How I Got Bad Credit

July 31, 2009 | By Frances Lexington In Finance | by Frances LexingtonA few months, I went through some rough moments in my life. I got laid off after the company I worked for went down. The bills piled up and I was unable to make my monthly payments. Eventually, all of my credit card accounts were charged-off and sent to collection agencies.My life became a living hell of collection calls and non-stop harassment from debt collectors. [more...]

Date: 2009-07-31 23:37:24

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Why Bail? The Banks Have a Gun Pointed at Their Head and Are Threatening to Pull the Trigger

From Talking Points Memo: If you have a real story, you don’t have to make up phony stories. That’s pretty straightforward ... with so much bad debt that the banks can’t trust each other to repay loans. This creates a situation in which the system of payments breaks down. That would mean that we cannot use our ATMs or credit cards [more...]

Date: 2008-09-29 23:25:39

Lala Land

Blink and you may miss another government bail-out, loan guarantee, federal plan to alleviate a bad or unwise mortgage, a suggestion for more government funds for a more aggrieved constituency, or credit-card relief ... that there were no Americans who chose to rent until they could pay a suitable sum as a down payment, or bought [more...]

Date: 2008-12-16 00:47:41

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