Watch Out for Possible Credit Card Scams

I am constantly amazed by the creativity of thieves when it comes to ways to scamming people ... card. Bad Photography A lady paid by using my Visa Check Card, and the young man behind ... will be so much better. Currently in the United States, the credit card companies take the burden off [more...]

Date: 2008-10-30 15:25:07

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Bank of America to receive additional $20 billion

Eric Dash, Louise Story and Andrew Ross Sorkin International Herald Tribune Kenneth Lewis gambled on bold acquisitions to build Bank of America into the nation’s largest bank. But the need for fresh government support to grapple with the newly revealed losses at Merrill Lynch, [more...]

Date: 2009-01-16 20:44:24

CreditLawGroup Credit Repair Blog

CreditLawGroup provides a comprehensive cost-effective way to address inaccurate, outdated, unverifiable, ... reports which resulted from identity theft. The Credit Law Group Blog offers a simple guide to credit ... incorrect or otherwise improper information which may be contained on your credit report [more...]

Date: 2008-07-28 16:32:44

Feds now the largest shareholder of Bank of America

International Herald Tribune, “Bank of America to receive additional $20 billion” Kenneth Lewis gambled on bold acquisitions to build Bank of America into the nation’s largest bank. But the need for fresh government support to grapple with the newly revealed losses at Merrill Lynch, [more...]

Date: 2009-01-16 19:55:14

Recession Proof Small Businesses

In times of economic trouble people’s minds turn to recession proof small businesses as career ideas There are some recession proof small businesses ... : consumer credit counseling services; companies that repair credit; headhunters, temp agencies or other ... to fix it. If you have repair or handyman skills [more...]

Date: 2009-01-14 11:00:30

The Friday Gathering - Need some advice edition

Photo by:Point-Shoot-Edit My wife and I were having a discussion last night about our house ... of: 1) Save up the money and repair the house, which means we’ll have to stay here for a while or 2) Take out a home equity line and use that money to repair the house and then pay it off once [more...]

Date: 2008-06-27 09:00:18

Top 3 Customer Rock Stars for 2008

I was asked to spend a few minutes recently on the Big Biz Show (a nationally-syndicated radio program) discussing my thoughts about business in 2008 with a look ahead to 2009. I thought I would share some of those insights here at Customers Rock! to inspire you for the upcoming year [more...]

Date: 2009-01-05 21:27:36

Double Your Money Next Year With Starbucks (SBUX)

HIDDEN VALUE Dear Value Seeker, Christmas is almost upon us. Business activity is winding down. In some cases, it’s stopping altogether ... to do during the credit boom. It ruined the private sector. Now the government is going to have a go. Think [more...]

Date: 2008-12-23 13:03:21

Circuit City To Close All Stores in the United States

Big-box technology retailer Circuit City is asking for court approval to liquidate after two failed attempts at acquisition. The Richmond, Va.-based company said Friday that it plans to close its remaining 567 stores in the United States. The move comes after the company filed a motion with the U.S. Bankruptcy Court to put the company [more...]

Date: 2009-01-16 19:18:57

Bailout (of rum, arrows, race tracks)

by Frank James What do rum, motorsport race tracks and wooden arrows used by kids all have in common? The financial markets bailout bill, that's what. Taxpayers for Common Sense has compiled a handy list of what it called the top ten tax-related provisions in the financial-markets bailout bill passed yesterday by the Senate and they include [more...]

Date: 2008-10-02 19:05:21

Review: TechRestore Mac Repair

Not too long ago I accidentally dropped my MacBook Air onto a hard floor and the screen cracked. I knew that I did not have the time or patience to let Apple take it away for repair ... Label TechRestore pride themselves with affordable service and fast turnaround time. For a standard [more...]

Date: 2008-08-11 05:08:43

Assessing Your Debt Situation (5)

mprove your gas mileage by tuning up your car, checking the air in the tires and driving less—carpool, work at home (telecommute) ... be a last resort. Always look to raise money from nonretirement resources first. Taken From : Credit Repair by Attorneys Robin Leonard and Deanne Loonin [more...]

Date: 2009-01-17 05:00:12

DrumBeat: January 1, 2009

Blackout fear for EU as gas row escalates Jose Manuel Barroso, the European Commission president, called on Moscow and Kiev to solve the dispute as soon as possible. While Gazprom, the Russian ... , there are fears that Germany, Italy and other customers could eventually be hit if the dispute escalates [more...]

Date: 2009-01-01 13:44:53

Review of Lexington Law Firm

by John Cooper Lexington Law is a credit repair firm that is headquartered out of Salt Lake, Utah ... ? Yes, this is legal and credit repair is your responsibility. The Fair Credit Reporting Act gives ... . Then Lexington will create a dispute letter on your behalf and send it to each credit bureau [more...]

Date: 2009-01-15 00:09:02

Confusing Consumption With Investment

People are now waking up to the fact that what that real estate investment guru was pitching at the seminar wasn’t necessarily an "investment": ... credit report Mortgage for people with bad credit Credit card machine to buy Free credit report ... home loan rate refinance Bad credit home improvement loan Bad credit personal loan 1 Home interest [more...]

Date: 2008-06-24 14:10:35

Bad Credit Repair Guides

Thursday, October 30, 2008 Do you often rejected in applying for loan because of your bad credit record? ... struggling, the bad records of our late payments and other kind of negative reports will hurt our credit ... score for some points. If you have no any idea on how to obtain those credit reports [more...]

Date: 2008-10-30 07:29:00

Gates of Vienna News Feed 11/9/2008

Don’t miss Bill Ayers’ op-ed in the Toronto Star.Also worth looking at: the “Axis of Evil” countries love Obama. Kenya is expecting a quid pro quo from its favorite son. Corzine is rumored to be in line for Treasury. And the recession hits China.Thanks to Abu Elvis, C [more...]

Date: 2008-11-10 04:33:00

Climate News Roundup: June 13 - June 19, 2008

Friday, June 13, 2008 SOLAR THERMAL POWER: In Israel's Negev Desert blooms a field of 1,640 robotic mirrors that behave like sunflowers. It is the world's 'highest-performing, lowest-cost' sun-energy system. says the company testing it. Los Angeles Times, California. 13 June 2008. INTERNATIONAL: U.S [more...]

Date: 2008-06-19 20:38:00

Fallon Brainfood: Communicators Forum @ University of Minnesota

I presented a keynote at last week's Communicators Forum and I ran over time before I could answer many of the Question Cards from the audience ... (no repair, no acknowledgment) in face of a critique. This lack of any response fuels a revenge mentality [more...]

Date: 2008-06-28 14:13:00

New Financing Source in Cleveland Helps Small Business Owners

CLEVELAND (Oct. 27, 2008) - Kevin O’Connor today announced the launch of his Wirth Business Credit operation, ... credit and borrowing standards from traditional lenders, who are jittery about potential risk,” O’ ... . Wirth Business Credit helps to fill the gap for small business owners who are stranded.” Specializing [more...]

Date: 2008-11-01 11:59:14

From the Archives (June 8th - July 5th)

Here are some of my favorite FCN articles from a year ago the past few weeks: ... Toilet » More on (Moron?) Leaky Toilet Repair » The Top (and Bottom) Jobs in the US » Tips ... and Federal Income Tax Arbitrage » How to Link Additional Accounts to Emigrant Direct » Ten Tips [more...]

Date: 2008-07-07 03:35:10

200+ Tools for Surviving the Economic Crisis

With Wall Street’s recent decline and the economy in such an uncertain place, many people are fearful of losing their jobs and lifelong investments ... in that it aggregates your different accounts from banks and credit cards, lets you budget and also [more...]

Date: 2008-10-16 22:24:58

News Of The Day

As governor, David Paterson finds himself at war with his former allies, ... OpEd that he gave her "an opening to repair her image with the anti-war base." Barack Obama's ... ' finance chairman, a powerful Texas lawyer, tried to cover up the ex-candidate's affair. John McCain [more...]

Date: 2008-08-15 13:08:41

Friday Digest - Vol. 09 No. 02

Friday Digest — Vol. 09 No. 0216 January 2009THE FOUNDATION"We should never despair, our Situation before has been unpromising and has changed for the better, so I trust, it will again. If new difficulties arise, we must only put forth new Exertions and proportion our Efforts to the exigency of the times [more...]

Date: 2009-01-16 17:15:00

Motorola Introduces Out-of-the-box Imaging Solution for Reading U.S. Driver Licenses

VDC Study Confirms Motorola's Global Leadership Position in Growing Imaging Market HOLTSVILLE, N.Y., /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- The Enterprise Mobility business of Motorola, Inc. (NYSE: MOT) introduced the Symbol DS6708-DL digital imager scanner -- the industry's only complete solution designed to read and parse the data embedded in the PDF-417 [more...]

Date: 2008-07-05 12:44:56

Credit repair service

Do you know what is a big deal in the United states of America?. Well if you do not know, then I am here to tell you that ... go wrong. This is when you would need a profesisonal credit repair service. But you have to know to differentiate between a good service to repair credit and others. It is pretty sensitive and needs [more...]

Date: 2009-01-17 01:34:34

How to Remove a Tax Lien From Your Credit

by Matt Douglas If you have a tax lien on your credit report, you should take immediate action to remove it ... is to have the bureaus validate the lien. You need to send each bureau a dispute letter. Surprisingly it is not out of the ordinary for incorrect information to be reported on your credit. It is estimated [more...]

Date: 2009-01-15 08:40:48

From the Kitchen to the Car: DIY Fryer Fuel

This article was written by Sarah Rich in March 2007. We're republishing it here as part of our month-long editorial retrospective. ... At first glance, you wouldn't know this place from the many other European auto repair shops around [more...]

Date: 2008-09-16 18:33:20

Circuit City to shut down remaining stores

After exploring other options, Circuit City said Friday it will begin liquidating all remaining stores. Circuit City calls it quits.(Credit: Circuit City) About 30,000 employees face layoffs as the rest of its 567 stores are closed. The fates of outstanding warranties, its Firedog repair service [more...]

Date: 2009-01-16 17:31:00

Bring Back the Bull Moose!

Copyright Protected. All rights reserved. By Judah Benjamin, Guest Author OK, Folks, Some of us are former (?) Democrats, some of us are moderate (?) ... that both major parties are broken beyond all reasonable hope of repair and that Obama is a symptom [more...]

Date: 2008-11-10 02:06:21

Stellar Mystique and Violence

Link Scroll down for today's pictures & links. Stellar Mystique and Violence V838 Monocerotis (the Unicorn) ... ), followed by weird lulls. (image credit: PD-HUBBLE) The most interesting possibility is that V838 ... " (images credit: Alan Radecki) Alan gives a great account of this flight on this page [more...]

Date: 2008-12-28 06:19:50

Review of Lexington Law Firm

by John Cooper Lexington Law is headquartered out of Salt Lake City, Utah. They are a credit repair firm ... . Then Lexington will create a dispute letter on your behalf and send it to each credit bureau ... to the credit bureaus. When the bureaus receive your letter they will investigate the item. During [more...]

Date: 2009-01-15 00:15:45

Peak Credit & What That May Mean

A: Peak credit, sounds like I hit my limit on my credit cards! I guess its kind of true. For owners of home equity lines of credit, you may have noticed a decrease in your available credit line recently. Why is that? Because credit has peaked, and is now contracting! As banks work [more...]

Date: 2008-08-04 16:55:33

WWGCA: What Would God Complain About?

» More Boy Friends WWGCA: What Would God Complain About? 23 hours ago:   SUBTITLE:   The Analysis or (more likely) ANAL-ization of THE COMPLAINT   Posetd by: komplainer000» More Business Saving the pleather cow and other confessions 01/02/2009: Alright, already-- I took my butt to Franklin Covey and returned the planner that was Posetd by: [more...]

Date: 2009-01-16 17:19:40

Overcoming a Routine of Bounced Check Fees, Overdraft Fees, and Payday Loans

“Max” is a friend of mine ( ... and poor credit), he’s often riding the fine line of having enough money to make it through a month, even with some state assistance - and sometimes he falls short. Falling short when you have no credit [more...]

Date: 2008-09-25 20:00:14

What’s Wrong With A Little Socialism?

» More Big Business Spiffing Up Horton Plaza Park 12/29/2008: When my father took a job with the City as head of the water department, the family c Posetd by: xenubarb» More Bosses WWGCA: What Would God Complain About? 23 hours ago:   SUBTITLE:   The Analysis or (more likely) [more...]

Date: 2009-01-16 17:59:29

Credit Scams: Part 2 - Different Credit Repair Scams and False Claims

This is part two of two part guest post from Debt Lead, who has a debt consolidation website by Kimberly Credit Counseling.  If you’ve missed part one on credit reports, click here. The credit repair scam artists ... credit repair scams that are circulating newspapers, television, magazines and radio. Credit [more...]

Date: 2008-06-20 15:30:42

Repair Your Bad Credit Now

Crying on your bad credit record will not provide you the solution you need to make you qualified for the loans you need ... a look at their method of credit repair service. They know how to find clefts on your credit report ... , education or other purposes, your bad credit will make you have less chance to get the loan [more...]

Date: 2009-01-16 13:53:53

These Latin American Countries Will Thrive in 2009

HIDDEN VALUE Dear Value Seeker, It’s quiet out there today. Too quiet. There were no weekend bailouts or bankruptcies for Mr ... close to zero, the Fed is engaging more desperate tactics to repair the damage it inflicted [more...]

Date: 2008-12-15 20:06:21

Learn To Build and Manage Your Credit, While You’re Young

Everyone tells you that these are the best years of your life ... established credit. Bounced checks mess up your credit report, so use that check-writing feature wisely ... . But the rest of your life can be even better if you start building credit now and working [more...]

Date: 2008-08-16 03:56:51

Recognizing a Credit Repair Scam

by David Wada Companies target consumers with poor credit histories all the time, ... a credit repair offer, here’s 6 simple ways to tell if the company behind it is up to no good: * The company wants you to pay for credit repair services before they provide any services. Under the Credit [more...]

Date: 2009-01-16 04:06:09

Repair your credit at repairyourbadcredit.com

.fullpost{display:inline;}Having a credit or loan is a must now ... history bad, it will make them difficult to apply for other credit in the future and if they want ... . By having a credit or loan, we could fullfill what we want, such as; buying household needs [more...]

Date: 2009-01-15 23:49:00

Words from the (investment) wise 12.28.08

Investors spent the holiday-shortened Christmas week in an un-merry mood, digesting more gloomy economic data and taking stock of a tumultuous 2008 ... s exuberance), but also still be battling with the implications of the credit crisis for the global economy [more...]

Date: 2008-12-28 12:31:33

Black Friday: 15 Tips for Buying a Black Friday Notebook (or Not Buying One)

It’s that time of year again, when notebook buyers across the country start plotting how they’re going to score a cheap notebook on Black Friday, the day after Thanksgiving that kicks off the holiday shopping season. We’re going to start tracking the deals on our Black Friday Notebooks page, [more...]

Date: 2008-11-16 01:25:35

Misunderstanding Credit and Housing Crises: Blaming the CRA, GSEs

"It's telling that, amid all the recent recriminations, even lenders have not fingered CRA ... has been the meme that the entire housing and credit crisis traces to the the Community Reinvestment Act (CRA) of 1977. An alternative zombie myth is the credit crisis is due to Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. A 1999 [more...]

Date: 2008-10-02 11:00:00

Beyond CarFax: Tips for Buying Used Cars

I am a big supporter of buying used cars instead of new cars. Buying a used car will save you money not just on the price, but can also help in finding affordable car insurance options because used cars are typically less expensive to insure. Unfortunately [more...]

Date: 2008-09-19 18:38:59

Swindle

Wall Street is a criminal enterprise based on a confidence scam so it should be no surprise that the swindle continues unabated ... . That was the firm’s sixth troubled quarter since the credit crisis began. Merrill was among the most [more...]

Date: 2009-01-16 18:25:49

Mac OS X Security Update 2008-005 released

Security Update 2008-005 has been released for OS 10.5.4, as well as the Intel and PPC variants of 10.4.11. This update is not safe for AMD users. AMD users should use Zephyroth's AMD Software Updater to patch CPUIDs, or grab the fixed version ... . The recently reported ARDAgent and SecurityAgent issues are addressed by this update. Credit to Charles [more...]

Date: 2008-08-01 18:01:49

Conficker Worm

Conficker WormThreat Level: Conficker Worm is a worm that locks users out of system directories, and blocks your access to security websites and applications, such as Windows Automatic Update Service, Windows Security Center Service, Windows Defender Service (WinDefend) [more...]

Date: 2009-01-17 23:24:10

Office Max Apologizes, Actually Apologizes, For Snooty Manager []

The condescending store-manager, irked that your request for them to fulfill their contractual agreement has forced them away from a high-scoring ... replace or repair the item, or return your money. Max Choice furniture and any assembled furniture [more...]

Date: 2008-09-09 19:47:57

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