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“You don’t realize how much a shop relies on its senior technicians until you become one ... and quick to pass on credit for his skills to the senior technicians that trained him over his career ... -botch technician from Dallas, TX A member of what I dubbed the “Oklahoma Crew” at last year’ [more...]
Date: 2008-12-22 15:41:31
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Can You Survive on One Income?
People are losing their jobs left, right and centre. I’ve been overwhelmed with the letters from people who have recently been pounced on by the Unemployment Monster. And even people who still have a job have watched pieces of their income evaporate through pay-cuts or cuts in hours worked. Corporate North America is cutting back and Joanna Average is feeling the bite. [more...]
Date: 2009-09-28 09:45:34
Car Repair and Cashback Cards - Big Spender Edition
“Hey man, just put it on your credit card…” That’s the best answer the Honda service manager could give me as I attempted to negotiate with him to cover the repair costs for the air conditioner compressor failure on our Honda CRV. Honda ... they were paying for the replacement parts but I told him that the $600 repair was still a lot of money [more...]
Date: 2008-09-08 04:01:03
The Best and Worst of the Credit Card Industry
The newest Consumer Report is in and their agenda was the dozen or so cards that consumers should be seeking out, and the several to stay away from ... sure it’s a card you can use! 1.) Capital One No Hassle Cash Rewards 2.) Chase Freedom Visa ... are as follows: 1.) Chase PerfectCard MasterCard ( I believe this is a business credit card…I don’ [more...]
Date: 2008-12-08 06:38:50
A Good Disaster
New Year's eve, as I was in the basement doing my daily exercises on the Wii Fit we got for Christmas, I caught a whiff of that tell-tale smell; Ozone. Something electrical or electronic was burning.Then things would start going out intermittently; the TV, file and web servers, then the lights, Then the furnace went out. The brand new furnace [more...]
Date: 2009-01-02 13:16:00
How to Find the Right Mortgage
by katie George A mortgage that is properly suited to an individual’s needs when buying a home can save the individual thousands while a mortgage ... be considerably more or less by the end of the mortgage. Individuals who have no or bad credit ... one is the right one. First one needs to understand the different options available to them. For people [more...]
Date: 2009-01-07 00:31:19
Deal with Credit Before Divorce
by Rob Kosberg When you are about to file for divorce, you know that this is a horrible experience no matter how much you want to do it ... . Legal advice may help with this. Finances should be worked out, if at all possible, before the divorce is completed. Credit reports for each partner need to be secured, examined and fixed [more...]
Date: 2009-01-17 22:06:48
Fannie and Freddie to Announce Mass Loan Modification Program
re-default. This may also further erode investor confidence in residential mortgage backed securities, ... monies to put towards housing payments. Step 3) Start Improving Your Credit Rating This can take a long ... you pay your bills on time, that you have good credit. Paying your bills on time only accounts for 30 [more...]
Date: 2008-11-11 19:02:07
T3leads Review - A Unique Affiliate Network with Big Money Claims
New affiliate networks seem to pop up everyday and it can be quite a chore determining which ones are actually worthwhile ... lucrative niches online. Categories in the system include credit cards, auto insurance, payday loans, debt relief, home improvement, home loans, debt settlement, and credit repair. There are public [more...]
Date: 2008-08-20 22:21:15
Off Label Use of HGH to Treat Tendon and Ligament Injuries Remains Illegal
Dr. Richard Rydze is a vocal advocate of the use of recombinant human growth hormone (rHGH) for the treatment of tendon and ligament injuries. Dr ... with performance-enhancing drugs and the legal restrictions on legitimate medical research by anti ... had purchased $150,000 worth of HGH and anabolic steroids from Signature Pharmacy with his credit card [more...]
Date: 2009-01-17 08:33:55
Intelligent Research...Do your due diligence
Sam walked into my office plopped himself into a chair, stretches, yawns with a smile. He slouches. He forced himself to give me one of those limp handshakes. It gave me the willies. I was meeting with him as a favor to a friend. “Hi”“How do you do. It’s nice to meet you.” I said with a strained smile. “Same [more...]
Date: 2007-04-25 01:22:00
Предсказания Кюнстлера на 2009 - США, Нефть, Геополитика, Путин
Спонсор месяца - #1 RX pharmacy affiliate program!Сайт дня (как попасть) - http://www.business-magazine.ru/There are two realities "out there" now competing for verification among those who think about national affairs and make things happen. The dominant one (let's call it the Status Quo) [more...]
Date: 2009-01-01 07:59:00
Reaction To Obama’s Biden Vice President Pick: Solid, Masterful Or Uninspired Mistake?
Reaction to Democratic party likely Presidential nominee Sen. Barack Obama’s decision to pick Sen. Joe Biden as his Vice Presidential running mate continues to pour in. As expected, reaction is predictable along party lines but although partisans on both sides have surprisingly good and bad things to say about the choice. [ [more...]
Date: 2008-08-24 04:04:22
Simplify Your Life With A Credit Repair
by Dina Salinas For most people, having bad credit would be like the end of the world. People rely on credit for even the simplest transactions in this modern world. If you have bad credit, then simplify your life with a credit repair that is within reach. Creditors know you’re having problems, by the way you use your credit. They use your credit score to see how many times you’ve applied for new credit, to see how you pay your existing credit, etc. [more...]
Date: 2009-09-27 18:21:28
Reconsider That For Sale Sign On Your SUV
This Thanksgiving holiday gave most of us something else to be thankful for - lower gas prices ... of an accident, as are many new brand new cars when compared to an older model. Bad Time for Financing ... . It may also be difficult to find any financing if your credit score is not top-notch due [more...]
Date: 2008-11-30 18:08:38
Credit Repair After Bankruptcy
by Matt Douglas If you have a bankruptcy on your credit report you probably feel like there is no way to escape a low score ... is accurate. Often people are concerned with the legality of credit repair, and you should ... when they investigate a dispute, thus the listing will not be verified. The Fair Credit Reporting Act says [more...]
Date: 2008-12-26 10:12:42
When Frugality Isn’t Enough
The following guest post is from Trent Hamm of The Simple Dollar. I’ve been a fan of Frugal Dad for quite a while ... high school (drug use, mostly) that left him with a poor local reputation, a poor credit history ... - the power company doesn’t tolerate him being late even a day on his bill because of his poor credit [more...]
Date: 2008-09-16 11:00:37
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
How to Dispute Credit After Bankruptcy
by Derrick A. Clayton Bankruptcy can be very harmful to your credit file, but there is a way to fix your credit report and increase your score ... the bankruptcy will be listed as either a “Charge-off” or “BK Liq Reo” on your credit report. The actual ... it was written by a human being. Look closely on your credit report for any mistake the person made [more...]
Date: 2008-11-26 13:38:13
Text offered for Obama speech on economy
Following is the text of the speech President-elect Barack Obama made about the nation's economy Thursday:Thank you so much ... break from a troubled past and set a new course for our nation. This is one of those years.We start ... it's too late to change course, but it will be if we don't take dramatic action as soon as possible [more...]
Date: 2009-01-09 11:43:00
Stimulus Package 2009: Lightning Round Reactions
The Democrats in the House of Representatives introduced legislation this week containing $825 billion in new tax credits and government spending, ... cuts for clean, renewable energy including a new enhanced tax credit for research and development ... extension of the production tax credit for wind, hydro, geothermal, and bioenergy. Ditto. Go to hell [more...]
Date: 2009-01-16 15:30:30
Forecast for 2009
Introduction There are two realities "out there" now competing for verification among those who think about national affairs and make things happen. The dominant one (let's call it the Status Quo) is that our problems of finance and economy will self-correct and allow the project of a "consumer" economy to resume in "growth" mode [more...]
Date: 2008-12-29 03:33:57
Myths and Truths of the Bush Presidency
As President Bush’s eight years in office come to an end, let us examine his record. Obviously, the mainstream media, filled with hatred for the president, cannot be trusted to give an accurate assessment of his two terms as president. Bush counselor Ed Gillespie details the myths and facts of the Bush presidency at Real Clear Politics [more...]
Date: 2008-12-29 02:25:00
Latest News in Credit History and Jobs - Dec 19, 2008
Toyota Motor Corp. - Chicago Tribune 12 Dec 2008 at 6:24am LONDON (AP) ? World stock markets plunged Friday as the U.S. Senate’s rejection of a $14 billion deal to rescue Detroit’s ailing automakers stoked concerns that the recession in the world’s largest economy will be even longer and deeper than… A … KHOU jobs - KHOU 8 Dec 2008 at 4: [more...]
Date: 2008-12-19 09:43:20
Bill Clinton Campaigning for Obama in Orlando Today
NOTE FROM PAM: I added some video clips below the fold. Former President Bill Clinton spoke at a Obama for President rally in Orlando, Florida today ... who are not at this rally. We have to elect a president who will rebuild the American dream, repair a badly ... , incomes declining, heathcare costs of doubled, college costs up 75 percent -- credit card [more...]
Date: 2008-10-02 01:31:07
Strike 3
I missed Siren's burlesque class last week, due to being sick. I emailed LeAnne (the owner) a couple of time and she replied, the next day, that it would be no problem to start with week 2. Yesterday morning, I double-checked the SirenDance schedule - and happily discovered that my Burlesque class was at 9:15, not 8:45 (as I had thought) [more...]
Date: 2009-01-16 02:12:47
A Lightning Bolt Struck a Housing Bubble...
...and created financial dinosaurs. Who believed this would happen? Me, for one, and Peter Schiff. (However, if Schiff envisioned a time frame for the collapse, I had no clue about such a steep slide happening so quickly. However, by the time that I received the news that my hours were to be cut, I was not surprised at all.) [more...]
Date: 2009-01-04 02:32:01
Reading POSt: Case study on a sales culture
Reading POSt: Case study on a sales culture Cash generation largely through accelerated but informed selling is the name of the current game (of course, companies may opt for cost-savings but that's another matter all together) so the story ... many a depositor from entering a branch (NAVPU, debit/credit, GRT, etc.) Think of the potential [more...]
Date: 2009-01-17 04:54:31
PFBlogger Spotlight: Green Panda Treehouse
What color is US currency? It’s green. What’s one of the most content creatures on the planet? Well, one of them is a panda ... of it. I got a credit card in college and like many of my friends, I charged on it like crazy ... some of my friends (who would return the favor and use their credit card next time). I also thought [more...]
Date: 2008-08-07 16:28:03
Advice To Pres. Obama (#2): Yes We Can, But Will We?
The below post/letter is very important to me, and brings together much of what I have worked on the past few years ... particular issue runs the risk of creating more long term harm than good. In this letter, I attempt ... . In this letter, I would like to explain what some of these things are. In addition [more...]
Date: 2009-01-15 16:49:43
Red Wings 6, Blackhawks 4
PREGAME Grettings from cold but sunny Pittsburgh. Hopefully you're feeling OK this morning. We took it a lot easier than in years past. Its nice waking up not burping up everything you drank the night before. -It's still hard for us to believe we were in Buffalo a year ago [more...]
Date: 2009-01-01 17:29:00
How Can I Participate In Online Marketing As Someone From Nigeria.?
I want to be involve in online marketing i.e using credit cards or even wire transfer. I dont know how to get going with the stuff. Related posts:Fixing Bad Credit There are credit repair companies out there that are legitimate....Addressing A Negative Credit Score Are you considering getting in touch with a credit repair...Do You Make Related posts: Fixing Bad Credit There are credit repair companies out there that are legitimate.... [more...]
Date: 2009-09-29 02:56:26
Five Questions About the Stimulus
Now that a group of economists, including well-known Marxists Martin Feldstein and Larry Lindsey, have recommended that the stimulus package reach in the neighborhood of $1 trillion (with a "t") dollars, a few questions come to mind: Who will run it? Conceivably, the stimulus "package" could actually be a series of discrete pieces, [more...]
Date: 2008-12-17 18:41:49
Don’t Be Taken By Debt Consolidation or Credit Counseling Scams
Your credit cards are maxed out. Your mortgage is spiraling out of control. You have fallen behind on your car payments ... is that there is no “magical solution” to credit repair. Even those companies which decide to report negative ... your debt by 50% and they will fix your credit overnight. You call them, looking [more...]
Date: 2008-12-18 23:25:22
People Get Ready
In the twilight of the Bush days, in the twilight of the twilight season, a consensus has formed that we are headed into a long, dark passage leading we know not where. Even CNBC's Lawrence Kudlow has been reduced to searching for stray "mustard seeds" of hope on hands and knees in a bleak and tortured financial landscape [more...]
Date: 2008-12-08 13:40:28
I'm Joe the Plumber (Part II) "It's the socialism, stupid!"
Here's a new ad from the McCain campaign: And here's my story. You see, I really am Joe the Plumber, too... Hi, my name is Doug the welder ... business, and Joe isn’t quite there yet, the “dream” or goal of independence and self-reliance continues. Having started our small business with my wife during the recession of the late Eighties/early [more...]
Date: 2008-10-23 13:50:50
FICTION - BIONIC BOYFRIEND - AMOR PRIMO
"Last call for flight 714 with non stop service to Las Vegas," the voice of the effeminate flight attendant crackled over the sound system. With a sigh Twenty-one year old Justus Montgomery lifted his satchel and laptop case, swinging them both over his shoulder. "Well," he swallowed hard. "I guess this is it [more...]
Date: 2009-01-17 06:48:50
Obama’s Deficit, Fed’s Forecast, India’s Market, Gold’s Victory, and More!
by Addison Wiggin & Ian Mathias Obama’s fiscal “change”… trillion-dollar deficits “for years to come” Fed says economy to shrink in all of ’09, unemployment to rise until 2010 Second wave of real estate tsunami swells… office and mall vacancy rates surge Indian market crushed in ’08, [more...]
Date: 2009-01-07 19:10:08
Ex-Best Buy Employee Regrets Selling Warranties Now That He's A Customer [Best Buy]
We just got an email from reader Mike, who claims to be a former Best Buy employee who regrets selling all those extended warranties now that he's ... defended the company online from people who had complaints and offered advice on what to do, based ... with the Geek Squad employee about it, he determined it would need to be shipped off to the repair faci [more...]
Date: 2008-09-15 17:29:16
Chicago builders ignore codes, ruin families and city powerful does nothing
A story of 78 stop work orders ignored by clout-laden city developers . . . and how it has ruined an innocent family's investment and well-being ... of unchallenged political power. Laws, regs, building codes -- all ignored due to political corruption ... be lost to foreclosure. Everything we have worked for during our 43 years of marriage is lost, our cr [more...]
Date: 2008-06-20 16:21:05
PEBO to Make Dire Forecast of World Without Stimulus; Also Will Push More Regulation
"I don’t believe it’s too late to change course, but it will be if we don’t take dramatic action as soon as possible," ... and leads to even less credit. "That is why we need to act boldly and act now to reverse these cycles ... in our future. That’s why we need to re-start the flow of credit and restore the rules of the road [more...]
Date: 2009-01-08 11:06:09
Googel Developers Day US - Testing Distributed Systems
Click here to view the embedded video. Attention! API Garbage (might be unreadable): Google test checkout 10 yes this is a testing history systems with Ajax XML lessons learned from Google check out hundred hundreds and they ll be presenting out today with Mario Mentor from the checkout team and nosedive in your so mutable love to do everything [more...]
Date: 2008-12-21 12:49:52
How to Find a Good Auto Mechanic
When it comes to finding a good mechanic, I’ve always relied on the recommendations of others ... of repair shops. While dealerships will be full of mechanics that specialize in your particular make ... more than a new battery, we usually go elsewhere. Finally, we have independent repair shops [more...]
Date: 2008-08-21 13:19:15
Weekend Assignment #246: Surprise!
For this weekend's Assignment, Karen said: It's been a mindboggling year in many ways, and not all of it has been good news ... that was a pleasant surprise for you personally. Extra Credit: Are you looking forward to the new year ... !) Closer to home, though, we haven't had it all that bad. Tall Paul and I are both still gainfully [more...]
Date: 2008-12-16 14:00:29
China Stimulates, $34Bln Alt-A Securities Downgraded
A: With China stimulating their economy and the globe right now, we have to wonder if this is more economic Cialis? What happens after the 36 hours are up? This is $586Bln less that is available to buy up our treasuries as we issue massive supply to fund our own rescue. As I said before, this is not a subprime problem [more...]
Date: 2008-11-10 14:39:25
Full Text: Barack Obama on Economy | Economic Recovery and Reinvestment | January 8, 2009
(Source: Office of the President-Elect) Throughout America’s history, ... from a troubled past, and set a new course for our nation. This is one of those years. We start 2009 ... ’t believe it’s too late to change course, but it will be if we don’t take dramatic action as soon [more...]
Date: 2009-01-08 18:00:11
Guest Post: Obama Plan Is Bold, but Not Bold Enough
As details emerge about the incoming Obama administration’s stimulus plans, Peter Boone and Simon Johnson argue that proposals should be even bolder. Boone is chairman of Effective Intervention, a U.K.-based charity, and a research associate at the Centre for Economic Performance, London School of Economics, [more...]
Date: 2009-01-07 09:09:48
Finance House Enhancements With A Home Improvement Loan
by Ada Denis Making home improvements can sometimes be really expensive but some improvements or repairs are unavoidable and if the necessary cash ... to do: provide financing for making home improvements. But, before rushing in to apply for a loan it is wise ... is not available you need to resort to some source of finance. For these situations, the loan [more...]
Date: 2008-12-08 08:58:20
A Borrowing from malaysia-today to depict economic picture
which Putraja windows have no access into:( THIS IS THE FIRST TIME I'M ALSO PICKING UP THE COMMENTS accompanying this post at Raja Petra's cyber abode because it's right and proper you get feedback from the man-in-the-street to reflect a situation where Desi feels the BN leaders -- especially the Finance Ministry idiots! [more...]
Date: 2008-12-10 00:35:00
I Have a Dream
Obama's Hopeful Economic Speech copyright ? 2009 Betsy L. Angert. BeThink.org I have a dream. I dream of a day when Americans will separate themselves from a difficult past. I dream of a time when partisan politics will not divide us. In my dream, I see a nation united; one in which Black children, white, Brown, yellow, [more...]
Date: 2009-01-09 00:55:47
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