyundai

Tightwad_tod_marks_consumer_reports It’s bad enough if you lose your job in this miserable economy. It’s even worse if you’re out of work and you’ve just invested in a new car. With more than 10 ... , the plan is a calculated gamble on the automaker’s part to bring potential buyers with responsible credit [more...]

Date: 2009-01-09 01:10:49

US Job Market getting weaker

Bad News from US and Europe keeps pouring in. Here is a recent list ... to a fourth-quarter loss as provisions for credit-losses nearly tripled, while the company showed why ... low in 2008 as weak consumer confidence ate into demand for new cars amid the world-wide financial [more...]

Date: 2009-01-16 18:03:00

Meltdown far from over, new mortgage crisis looms

from the Associated Press: Black Friday’s retail shoppers hunting for holiday bargains won’t be enough to stave off what’s likely to become the next ... Ratings Ltd., which evaluates companies’ credit. “We’re probably in the first inning ... . That’s bad news for more than just property owners. When businesses go dark, employees lose jobs [more...]

Date: 2008-11-28 16:17:23

Mortgage Rates following a Dismal Jobs Report

This mornings Jobs Report was ugly. 240,000 non-farm jobs lost in October (higher than the expected 200,000) and unemployment at 6.5% ... with a sales price of $500,000 and a loan amount of $400,000. Rates are priced based on a low-mid credit score ... . Equally bad are the revisions to August and September's figures reflecting additional losses [more...]

Date: 2008-11-07 16:48:53

Watching ads could be your ticket to a fortune.

By Paul Michael Unless it’s Superbowl Sunday, most people don’t sit around watching ads (well, I do, it’s part of my job) ... have been entertaining. It’s not like you’re sat watching ads for OxyClean or credit card debt solutions ... your ticket. Not a bad way to get a free shot at a big cash prize . And there are also runner [more...]

Date: 2008-08-19 17:16:48

The Mini Depression and the Maximum-Strength Remedy

This is not the Great Depression of the 1930s, but nor is it turning out to be merely a bad recession of the kind we've experienced periodically over ... now is not the supply of credit. Yes, Wall Street is paralyzed at the moment because the bursting ... loans. But even if credit were flowing, those loans wouldn't save jobs. Businesses want to borrow [more...]

Date: 2008-11-09 15:02:00

Treasury Check Kiting Latest Bush Debacle

President Bush has done an excellent job defending the US ... with no accountability wasn’t bad enough, now they’re pumping $6 billion into just above subprime auto loans: GMAC ... 7 years now.  For this, he deserves a great deal of credit.  But for all that, his domestic policy [more...]

Date: 2008-12-31 03:35:22

AIG CEO Demands Apology from Mad Money’s Jim Cramer

WSJ Deal Journal Related: The credit crunch means that consolidation looms for Mirant and Calpine as well. Bloomberg ... its banks. WSJ More bad news: Banking bosses weigh in on bonuses and job losses. Times ... is wreaking havoc on a large but little-known corner of the credit markets, which could mean more write-downs [more...]

Date: 2008-10-20 12:57:00

Help In A Bad Economy

Since the economy has been suffering these days, so have many people. Some businesses have had to close and lots of people have lost their jobs ... you can expand your business is by accepting credit cards, accepting and offering cash advances. Merchant [more...]

Date: 2009-01-05 18:45:35

Credit Anarchy in the U.K.

My credit score stinks in the United States, and I might be moving to the UK - what impact will this have? ... credit score? If they do, will it be much more difficult for me to find an apartment or open a bank ... that I am rather inclined to take. The job pays extremely well, but I’m wondering about how my bad [more...]

Date: 2009-01-17 04:46:39

Gordon Announces Re-Training The Already Trained For New Jobs That Don’t Exist

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/education/7785906.stmMy name’s Gordon. Am I taking the piss? Yes. Yes I am.The task is simple ... and factory workers in the 1980s, who had no skills other than making bad cars and hammering ... any liquidity, caused by banks not extending credit in the form of bridging loans. I have told [more...]

Date: 2008-12-17 15:48:04

MORE REVELATIONS FROM THE LAKEHOUSE

“More Revelations From the Lakehouse” The Epitome of Harassment, Internet Version, ... persons that surround my job, and it appears 2B getting worse, and also, is always extra bad on top ... figures beyond those of any jackpot and Powerball lottery winners. Do not ever give me credit [more...]

Date: 2009-01-11 02:18:00

Frugal Friday

Frugal Friday Christina Tynan-Wood on Oct 31 2008 | Filed under: Uncategorized The economy is bad, right? ... to my Visa card at a place called Mary’s Sandwiches, it guessed “Dining.” It did a good job, too ... passwords) giving Quicken the log-in information for my credit cards, bank accounts, and loans [more...]

Date: 2008-10-31 18:09:07

$150 000 in debt with credit card

I am about 27 years old and I am $150 i debt from bad spending habits and house payments as well as loans. I have kept a job but i am only able to pay little of my debt as just keeps increasing. I am looking into bankruptcy but i would like some further consulting. Thankyou Posted from: Ontario [more...]

Date: 2008-12-10 18:42:34

McCain’s Plan to Help Workers Practical but Lackluster

John McCain is making a concerted effort to acknowledge the decline in American jobs and explain how his plans will help workers ... , for the most part, they aren’t bad ideas – although I imagine none of this would be particularly cheap ... has to purchase our own health insurance, the tax credit sounds like a much quicker and more achievable way [more...]

Date: 2008-07-07 15:19:03

LONDON - AND LIKE JESUS, WOOLWORTHS DIED

Woolworths4 Yeah, we all know we're heading towards a complete socio-economic collapse, yadda yadda yadda, crunching credit, blah blah blah, ... , the shittiest of hell-shops has shut down. Huzzah! Ok, so lots of people have lost their jobs, but if I were ... d take cockle picking any day, so don't feel too bad for them. Woolworths became so nasty that [more...]

Date: 2008-12-30 13:39:34

Was the Bailout Too Costly?

Was the Bailout Too Costly? Written by Credit Karma October 13th, 2008 at 10:25 PM CDT No comments According to numerous sources at this point, ... of the issue, which is fixing the housing crisis and creating jobs.” She was quotes as saying in a recent ... as $700 billion dollars to buy off bad mortgage security as well as other devalued assets that [more...]

Date: 2008-10-14 04:26:06

Mortgage Market Week in Review - Jobs….

Well, it’s Friday again, everyone is back in school, my 18 year old is off to college (only 35 minutes away but still) ... to 6.1%, the highest level in, I believe, 5 years.    The numbers were not only bad, they were worse than ... . 2. It’s probably also a byproduct of the fact that the credit crunch is moving from just being [more...]

Date: 2008-09-05 20:35:23

Lost your job? Don't lose your cool

Times are tough for a lot of businesses these days, ... accounts or run up a big credit card bill. Doing so is a recipe for financial disaster. Read ... of corporate cost-cutting. As bad as things may seem, there are some things the newly jobless [more...]

Date: 2008-12-29 03:12:15

Help a Reader: Money Trouble

Here's a question a reader recently left here: My job closed up I worked for 25 yrs. My new job, I took a $15,000 pay cut a year ... my mortgages on time and never late on card payments, credit score of 735 and a ratio of 95-100%. I’ ... . I'm a single dad, divorced for 7yrs, raising my two kids on my own. Stuck in bad mortgage where [more...]

Date: 2008-09-29 19:45:22

You Need a New Job!

If you are as unahppy in your job as I was in mine, then you should think about finding a new one ... is looking for a good gas credit card, here’s a review of the best gas credit cards and a place where ... by WaMu’s failure. Hope you don’t own any of those. Yesterday I covered money tips for a bad [more...]

Date: 2008-10-03 11:33:03

Joe Magarac Wants His Job (and his Democratic Party) Back

A New (and Old) Vision Statement for the Democratic Party by Bill Levinson Larry Johnson’s No Quarter, PUMA (People United Means Change) ... credit. (U.S. Steel later adopted him as an advertising icon as “Joe, the Genie of Steel.”) “ ... he was talking about “Joe Donkey,” and it’s bad medicine to “disrespect” a giant steelworker with 21 [more...]

Date: 2008-08-27 22:23:01

Read This: Unemployment + Bad Credit = No Job

Yes you read right!  If you are unemployed and have bad credit then you have another hurdle to get past:  employers unwilling to higher you because of bad credit. It’s important to note that this is the kind of bad credit where the potential employee has shown reckless irresponsibility with their financial life thus making the employer unwilling to trust them with sensitive information.  Here in DC, that also means losing a security clearance-even after you’ve received it.  More on that later. [more...]

Date: 2009-08-19 12:30:05

How Women Can Fix Their Credit Before Applying for a Job: Part 1 — Credit Scores and Credit Reports

a guest post by Michelle Dunn credit debit card charge (www.bizchicksrule.com) ... a job interview because of some bad credit they may have. More and more employers are checking ... of the 3 credit bureaus to provide you with a free copy of your credit report annually at your request. Don’ [more...]

Date: 2008-09-18 10:18:26

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