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Commercial developers lining up at the bailout window

Good Monday morning - I don't know how many people are reading out there, given the fact we're now squarely in the holiday season ... the market for car loans, student loans and credit-card debt. This money is intended to go directly to help ... Analytics LCC, $530 billion of commercial mortgages will be coming due for refinancing in the next three [more...]

Date: 2008-12-22 13:14:00

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Paulson Says Focus Of Bailout Is Expanding

Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson said today that he was changing the focus of the $ 700 billion bailout passed last month from buying up troubled ... in such areas as credit card debt, auto loans and student loans. Mr. Paulson said 40 percent of the nation’s consumer credit was provided through selling securities that are backed by pools of auto loan [more...]

Date: 2008-11-12 17:14:08

paying tuition to life

Have you ever loaned money to a friend or family member? Did you really loan it or was it borrow? ... student he ran up credit cards, drove a a fancy car, and took out student loans, etc. He was a ROTC ... my parents weren’t helping me, but had preached no consumer debt. Plus I had student loans. Anyway [more...]

Date: 2008-10-21 13:00:30

In The News Today

"During times of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act" – Orwell Dear CIGAs, I am Outraged. This is simply too much ... to be funded under the programme are pools of credit card receivables, automobile loans and student loans ... for the first time under a landmark $200bn programme intended to support consumer credit. The [more...]

Date: 2008-12-22 17:17:41

Financial Clarity: The First Step to Eliminating Debt

We hear about it all the time on the news, the economy is in a downturn, a slump, a recession, a depression. Job lost is at an all time high ... credit card debt, student loans, car loans, and the money you borrowed from Uncle Charlie last year ... . People are losing their homes. People are scared. Just writing about it makes me feel scared. Oh [more...]

Date: 2009-01-08 02:07:51

Wall Street Breakfast: Must-Know News

New acronym on the block... The government unveiled its newest initiative, called TALF, or Term Asset-Backed Securities Loan Facility. The $200B facility will support consumer finance, including student, auto and credit card loans ... $20B of credit protection from TARP funds. This is the first time the Fed and Treasury have stepped [more...]

Date: 2008-11-26 12:14:47

Taxpayer Advocate’s Recommendation: Go Easier on Taxpayers Experiencing Economic Hardship

Nina Olson, the National Taxpayer Advocate, has released her Annual Report to Congress (PDF) ... their car loans, credit card balances, student loans, or medical bills probably do not realize ... -payment installment agreements, may be more effective at collecting liabilities from taxpayers [more...]

Date: 2009-01-08 02:37:42

Higher Ed, Banks and Credit Card Companies

Great commentary from Kevin Carey, which I've linked to just below, along with the NY Times article (below the fold) which spawned the story ... brochure inside encouraging students to apply for a credit card - often their first. This troubling practice has resulted in students completing college with credit card debt - often on top of student loans [more...]

Date: 2009-01-01 21:19:00

Does Paulson Have Any Idea How to Spend Our $700 Billion?

Does anyone else get the funny feeling that we’re going to discover very soon that the $700 billion has been spent and no one is quite sure what it ... Express, now that it has been characterized as a bank, as well as into the credit card, auto loan and student loan industries. Of course there was that purchase of another stake in AIG [more...]

Date: 2008-11-13 21:43:44

The next meltdown?

So what is the next meltdown? This article in MSN suggets it’s credit cards. Definitely a possibility ... , but how are people affording credit cards, student loans, and car loans? Much like foreclosures ... . First, the average debt of consumers is $16k when averaged over people who don’t have credit cards, pay [more...]

Date: 2008-11-06 17:42:46

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Date: 2009-09-12 03:08:49

A Plan to Be Debt Free in 2009

Considering the current state of the economy, it’s likely a smart thing to try and rid yourself of any excess debt right now ... out your latest credit card statements, auto loan statements, student loan statements, etc ... high interest debt. Mine comes in the form of an auto loan. What about you? Do you have plans [more...]

Date: 2009-01-05 16:10:27

Using Guaranteed Student Loans To Pay For College

by Trinity Foster If you would like to go to college and find it too expensive, there are a lot of different options available ... loans. These loans are even available to individuals that have bad credit because the government backs ... . Government guaranteed student loans can help you to get started the right way and are fantastic [more...]

Date: 2009-01-10 00:00:42

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

Credit Refinancing

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Date: 2008-07-22 17:57:36

Wall Street bailout plan to include more than bad mortgage debt: Feds to absorb unpaid bar bets, inadvertently laundered postage stamps, unredeemed soda cans and insufficient tooth-fairy disbursements

Totally absurd? Think twice: In the dark of night over the weekend when most people were snoozing, the Treasury dramatically expanded its bailout plan to include buying student loans, car loans, credit card debt and any other “troubled” assets held by banks. The changes, which were included [more...]

Date: 2008-09-23 06:05:06

Ctrl BG: A Shortcut to Financial News 11/29

Hope everyone is having a great Thanksgiving weekend and got some great bargains yesterday! ... facility to support consumer finance, including student, auto, and credit card loans and loans backed ... prices also dropped a whooping 17.4% from a year ago, a record decline. Along with this bad economic [more...]

Date: 2008-11-29 14:40:00

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Date: 2008-10-06 12:45:25

Take Control of Your Finances Part 6: Get Out of Debt

Debt is like indentured servitude. You work and earn income, but you hand over that income to someone else ... as well. Good debt versus bad debt One comment you may hear is that mortgages and student loans are “good debt” while credit cards and car loans are “bad debt.” The philosophy here is that houses [more...]

Date: 2008-11-21 17:52:35

Top Financial Mistakes Made by College Students

by katie George 1. Blowing your school loan money Instead of using your financial aid for books, tuition, room &amp; board, ... . 2. Credit Card Debt Even responsible adults can rack up some hefty credit card debt, but students ... , have no business getting multiple credit cards. This is a recipe for credit disaster, because now students [more...]

Date: 2009-01-01 22:21:38

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Googling for the topic of this post can have you looking through subscription and pay sites all day - but we managed to find an actual free list of ... $53.68 bad credit equity loan $53.38 abdominal mesothelioma $52.99 cash settlement $52.98 student loan ... school loan consolidation $76.54 college loan consolidation $74.93 car insurance quotes $74.78 aut [more...]

Date: 2009-01-06 13:12:02

What is the trick to establishing good credit through using credit cards?

using credit cards ltmac85 asked: Just starting off trying to develope credit to buy a house in the near future, already have a payed off car ... : credit score repair, credit turned down, student loans, high risk lenders Share and Enjoy: Digg ... . So there is no sence in getting a new one to establish credit. Therfore im going to try [more...]

Date: 2009-01-17 21:17:00

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

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Date: 2009-09-17 08:10:01

more bad news

more bad news The law firm that successfully helped me defend myself last year has gotten their own civil judgment against me for the money I owe ... . Except for three relatively small bills and my student loans, my credit is amazingly clean ... like my car payment and insurance (it's not enough). Or, I find a way to buck up and file a chapter [more...]

Date: 2008-12-26 16:19:07

Financial Forecast for 2009, Considering Resource Limitations

In this post, I consider some major issues contributing to our current financial problems, before making a financial forecast for 2009. These are 1 ... from the bottom: Layer 1. Household Debt (Mortgages, auto loans, credit card debt, student loans [more...]

Date: 2009-01-06 15:10:32

Should You Pay Your Credit Card Bill Late? The Answer May Surprise You

One of our readers, Jay, sent us this question about debt negotiation: My wife and I earn $145,000 per year combined but have over $600, ... in student loans, over $8000 in 401(k) loans, over $18,000 in car loans, and over $93,000 in credit ... -interest credit card that will soon be paid off, our interest rates are pretty manageable. After [more...]

Date: 2008-12-09 21:00:39

Should You Pay Your Credit Card Bill Late? The Answer May Surprise You

Date: 2008-12-09 15:49:26

Holiday Cheer: Reality is Not All It's Cracked Up to Be

I am currently on blog holiday, and am re-posting some refreshing concoctions from Christmases past.Life. It's deep, right? ... surrounding (i.e. Shaolin), that credit card debt and those student loans aren't mundane, they suddenly ... told, cash ruling everything around me. These geniuses accomplish the impossible: they make Staten [more...]

Date: 2008-12-29 16:00:00

Consolidating Student Loans

With higher education costs on the rise, many people these days have several student loans ... will go up and even get better as you pay off that loan. It will not be an instantaneous fix as credit companies can take up to six months to report a drop of a loan off your report. But if you don’t use your credit [more...]

Date: 2009-01-16 12:54:49

That First Taste of Financial Success

wendy3 About a month after I hit bottom in terms of my debt, I sent in a large payment on one of my credit cards, ... off the rest of my credit cards, to pay off our car loans, to pay off my remaining student loans ... s been tasty all the way along. A lot of people like to criticize Dave Ramsey and his “Total Money Makeover [more...]

Date: 2008-10-21 14:00:52

Cross-Talk: Deleveraging the Consumer and the New Realities of a Pay-As-You-Go World

Margie and I were flipping through channels and happened to stop on financial guru Suze Orman making the case that we're now living in a pay-as-you-go society. Her point was that credit of all sorts--from credit cards to student, mortgage, and car loans--was going to be more difficult to come by and thus more expensive. In a world [more...]

Date: 2008-10-21 12:00:28

"US Banksters Flip Flop On Bailout Rationale"

... expansion of the program into the markets that provide support for credit card debt, auto loans and student loans.Paulson said 40 percent of U.S. consumer credit is provided through selling securities [more...]

Date: 2008-11-12 23:52:00

Acronyms to watch for: Roubini supports Hillary's HOLC, not RTC/RFC solutions to financial crisis

Here’s a litmus test for whatever Congress comes up with as they huddle with the finance boiz over the weekend: HOLC good, RTC/RFC bad ... , credit cards, auto loans and student loans) while their assets (values of their homes and stocks [more...]

Date: 2008-09-20 19:22:53

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Date: 2009-01-06 17:51:27

Fed Throws Fresh Lifeline to Financial System

By Mark Felsenthal WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Federal Reserve threw a massive life-line to consumers on Tuesday with two new programs aimed at ... launched a $200 billion facility to support consumer finance, including student, auto, and credit ... making it easier for them to obtain loans for homes, cars and on credit cards. Under the new [more...]

Date: 2008-11-25 13:32:14

Who Wins, Who Loses Under Proposed Bailout Plan?

WASHINGTON — The proposal to bail out U.S. financial markets to the tune of up to $700 billion creates a lot of potential short-term winners, ... winners, too, if the bailout works as intended: anyone soon trying to borrow money _ for cars, student loans, even to open new credit card accounts. Top executives at troubled financial institutions [more...]

Date: 2008-09-28 23:35:52

Paulson Flails About With His TARP

Yesterday, Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson announced that the Treasury Department has altered the way in which it is going to ... non-bank institutions that securitize credit card, auto and student loans.” As Matthew Yglesias ... most effective thing we can do to help homeowners, the American people, and stimulate our economy.” [more...]

Date: 2008-11-13 21:30:53

Ask an Apocalypse Specialist

Dear Dr. Farley,Should I be preparing a boat or a car? ... . For obvious reasons we cannot accept credit cards. However, student loans are available to qualified ... the former; horses can swim, and in a pinch can be eaten.Dear Dr. Farley,Is cannibalism really as bad [more...]

Date: 2008-10-01 08:47:00

Death of the original TARP program

#fullpost{display:inline;}Sort of old news by now but for those who may not have heard, ... companies that issue credit cards, make student loans and finance car purchases. As envisioned ... billion to expand the existing bailout of American International Group, the insurance conglomerate [more...]

Date: 2008-11-13 16:30:00

More Issues With Ramsey

I'm going to see Dave Ramsey soon. My biggest beef with Dave Ramsey is his position on student loans, ... %, no exceptions, no credit card rule. It's just ridiculous for me. I get that Amex collectors were ... a dispute on over 1K in foreign hotel charges. I was overcharged about 20%, just sent a letter, easy [more...]

Date: 2009-01-17 15:40:33

How to Understand Credit Report

How to Understand Credit Report posted on January 8th, 2009 Now that you have obtained your credit report, ... the company name is a description of the type of account (such as student loans, credit card or line ... the first thing you need to do is read through it and understand what it all means. Don’t feel bad [more...]

Date: 2009-01-08 08:35:23

Prepping Kids (Part 4)

Essential Money Skill #6: Credit is NOT disposable income. Yup, I know it flies in the face of everything everyone else has been saying, but credit is NOT disposable income. Student loans should not be used to go pub-crawling. Credit cards aren’t an “ [more...]

Date: 2009-01-08 13:30:42

Travel Tips

Someone pointed out a budget travel article to me sometime last year, but I didn’t care much for it, so I’m not going to link it here ... a month’s rent late. I diligently paid down my credit cards, paid my student loans on time, and banked [more...]

Date: 2008-06-26 13:28:45

Bailout Bandwagon Full…Please Catch Another

The bailout soup line is getting longer and longer. Heck, it is around the block ... billion the government set aside for car, student loans, and credit-card debt. We got ... “Pork” is Really Going to Cost Us! Mmmmm Pork. No not the kind you may find...The Fed: A Bad Game [more...]

Date: 2008-12-23 17:24:58

Is Vacation Ownership Immune from the Credit Crisis Cold?

I wrote this article for ARDA’s Development’s magazine in the summer of 2008. Unlike auto loans, mortgages and other consumer credit, the performance of Timeshare receivables ... to autos to student loan debt. Lenders are bracing for bad news in the timeshare industry as well [more...]

Date: 2009-01-15 16:07:27

Savings Update for the New Year

I set up my savings snowball in August, right after I paid off my credit card debt ... and sent it to my student loans. I’m done buying textbooks - potentially forever. So the textbook ... $400 $495 Done! Student Loan Interest $1,500 $584 All extra $$ Getting Established $2,000 $100 $50 [more...]

Date: 2009-01-12 22:24:57

Better Solutions For North Dakota’s Tuition Problem

North Dakota Americans for Prosperity Director Dustin Gawrylow has some better suggestions ( ... of his suggestions: *Increase the grace period for student loans. Currently, each graduate has six months ... loans. *Create a higher education tax credit. In an age when education costs were paid [more...]

Date: 2008-07-26 15:55:23

My Thoughts on Debt

I received a comment the other day about choosing to go into debt again. It was prompted because I discussed the possibility of a car loan ... the credit card companies for our debt…I can’t. They didn’t make me use their cards. I did that. I swiped ... loans than I had to. So I don’t regret all of the student loans I took out. For mortgage debt, given [more...]

Date: 2008-12-21 05:44:10

Above the fold

A DAILY round-up of economic news: Lots of news out there today. The Commerce Department has revised America's third-quarter GDP number down ... , in an attempt to increase other kinds of consumer lending, including student loans and car loans ... for retailers. The Federal Reserve announced two new facilities designed to boost consumer credit [more...]

Date: 2008-11-25 14:41:57

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