Top Ten Ways to Avoid Bad Credit

Your credit rating is one of the essential numbers in your personal financial history ... , combined with missed payments are one of the quickest roads to a bad credit rating and should ... loans. One large balance looks a lot worse on the credit report than multiple small balances. High [more...]

Date: 2008-12-24 08:00:05

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Start Improving Your Credit Score Today

If you want to borrow money from a lender, you’ll quickly learn how important your credit score is ... your loan based on what they find. A bad credit score can also mean you’ll only be offered loans with interest rates significantly higher than standard rates. Basically, a credit score is a number [more...]

Date: 2009-01-16 00:46:34

What Are Some of the Causes of Bad Credit?

There are a number of factors that can give you a bad credit rating and make getting financing of any kind difficult, or at the least, more expensive. The lower your credit score, the more likely a bank or other finance company is to charge you higher rates of interest if they are willing to ... [more...]

Date: 2008-12-08 19:00:16

6 Step To Improve Your Credit Score Now

credit cards Your credit score is probably the single most important number in your financial life ... . Use of your credit report has infiltrated areas we never thought it would - from job applications to insurance premiums. I recently learned the impact credit score has on interest rates after finding [more...]

Date: 2008-12-02 17:06:27

Mission and Recession

by Skye Jethani The financial talking heads are attributing the current economic crisis to a number of things: lack of regulatory oversight, ... rate and over $8000 in credit card debt. As Dave Ramsey says, we are not “acting our wage.” ... bad mortgage lending practices, and globalized market structures. But some of the more plainspoken [more...]

Date: 2008-12-10 17:00:51

What Is The Leading Poor Credit Mastercard?

by Mike Gilmore These days despite a bad credit rating it is still feasible for an individual to obtain a credit card from the multitude that ... one you should apply to first - a Visa credit card or a poor credit Mastercard? Places across the world readily accept both forms of credit card and although Visa appeared to have a greater number outlets [more...]

Date: 2009-01-07 18:42:33

Meet a self-described “bank terrorist”

Revolting (h/t: Moonbattery): Bruce Marks, founder of the leftist Neighborhood Assistance Corp ... “easy lending.” Listen to NACA’s pitch: “Come to NACA, and regardless of how bad your credit ... , while increasing the number of mortgages it restructures by lowering interest rates and extending loan [more...]

Date: 2008-11-20 23:53:27

Nothing Comes Out of the G20 Meeting

G20 largely a non-event…  Pound moves up…  Brazil falls on sell off of emerging markets…  Japan enters recession… And Now… Today’s Pfennig! ... thinking about the growing number of people who no longer have jobs to report to. And the problems ... capital standards and stronger risk management at banks, hedge funds, and credit rating firms. I agree [more...]

Date: 2008-11-17 16:06:26

LEED certified buildings on the rise!

Adobe headquarters in San Jose received three platinum LEED ratings Photo credit kqedquest According to the US Green Building Council (USGBC) ... building by the numbers report (.doc warning): By 2009, 82% of corporate America is expected ... $30-$40 billion annually by 2010 With that in mind it was great to see the report that AMD’s Lone [more...]

Date: 2009-01-14 18:16:45

LEED certified buildings on the rise!

Adobe headquarters in San Jose received three platinum LEED ratings Photo credit kqedquest According to the US Green Building Council (USGBC) ... building by the numbers report (.doc warning): By 2009, 82% of corporate America is expected ... $30-$40 billion annually by 2010 With that in mind it was great to see the report that AMD’s Lone [more...]

Date: 2009-01-14 18:16:45

Child identity Theft

When a child is born, a parent may apply for a Social Security number for that child ... could be stolen at the hospital or at a health professionals’ office. What about the dishonest legal ... . Typically, your not going to check your child’s credit rating (why would you), so your not going [more...]

Date: 2008-09-11 11:04:46

Movie Review: Paul Blart: Mall Cop (2009)

Kevin James as Paul Blart in Paul Blart: Mall Cop Photo: Columbia Pictures It’s funny because he’s fat ... out to steal some credit card numbers. Unfortunately they messed up when they kidnapped Blart’s love ... that is the audience this PG-rated cartoony effort is targeting. That’s not a bad thing, it’s just not my thing [more...]

Date: 2009-01-16 06:52:54

December’s unemployment numbers are out…

I seem to do a post like this once a month, whenever the numbers come out ... again?  But with our interest rates about as low as they can go, housing collapsing, credit crunching [more...]

Date: 2009-01-09 19:39:56

Cheap secured loan: easy access to low rate financial assistance

Cheap secured loan offers monetary assistance with the best possible terms and conditions. The loan can be used to fulfill a number of demands and are available to good credit as well as bad credit borrowers. You can also undertake a proper research of the online market to avail [more...]

Date: 2009-01-17 06:56:27

Today's Cartoon: Taking The High Road

According to Rasmussen Reports,a poll conducted on July 1, 2008 shows that Congress now has an all-time low favorable approval rating of 9%! ... for months to create a software "patch" released on Tuesday to repair the problem, which is in the way ... of businesses such as bank or credit card companies to trick them into disclosing account numbers [more...]

Date: 2008-07-09 21:49:43

D. Other Publishers

A number of publications from non-Nolo publishers have a wealth of information beyond what is in this book. The Ultimate Credit Handbook, by Gerri Detweiler (Plume Books), covers everything you’d want to know about credit ratings, credit cards, completing credit applications, protecting your credit privacy and many other topics. Surviving Debt: A Guide for Consumers, by National Consumer Law Center. NCLC is a nonprofit organization that normally publishes books to assist lawyers. [more...]

Date: 2009-09-24 02:03:01

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