What Can You Buy With 50 Billion Zimbabwe Dollars?

The inflationary horror of creating excess money and credit is well known, and is superbly illustrated by Zimbabwe, ... s government go far, far beyond mere monetary ones, making a bad situation much, much worse. I bring ... what always happens when a government creates too much money and credit, which is that the currency [more...]

Date: 2009-01-16 17:21:37

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Finding County Marriage Licenses

by Jason Voxly Maybe you are dating someone and think they are hiding something ... the system. You do have to be careful and check into the companies before giving them your credit card ... with a legit company. It is a rare situation that you will receive bad information [more...]

Date: 2009-01-17 22:43:42

The Effect Of Credit Card

The Effect Of Credit Card by Mike Carbeck If you’re looking to get a credit card, be sure to go over the terms with a fine-toothed comb ... . If you don’t understand how credit cards work and how all of the interest adds up, you’re in danger ... so that you can secure a loan later on. If you do not have a credit history, lenders will look at you as a high [more...]

Date: 2009-01-18 09:17:16

I’ll Take My Chipotle App To Go, Thanks

My favorite burrito restaurant, Chiptole, launched a free mobile ordering app earlier this week ... for pickup and pay for their order with a credit card. (Just like their online ordering system, which ... ? The theories in my head started flowing like a bad Oliver Stone movie- Could [more...]

Date: 2009-01-17 13:00:09

The Endgame

The Endgame by John Mauldin January 17, 2009 • Employment Numbers Are Worse Than Posted • Aye, Captain, I’m Giving Her All I’ve Got! • Problem #1: Deflation • Problem #2: Pushing on a String • The Muddle Through Middle • Conversations With John Deflation? Stimulus? Deleveraging? Recession? A soft depression? A return to a bull market? [more...]

Date: 2009-01-18 02:04:12

"Bride Wars" Girls Matchup: Kate Hudson vs Anne Hathaway

"Bride Wars" Girls Matchup: Kate Hudson vs Anne HathawayFriday, January 16th, 2009 while eating a Bastardly Mercado Certified lunch Photo Credit: ... & wasn't too impressed, to say the least. Bad dialog & unnecessarily long sums it up fairly well. I'm ... to reviews that range from bad to terrible. The Kate Hudson and Anne Hathaway film, also produced by [more...]

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

Solutions For Refinancing With Bankruptcy

Even if you have filed for chapter 7 or chapter 13 bankruptcy, you still have the option to refinance using the equity in your house as collateral, ... , but you will likely pay above prime for your home equity loan. Bankruptcy is not the end of your credit ... and many lending institutions will accept your business, even with your poor credit history [more...]

Date: 2009-01-18 09:01:02

Madonna’s in ‘love therapy’, Kabbalah-style

The British tabloids began reporting that Madonna is in “therapy”, and now the American press has picked up the story ... , as if she would ever think “dominating” a man would be a bad thing. Reports in a British paper ... the Waverly Inn on 1/10/09. Credit: Bauergriffin (header [more...]

Date: 2009-01-17 12:51:14

Should the Supreme Court Grant Cert in Rambus (Revisited, and Cross-Posted at Patently-O)

[Rutgers Professor Michael Carrier recently posted as a guest at Patently-O arguing in favor of the FTC’s position in Rambus and the Supreme Court granting certiorari.  I thought Professor Crouch might be interested in sharing with his readers a different perspective on the merits of the FTC’s petition for cert in Rambus sketched out in my [more...]

Date: 2009-01-16 17:07:57

Sending Money To Australia Is Quick, Effective And Affordable – Today’s Options And What Might Work Best For You

September 30, 2009 | By Deb Snyder In Online Business | by Deb SnyderSo youre one of many people needing to send money to Australia and youre stuck trying to figure out the best way to get it there. By doing a little homework you can ensure you save yourself some money while your money promptly at the correct location. [more...]

Date: 2009-09-30 20:33:01

5 Million Frequent Flyer Challenge: Update #1

Greetings, friends. Today I have an update on the Frequent Flyer Challenge, coming to you live from the Hong Kong airport: First, a good news / bad news personal update. The Bad News – After flying 19 hours, I slept ... of redemptions I use, but as mentioned, you don’t need to apply for 13 credit cards to benefit from the mileage [more...]

Date: 2009-01-17 14:49:14

A talk with Battlestar Galactica director Michael Nankin

By Todd VanDerWerff Most of Battlestar Galactica director Michael Nankin’s previous experience in television directing came on domestic or workplace dramas like Life Goes On and Picket Fences. So perhaps he wasn’t the most obvious choice to make the leap to the sweeping space battles of the gritty sci-fi show ( [more...]

Date: 2009-01-16 21:37:21

Video-o-rama (Jan 16, 2009)

Video-o-rama: Gloomy news batters investor sentiment Risk appetite around the globe deteriorated over the past few days as an avalanche of negative economic and corporate news battered already fragile investor sentiment. A few of the more interesting video clips that attracted my attention are shared below [more...]

Date: 2009-01-16 19:15:06

Keanu Reeves Confirmed As Spike Spiegel In Cowboy Bebop

So the inevitable has happened, as we mentioned previously, ... Minami, will fill the role of production consultant. If this does go bad, Reeves can’t take all the credit. Erwin Stoff (The Day the Earth Stood Still, Street Kings, A Scanner Darkly, Constantine)–AKA [more...]

Date: 2009-01-16 19:01:46

Devils show no mercy on struggling Islanders

During the pregame, the Islanders honored both Doug Weight and Bill Guerin for milestone accomplishments. Weight for his 1000th point (only the eighth US-born player to accomplish that feat), and Guerin for his 400th career goal. Three hours later, that was still the highlight of the evening for Islander fans [more...]

Date: 2009-01-18 02:38:50

A Year of Cool Comic Book Moments - Day 16

Here is the latest cool comic book moment in our year-long look at one cool comic book moment a day (in no particular order whatsoever)! ... the deluxe treatment. I know Stern wrote the book, so I suppose I should be giving him credit ... just so much that I tend to lean towards giving Miller the lion’s share of the credit here. The story [more...]

Date: 2009-01-17 05:59:11

Conoco Phillips’ $34 billion writedown makes me bullish

I read about ConocoPhillips taking a massive $34 billion writedown and my first reaction was glee.  Why?  Not because I hate big oil. Rather, this type of draconian response demonstrates that the glut of oil we now see will soon be a deficit. I see a buying opportunity [more...]

Date: 2009-01-17 02:57:17

Financial Relief

There are many conditions that require us to have extra money ... tempting, because the requirements are simple and the funding process is very fast. Even if we have bad credit history, which remains capable of obtaining the loan, which is guaranteed to be ou next [more...]

Date: 2009-01-18 07:55:31

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18Jan09“As the Arabs see the Jews”,His Majesty King Abdullah,The American Magazine,November, 1947 By mindspring Categories: Palestine  http://www.kinghussein.gov.jo/kabd_eng.html I am especially delighted to address an American audience, for the tragic problem of Palestine will never be solved without American understanding, [more...]

Date: 2009-01-18 02:38:54

Landlords: Don’t Get Axed By Your Tenants

A couple of weeks ago, newspapers in my part of the world were buzzing with the news of a local landlord who had allegedly been attacked ... with first-degree assault.  When you read the chilling details, you’ll see just how bad this could [more...]

Date: 2009-01-17 00:56:54

Obama Considering Government-Run "Bad Bank"

Obama Team Weighs Government Bank to Ease Crisis Reuters | The incoming Obama administration is considering ways of using government capital to acquire bad assets and unclog the financial system, people familiar with the Obama team's ... Paulson and FDIC Chairman Sheila Bair said on Friday a government bank to round up bad assets [more...]

Date: 2009-01-18 03:28:45

California Estimated Taxes New Split Information

Just as a heads up for those of us living in the state of California.  This may or may not apply for you.  For those of you making estimated payments for Fiduaciaries, the formula will no longer be 25% of your estimated tax liability each quarter.  It is changing to 30%-30%-20%-20% as stated below from the 2009 Form 541 instructions: [more...]

Date: 2009-01-18 05:05:20

Trends in Business Credit Cards for 2009

Small business credit card trends The year 2008 was a rotten one for the banking business. What began as a “mortgage crisis” mushroomed into a full-blown, across-the-board “credit crisis.” This has led to banks pulling back on all types of credit, but an even greater pullback [more...]

Date: 2009-01-17 22:38:54

DrumBeat: January 17, 2009

Recession drills deep into oil and gas: Industry in crisis Job cuts have been the dominant theme in British business over the past three months ... in the North Sea in recent years and provide a much-needed windfall for Wendel. The firm saw its credit [more...]

Date: 2009-01-17 14:50:47

Free Time Proven Hints - Business Loans

Try to remember: depending on your past track record getting an online small business loan can be next to impossible ... with just one Bad Credit Secured Loan. If you are suffering of a bad credit history bad credit secured loan is a smart solution for you. With a bad credit history you tend to become quite a prey [more...]

Date: 2009-01-18 07:40:36

Nigerian Email Scammer takes $150,000.00 from Canadian Man

These kinds of stories will break your heart ... $55,000 from an uncle in Mexico and his parents gave him $60,000 on credit to cover fees ... out, but it doesn’t. It’s a very bad feeling. I had lots of friends.” Read the full story on the Windsor Star [more...]

Date: 2009-01-18 08:01:10

Highlights and Lowlights of Citigroup’s Earnings Call

Citigroup announced a radical change in its business model, hiving off around $850 billion of troubled assets into a “bad bank” called Citi Holdings that also ... . What does this Citi Holdings do? Citi Holdings would include consumer mortgages, private-label, credit [more...]

Date: 2009-01-16 17:20:39

Democrats Offer Up Version of Tax Bill

Remember when I said that it was going to be a long January? I wasn’t kidding ... a whopping $275 billion in tax breaks. Half of the breaks will go to a new tax credit for working families. The credit, as previously blogged, would be taken out of payroll taxes and would [more...]

Date: 2009-01-18 01:18:08

Nothing Down, Nothing Forever

The Missoulian reports from Montana. “Craig Siphers had a notion that the run on real estate in the Bitterroot Valley might be slowing during the summer of 2006. But the longtime real estate agent with Hamilton’s Exit Realty couldn’t have predicted then just how far it would fall [more...]

Date: 2009-01-17 19:20:23

Words from the (investment) wise for the week that was (January 12 – 18, 2009)

Investor sentiment around the globe was negatively impacted during 2009’s second full week of trading as a barrage of bleak economic and corporate ... to multi-year lows amid growing concerns that they will battle to cope with increasing credit losses [more...]

Date: 2009-01-18 08:31:29

Weekly Round-Up

I know it’s been awhile since we’ve done a round-up at MYC and I’m sorry about that guys! ... up. - No Debt Plan reminds us that we should be checking our credit reports again. Remember, you get one report from each of the credit bureaus free each [more...]

Date: 2009-01-18 06:14:20

Good, Bad and Ugly: Penn State

FINAL SCORE: Penn State: 65  Indiana: 55 THE GOOD: After a couple of woeful games, ... all season. Too bad it wasn’t close enough at the end for this to make a difference. IU also ... hard, hitting two threes late to try and keep it close. Credit the guys for not giving [more...]

Date: 2009-01-18 01:34:31

Malkin finds flag desecration; ignores it when convenient

Michelle Malkin, and her commenters, are complaining that Obama supporters have desecrated the flag ... themselves in the flag? Or flag napkins? Or a car painted as a flag? Flying a flag in the rain ... job on a car would qualify as “easily soiled.” As for displaying the flag, let’s not forget [more...]

Date: 2009-01-18 05:04:24

Using Online Paid Surveys To Counteract Unsecured Debt Consolidation Loans & Bad Credit Personal Loans

No matter which way we look at it we are living in a bad credit personal loans as we see that there is an increased focus on unsecured debt consolidation loans and debt consolidation bad credit as people all over are trying make ends meet ... consolidation bad credit as we look to make our lives into the kind of lives that we desire [more...]

Date: 2009-01-18 07:40:06

1,000 Words: The Many Faces of George W. Bush

1,000 Words: The Many Faces of George W. BushAP Photo/Gerald HerbertPresident George W. Bush's time in the White House is ending but we'll always have his wide variety of facial expressions to remember him by.This series of photos, taken during Bush's final press conference on Monday, [more...]

Date: 2009-01-16 23:00:00

Two Interactions With Amazon

One When I had one day’s notice that Hillary Clinton was going to release her schedule from the time she was first lady, ... on my credit card (got a new card in the mail the day before, gave that expiration and hadn’t called [more...]

Date: 2009-01-18 03:24:20

How to Get an Urgent Cash Loan?

We cannot deny the fact that almost all of our needs are requiring the money to be fully accomplished ... so it will be more efficient as well. And those who have the bad credit history tied behind are also having [more...]

Date: 2009-01-18 02:33:39

How to fix your image on Web

How to fix your image on Web 18 Jan, 2009, 0821 hrs IST,ANI WASHINGTON: ... such an impact, an expert has given tips on how to avoid and repair comments that could tarnish ... of such rejection. Safeguarding your online reputation is "as important as your credit score nowadays. Every [more...]

Date: 2009-01-18 08:34:00

Cabbie Takes iPod for Fare

0109applepod.jpg Ever since cabs introduced credit card machines it's been nothing but trouble ... :After the driver took her to JFK airport to catch her flight home, she tried to pay using her credit card. She had been using her credit card to pay for all her taxi cab rides. This time the card [more...]

Date: 2009-01-17 21:29:13

Anglo fiasco is Ireland’s Enron

Anglo Irish Bank is Ireland’s Enron, and those responsible for destroying shareholders’ assets should be pursued accordingly ... . This column pointed out time and again that this explosion of credit could only have its balance [more...]

Date: 2009-01-18 03:45:11

My Day at the ClickerExpo: Friday

I've just finished day 2 of the ClickerExpo and it is impossible to relate everything I've learned or the amazingness of the experience. The information is fantastic - but more than that - the sense of renewed excitement, motivation, and anticipation is almost more than I can take! [more...]

Date: 2009-01-18 05:03:46

Why O.C. housing is so risky, bottoms in 2010

Economists at mortgage insurance PMI Group recently ranked Orange County as the 9th riskiest housing market among that nation’s 50 largest housing ... Bernardino unemployment rate is 9.1% up 3 full percentage points. That’s why it’s so bad. That’ [more...]

Date: 2009-01-17 08:02:17

Notes from the International School Recruitment Fair Trenches

Oof. It’s Sunday afternoon. Since returning from a skipping-rock of a flight home from Koh Samui, Thailand - departed 6 a.m ... s a random and sleepy-eyed report of lessons learned from the experience. 1. Bad interviews are good [more...]

Date: 2009-01-18 07:08:37

What’s rocking Barc?

BARC down 24.85 per cent. RBS down 13.03 per cent. - On an afternoon when the market is up, and the next nearest faller is Lloyds, down 5 per cent. A flurry of rumours abound. Talk that Barc won't be included in the putative UK government bad bank scheme; talk of monoline exposure; and talk of the impact from the downgrades on credit card [more...]

Date: 2009-01-16 16:45:05

Why They Fight

One of the remarkable aspects of the current conflict in Gaza is the contrast between the way the fighting is viewed by the people of Israel and the ... support and cancelling export credit guarantees. These are not all appealing options, nor should [more...]

Date: 2009-01-16 17:05:47

Bank of Clark County seized, given to FDIC

Lots of government people in suits showed up after the Bank of Clark County closed for business this evening. It’s not good ... that the Bank of Clark County had lost money on construction and development loans, but not how bad [more...]

Date: 2009-01-17 06:13:55

Reality TV Listings: January 17, 2009

Solitary 3.0 premieres tonight on FOX Reality Channel! ... ET/PT Top Chef - Bravo TV Bad Girls Club - Oxygen 3PM - 430PM ET/PT Rob & Big- MTV2 3PM ... about your favorite show! Photo Credit: FOX ShareThis Related posts:Reality TV Listings: January [more...]

Date: 2009-01-17 14:16:54

Streaking Siena routs Fairfield

BRIDGEPORT, Conn. – Siena’s 78-62 victory over Fairfield on Saturday came at the end of the craziest stretch of the season. Siena now has played nine games in 21 days in seven different cities. The Saints won eight of the nine games, with the only loss coming at Kansas [more...]

Date: 2009-01-18 00:37:15

An Open Letter to Coach Curry

An Open Letter to Coach Curry January 18th, 2009 Written by: Steve DiLullo Alright, I was hoping it wouldn’t come to this but I see no other choice ... - is mindboggling! This whole Rip / A.I. telenovela (due credit to DBB commenters here - great title, guys [more...]

Date: 2009-01-18 07:11:57

'Aggregator Bank' Talk begins

A: Here we go! Im off to upstate NY for MLK weekend, so I hope everyone has a enjoyable and safe 3-day weekend! ... assets, floating the idea of a “bad bank.” An RTC like vehicle was one of my 2009 predictions under [more...]

Date: 2009-01-16 17:11:07

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