A $400K Lesson About Greed

Last week, I linked to a video about how someone had multiple shots at a six digit payday on a game show and lost it all because they were staring ... . Don’t buy stuff from an international seller unless its with a credit card. Money orders ... Get In Too Deep The first few hundred you throw after a bad thing can be chalked up to stupidity [more...]

Date: 2008-11-20 19:16:05

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Coinstar Promo: $40 in Coins = $50 in Gift Certificates

Coinstar is running a 2008 Holiday Promotion where you can turn $40 in loose change into $50 of Amazon.com gift certificates (or any gift certificate that they offer). Not a bad way to get rid of some change and pay ... combine this with buying $1 coins from the US Mint to get credit card points. [more...]

Date: 2008-11-10 11:36:31

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

Die Broke: A Radical Four-Part Financial Plan

Conventional money wisdom focuses on saving. If you earn more, limit expenses, and plan properly, ... ) Pay Cash (reserve credit for times when you cannot pay cash, like buying a house or a car) Don’ ... off of a cliff) Die Broke (unnecessarily saving for an inheritance can be bad for families, bad [more...]

Date: 2008-12-19 08:37:19

FHA Loans- Affordability Solutions for First Time Homebuyers

Author: Jared Martin “FHA” and “First Time Homebuyers” are real buzzwords as far as home buying is concerned, ... . The intent of this article is to quantify the features of this loan, both good and bad, and discuss ... Housing Authority. Recent events in the credit markets have made the FHA loan a true affordability [more...]

Date: 2009-01-02 03:10:31

Best Way to Get Cash That Easy

Find your financial solution at Perfectcashadvance.com, if you are in bad financial situation now, in Perfectcashadvance ... only at Perfectcashadvance.com. Someday we are in bad financial position, where we need money to do/ to buy something, but we don’t have enough cash money. If you dont have any credit card [more...]

Date: 2009-01-08 01:40:47

AMC, Wells (Appraisal - a Must Read) , US Bank, GMAC updates; MortgageIT gone, What’s with the buy-ups? Rates tumble

The economy is pretty bad right now. Yesterday I was putting a foreclosed sign on my house, and while I was doing that, ... this decision based on the struggling economy, the credit crisis, and the integration with Merrill Lynch [more...]

Date: 2008-12-12 15:11:03

Why Does Anyone Think the Recession is Bad for Apple?

Why Does Anyone Think the Recession is Bad for Apple? 12:01 am, November 20th, 2008, Pete Mortensen AAPL Growth.png ... from one of the world’s largest companies, showing that the current credit crisis doesn’t actually ... player market. When people aren’t buying cars and houses, they still find time for personal entertainment [more...]

Date: 2008-11-20 08:31:18

Sometimes…buying women stuffs are so mind boggling

My supplies of Bobbi Brown loose powder and compact foundation are running low ... the credit card bill comes. But I see some poor women struggling with their conscience even when these poor ... . Times are bad, recession is looming and so, I decided to stop buying them. Moreover [more...]

Date: 2008-11-02 15:49:49

The current crisis is near the end....

This post is by Jim Fitch of Some Assembly Required. When someone tells you the current crisis is "near the end", ask them which end ... as much credit card debt in June as economists thought possible, increasing their total Visa bill to $2.59 ... struggle to swallow the bad debt it got when it spent $24 billion to buy doomed mortgage lender Golden [more...]

Date: 2008-08-11 13:40:58

State of the Stimulus Report

In the spirit of scrambling to keep tabs on federal attempts to grease our economic machine, ... to buy debt from ten issuers. Money market funds are chock-full of bad assets. The Fed’s move ... of what we know only as the “credit crunch” every time it takes a step forward. Thoughts: -Trickle-down [more...]

Date: 2008-10-21 18:15:10

Consumer confidence falls to record low

The Conference Board reported a record low in consumer confidence in the U.S. going all the way back to 1967 when record-keeping began ... percent. In bad news for retail sales, only 4.4 percent of the sample say they expect to buy a car ... . Falling home equity, plunging stock markets, and a credit crisis, the likes of which few [more...]

Date: 2008-10-28 15:34:00

The Ups and Downs of Buying a Home

Pretty soon this will be our yard! We’ve been on the home buying roller coaster for almost a month now, ... .  We meet my dad at the house and tour the inside.  It’s in bad shape, but we like the lot ... the numbers, checks our credit, and determines that we should have no trouble qualifying.  That night [more...]

Date: 2008-07-24 11:00:15

How Wall Street’s Meltdown Helps Main Street’s Housing

Just for fun, let’s imagine a possible silver lining to the complete melt down on Wall Street ... to extend car loans, credit card debt, retail debt and so on.  But this may not be all bad ... are up and his long commute is killing them.  They need to buy a different car.  “But no one is lending money [more...]

Date: 2008-09-19 13:00:15

The Bad Paper Chase

The Bad Paper Chase November 26th, 2008 admin And the handout/buyout craze continues ... such as credit cards, auto loans and student loans. By all means, let’s just keep buying up debts from people ... Loan Banks. It also will purchase another $500 billion in mortgage-backed securities, pools [more...]

Date: 2008-11-26 07:37:00

We’re Never Going To Go Back To The Heyday

The News Journal reports from Delaware. “For Delaware in particular, key industries are sensitive to national economic conditions ... a certain credit score. Deborah combined the No-Document Loan with another loan and was able to buy ... . That point has been hammered home in recent weeks with employers dumping bad news on workers. ‘” [more...]

Date: 2008-10-24 15:48:52

REPORT: Credit lines increasingly hard to come by for auto dealers

Filed under: Car Buying Like him or loathe him, George W. Bush's clearest, most salient speech came almost a year ago on September 25, 2008 when our Harvard MBA president explained to the nation and the world exactly how bad the economy had gotten and why so much federal money ($700 billion-ish at the time) was being hurled at America's banks. The full speech can be found here , but one little section bears quoting: The decline in the housing market set off a domino effect across our economy. [more...]

Date: 2009-09-03 15:02:57

Banks and Consumers Are the Problem, Not Bad Assets

Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson announced that he has shelved the original plan to buy troubled mortgage assets via the recently approved $700 ... loans, student loans and credit cards. This is creating a heavy burden on the American people [more...]

Date: 2008-11-14 12:14:14

The Four-Paragraph White Flag

As I watched the following section of President Bush's speech tonight, ... if you have good credit history, it would be more difficult for you to get the loans you need to buy a car ... instinct is to oppose government intervention. I believe companies that make bad decisions should [more...]

Date: 2008-09-25 03:46:00

The Breakdown of the World Money Machine

A bad year…and 2009 doesn’t look much better…the worldwide financial crunch is affecting everyone… 2008 will go down as the worst year for investors ... s the first priority. I have to feed them…and buy medicines and fertilizers…even though nobody is buying ... money because they can’t get good prices for their cows…and can’t get credit from the bank [more...]

Date: 2008-12-30 20:49:57

HOUSING PUSH FOR HISPANICS SPAWNS WAVE OF FORECLOSURES

For years, immigrants to the U.S. have viewed buying a home as the ultimate benchmark of success ... loans, which carry high interest rates and are tailored to borrowers with low credit scores or few ... the housing boom. But when these markets began to weaken, bad loans depressed the value of neighboring [more...]

Date: 2009-01-06 13:19:54

What am I so afraid of?

Tyler Cowen lays it out: The best case scenario: The bad banks continue to be bought up, there is no run on hedge funds next Tuesday, only mid-sized European banks fail, money market funds keep on buying commercial paper ... not rise above eight or nine percent. The worst case scenario: Credit markets freeze up within [more...]

Date: 2008-09-30 16:53:31

Bush: 'Entire economy is in danger'

by Mark Silva President Bush, delivering a nationally televised appeal for an unprecedented federal buyout of $700 billion in bad mortgage debts, ... be more difficult for you to get the loans you need to buy a car or send your children to college ... , you would find it harder and more expensive to get credit. More businesses would close their doors [more...]

Date: 2008-09-25 02:13:56

The Bad Paper Chase

And the handout/buyout craze continues. The Federal Reserve said Tuesday it will buy up to $600 billion in mortgage-backed assets in another attempt ... obligations from mortgage giants Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac as well as the Federal Home Loan Banks ... also unveiled a new program to help unfreeze the market that backs consumer debt such as credit cards [more...]

Date: 2008-11-26 00:46:42

Find More Results For Car Loans Automobile Financing Bad

by Thulas Sukati Very few people use their own funds when they decide to buy a car but how much do you know about auto loans? ... only a few years old. Auto loans are available to everyone provided their credit rating is clean, therefore, before making that application, carry out a search to make sure yours is ok. If you credit [more...]

Date: 2008-10-09 21:13:41

When good gift cards go bad

When good gift cards go bad Posted by Beth Hering in Current Events, Holidays, Money | November 23rd, 2008 | Comments(5) ... buy this holiday season. If the store or restaurant goes belly-up before you redeem your card ... . While the article suggests perhaps purchasing open-ended cards issued by major credit companies (good [more...]

Date: 2008-11-23 12:29:51

Search Term "Tiffany replica" on top 10 Tiffany replica websites listed in google, Simple comparison was done to find out the best replica of all.

This article is for people who wants to buy Tiffany products online. It is pertinent that they are purchasing from a reliable source ... your credit card number or personal information. Online frauds are very common nowadays and one needs to know how to identify the good from the bad. Objective: To compare and see what is good and bad [more...]

Date: 2009-01-17 19:47:59

Windows Vista Tips - How to Recover to an Earlier Point in Time!

Today, I decided to buy a new laptop since my previous two $2000 HP laptops keep dying on me constantly ... mode. (image credit) 2) Select “System Restore” and you will be able to select which “time” ... to restore to a point in time.  But the bad news is that I should have been able to boot my Vista at least [more...]

Date: 2008-10-08 04:22:04

Pancake City Online Buying Guide

I don’t understand the yearly rush of shoppers on Black Friday ... in Google or check out an aggregator like RetailMeNot. Credit card sites sometimes have coupons around ... and for the next few months because the economy is so bad. Retailers are going to be forced to slash [more...]

Date: 2008-12-05 04:13:08

U.S. Government Should Publish All Mortgages It Buys

It appears that the United States government is going to purchase hundreds of billions of dollars worth of bad mortgages in an effort to prevent the ... -- affected directly by failing mortgages, decreasing home prices, and the accompanying social problems ... of the Bear Stearns High-Grade Structured Credit Strategies Master Fund. This fund is a classic [more...]

Date: 2008-09-24 22:11:26

The New China, Bush Asks for TARP, 2009 Oil Surprise, Buy Turkmenistan and More!

by Addison Wiggin & Ian Mathias Chinese exports dive; oil imports, money supply and leverage rise… sound familiar? Bush asks for rest of $700 billion TARP… S&P says USA’s credit rating getting shaky Dan ... d been forecasting that because the economic paradigm “We think, they sweat” was a bad one — it was unlikely [more...]

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

Buy a New Car or Fix the One I’ve Got?

I knew it. I just knew my car was in bad shape. I’ve talked about it before, and I knew it was going to happen ... looking at about €4,000.” We don’t have €4,000. Not only that, but we won’t get approved for a loan ... of money, it’s going to have to be through tapping the open line of credit at a gazillion percent [more...]

Date: 2008-10-17 10:00:17

Is It Safe To Buy California Munis?

In my last post, I mentioned that about California was running out of cash ... , the head of municipal credit research at bond giant Pimco, agrees. “They clearly have the ability to pay,” he said. But he added that the main risk is headline risk, where bad news smacks prices [more...]

Date: 2009-01-17 16:15:41

List ‘em Right, Dog!

Welcome to get our of your feedreader weekend! Photo Credit It’s a Dog Eat Dog World Out There I had a buyer in town for the last three days ... someone in to buying this junk? Your Listings Reflect Your Brand - Are They Saying ‘Woof’ ... and un-prompted - is really worth mulling over. After a couple of bad showings in a row that happened [more...]

Date: 2008-10-06 18:11:37

Finding Money for your Borrowers

With the credit crunch in full swing, investors should start to pay attention the the lending options available to their buyers ... with a down payment.  While this is not a bad thing long term it certainly is not good for sellers come ... Rural Home Loan Program has been an alternative solution for those that buying and selling homes [more...]

Date: 2008-08-07 22:30:34

The Dollar Can’t Survive This Crisis… Buy Gold Now

Yesterday, traders sent the Dow down a record 777 points. Today, the mood is more upbeat. The Dow is up 363 points ... good for it” if the bet goes bad. So now, thanks to the laxity of Greenspan, Bernanke, the SEC ... multiple” of which depends greatly on a few key things. (Like functional credit markets [more...]

Date: 2008-09-30 19:31:55

Bad Credit Loans & Debt Consolidation

By Vernon DeFlanders If you're buying your first home, bad credit loan consultants have access to the best home loans on the market ... by availing of a bad credit home loan is a major step towards credit repair. Moreover, if you can keep ... . This dream is not even out of reach for people with bad credit histories and they offer specially [more...]

Date: 2008-07-06 19:02:51

Live in Rest with Real Estate Loans

by katie George You are looking for a nice home to live in rest but what is worrying you is the limited budget ... loans can be accessed by everyone. Thus both good and bad credit holders are welcomed here ... financial assistance for buying home, a bad credit holder can also improve his adverse credit score [more...]

Date: 2008-12-29 19:07:57

Auto Loans Bad Credit – Buy a Car While Improving your Credit

Auto loans bad credit are for those people who do not hold a good credit, but wish to buy a car of their own. These are of two kinds; secured and unsecured. These are quickly processed and do no charge very high interest rates. [more...]

Date: 2009-01-10 16:04:41

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