"Mysterious credit card charge may have hit millions of users"

Hmm, I guess I need to check out our credit card statements: Take a look at your credit card statements, and if the charge is there, don't let it slide. It's what the thieves want you to do. Instead, file a dispute with your credit ... Center, and the Bureau of Justice Assistance. Federal law enforcement officials tend to react [more...]

Date: 2009-01-15 07:13:05

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FreeCreditReport.com scam

I was looking over my checking account transactions for the past year and saw a mysterious $12 ... credit report program. Under a new Federal law, you have the right to receive a free copy of your credit report once every 12 months from each of the three nationwide consumer reporting companies [more...]

Date: 2009-01-01 02:16:00

Beware of Background Screening Checks

Employee background screening is an unregulated industry with easy money and not a huge emphasis on compliance or on hiring quality people to do the screening. The federal Fair Credit Reporting Act covers background screeners, but it hasn't ... possible accuracy." It also requires employers to give a copy of background reports to rejected [more...]

Date: 2008-06-03 17:50:00

Headline News - January 9, 2009

Digital Money Forum: Paying for innovation Credit Slips: Cramdown Commentary Heartland Payment Systems and transmodus Launch Check Management System ... at 2009 National Retail Federation Annual Convention American Banker: A Mobile Plan B: Bypass Carriers [more...]

Date: 2009-01-09 13:04:18

Volt Still Kicking as Feds Take $5B GMAC Stake

With a new $6 billion bailout from the Treasury approved late yesterday, General Motors has lowered its requirements for auto loans ... loans to customers with a credit rating of 621 or above, down from yesterday’s minimum score of 700 ... use progress on the Volt as leverage in negotiations for federal aid. So, bailout? Check. Cash [more...]

Date: 2008-12-30 21:00:12

Government Spending Spree

by The Mogambo Guru If you want to know the Real, Real Reason (RRR) ... Federal Reserve, created all the money and credit that financed the stock market boom, the bond ... a government check of some kind as their income every month (Social Security, welfare, etc [more...]

Date: 2008-10-07 20:26:04

Fed to Lend to Fannie & Freddie

All of our weekend guests finally clear out, we clean up the barbecue remnants. I get a few seconds to sit down to the computer to check email, and THIS is what greets me: &gt ... be at the primary credit rate and collateralized by U.S. government and federal agency securities [more...]

Date: 2008-07-14 02:16:25

Did America Get Punk’d on the Bailout?

Did America Get Punk’d on the Bailout? Posted by James O'Rourke on December 18, 2008 By David Sirota, Campaign for America’s Future ... , the major claims about a credit crisis that justified Congress cutting a trillion-dollar blank check ... false. For instance, take a look at line 1 and line 5 of this December Federal Reserve report on bank [more...]

Date: 2008-12-18 16:01:10

The Monetary Base Finally Moves

The Federal Reserve has for a long time eschewed increasing the money supply directly, and instead has manipulated credit to affect the economy and control inflation. This has led ... grown at a very slow, or non existent rate. From David Merkel: Check out the very far left side [more...]

Date: 2008-09-30 21:05:16

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