Check Credit.

In my opinion, owning credit cards are advantageous in these difficult economic times..but ONLY if you are a responsible and disciplined user ... or loan makers, there’s this site that can help you know your score. This credit report is based ... transaction that involves credit activities. At checkcredit.pro, you’d be able to request instant [more...]

Date: 2008-11-06 10:11:14

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Layaway Is Making A Comeback

The Wall Street Journal: Layaway, a payment practice that was made popular during the Great Depression but nearly became extinct due to the instant gratification of credit cards, is back in fashion thanks to the credit crunch. Only ... Warehouse Corp.; and Kmart, — report that demand for layaway is stronger than it has been in years [more...]

Date: 2008-10-28 14:07:56

FairSoftware: Instant Software Companies

... the details of sales, credit cards, tax reporting, and splitting the money can free you to focus [more...]

Date: 2008-09-30 18:00:00

Copy and paste: The enemy of the web?

As a police reporter at the Daytona Beach News-Journal, ... verbatim with no credit. When I made the transition to interactive journalism, copyright infringement ... frustration was brought back in an instant when I discovered, via Technorati, that someone [more...]

Date: 2008-12-05 21:33:30

Grand jury indicts Democratic legislator's son as hacker of Sarah Palin's e-mail account

Last month, as The Ticket reported here, someone hacked into the private e-mail account of Alaska Gov. Sarah[ ... and sign up for free automatic and instant alerts of every new Ticket item sped directly to your cell. Photo credit: Associated Press [more...]

Date: 2008-10-09 08:08:51

Blocking, Tackling & Running: Leveraging a Crisis Into Real Change

There's a fairly well known cartoon of two scientists working out a problem on a chalkboard covered with complex equations and down in the circle is a little circle with the key step inserted in small print - "and then a miracle occurs". Wouldn't it be nice if we could take the same short-cut to fixing the horrendous shopping list of significant [more...]

Date: 2009-01-16 20:07:11

Fantasy Basketball, Week 5

by Emry DowningHall After dropping a fantasy column on Wednesday of last week, I’m back on short rest with this week’s column ... in the stats, overall they do a fantastic job and it’s certainly worth checking out when evaluating ... that credit the number of fourth quarters sat as a positive statistic; Kobe Bryant owners stand [more...]

Date: 2008-12-02 13:33:34

Cut Costs On Your Restaurant Bill – Eat At Home

This is a guest post from Trisha Wagner, a freelance writer for DestroyDebt.com. Destroy Debt is a debt community featuring debt forums ... with staggering debt levels, unemployment and reaching the end of their credit limit. The restaurant ... my son to his favorite restaurant after receiving a good report from daycare. As we got in line [more...]

Date: 2009-01-06 11:00:02

SC Diocese Appears to Repudiates Catechism; SC Priest Is ‘Reined In,’ But Right (Update: Full Text of Letter)

BizzyBlog), I noted news that Fr. Newman, a Catholic priest and pastor at St. Mary’s Church in Greenville, South Carolina, had informed parishoners who voted for Barack Obama in full knowledge of the Illinois Senator’s aggressively proabortion positions that they “should not receive Holy Communion until and unless they are reconciled to God in the [more...]

Date: 2008-11-16 14:15:55

SAD NEWS

I just returned home from watching the debate (and having a beer afterwards) to discover an email from a pilot friend of mine ... pilot, has been moved from the emergency room into ICU, is conscious, and at last report does ... . We can also credit the world's best trauma treatment, because both of them got to top-flight medical [more...]

Date: 2008-10-08 06:43:25

South Korean opposition MPs ready to discuss reforms

South Korean opposition MPs who have paralysed parliament for weeks said on Monday they were ready to discuss bills needed to help the export-driven ... tax cuts, easing bank ownership regulations and a free trade deal with the United States. “ ... , but analysts said the outlook still depended on developments in global credit markets. The central bank [more...]

Date: 2009-01-05 06:48:39

Red Ink, Green Proposals, No White Smoke (Yet)

The chatter continues over California's $40 billion budget hole, as Democrats pitch some new economic stimulus ideas, all sides continue to meet in private, and the Republican faithful start ratcheting up the pressure on the issue of a tax increase. Talks continue today between legislative leaders and Governor Schwarzenegger [more...]

Date: 2009-01-14 20:42:50

How To Quickly Build a Big Subscriber List

This is about email subscribers, not RSS subscribers.  RSS is nice, but it will be awhile before it hits critical mass for most markets ... t know how to use RSS. The fact is, even if you are in a niche where your readership is savvy enough ... for free. (If I had to start all over, this is exactly how I would launch my business on the web [more...]

Date: 2009-01-14 20:33:40

Ticket Notice: Sunday shows -- McCain, Bayh, Ridge, Rubin

ABC This Week: Jack Welch, former CEO of General Electric; Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C./McCain supporter) and Rep. Rahm Emanuel (D-Ill ... of the Cook Political Report, Kelly O'Donnell of NBC News, and Chuck Todd, political director of NBC News. --Leslie Hoffecker Don't miss a single Ticket item. Get instant alerts via your cellphone [more...]

Date: 2008-10-25 19:00:05

Use Online Surveys To Build Customer Trust And Loyalty And Thrive During The Recession

The ongoing financial crisis and talk of recession has left a lot of Internet marketers worried about whether they will be able to stay in business ... . Social network marketing sites, email, instant messaging and Skype all offer the Internet marketer ... with products first is not a great way to raise your credit rating with your prospects. One good way [more...]

Date: 2008-11-19 17:54:53

Fair Weather Friends of the Market

It’s hardly a news flash that many people who are widely regarded as lions of the pro-market side have gone over to the dark side in recent months ... tremendous volatility, officials at the Fed and the Treasury began to act as if imminent disaster loomed ... have known better began to talk and to act as if the economy stood on the brink of complete [more...]

Date: 2008-12-25 22:46:08

Search Background Checks

by Ben Dave Background Checks are typically conducted discreetly. By that token, it is sneaky to some degree. How people view the use of background checks to obtain information about someone is a rather ... . Employers, credit officers, landlords, lawyers, business partners and even prospective in-laws [more...]

Date: 2009-01-08 14:49:50

Hamilton’s Counterfeit Capitalism

Daily Article by George F. Smith | As we await Bush’s replacement to straighten our wayward lives, it’s crucial to understand how we got here and why policy makers are so determined to do the wrong thing. Austrian economics explains why their policies are flawed, but no one with a voice seems to care [more...]

Date: 2009-01-15 21:36:00

YES WE DID! Save, that is

Members of "Generation Net" aka the "Millenials" are commonly characterized as having technological prowess, ... report saving at a greater percentage than the general adult population. The accompanying USA Today ... credit, special thought should be given to policies that will enable individuals, especially at lower [more...]

Date: 2008-12-16 05:39:00

Unsurprisingly, Illegal Deported for Armed Robbery Finds NYT in His Corner

-By Warner Todd Huston A criminal without legal status deported by US immigration officials is the subject of the latest pity party thrown by The New York Times. The Times seems to find it lamentable that this gang member and armed robber was deported from “his homeland” — that would be the USA — to Cambodia, the land of his birth ( [more...]

Date: 2008-12-05 14:37:04

Naivité RevealedJanuary 14, 2009

I am angry enough that I think my fingers will have cramps after about 2 minutes from the fast and furious typing I will do ... mistakes.Keywords: Free trial.You know, in the age of credit card fraud and identity theft, I always thought I was safe. Yes, I use my credit card to order books on amazon or sign up for netflix [more...]

Date: 2009-01-14 18:47:12

The Great Reinflation

Responding to growing concern about the quality of the Federal Reserve System’s assets, former Federal Reserve Governor Lyle Gramley told reporters last week that “You have to reckon with the fact that one of the Fed’s assets is gold certificates, which are priced, as I remember, at US$42 an ounce, and if we were to price them at market prices, [more...]

Date: 2009-01-07 16:53:47

Legislative panel finds Palin abused authority, ethics laws

An investigator for an Alaskan legislative panel issued a report Friday night saying that as governor, Sarah Palin, ... the influence of alcohol and Tasering his young son. The report is not a legal indictment; the panel has no power to prosecute. Members said they'd await a state Personnel Board report before considering [more...]

Date: 2008-10-11 02:52:53

Good Times For Resale In California

Reuters reports on California. “Home sales in the San Francisco Bay area rose nearly 39 percent in October from a year earlier and the median home price posted a record fall, a report on Thursday said. The median price paid for all homes ... in the prior month and 8.2 percent a year ago, according to MDA DataQuick.” “‘The dramatic, near free [more...]

Date: 2008-11-20 20:19:16

Big Changes In The Senate As The Parties Gear Up For Another GOP Drubbing In 2010

Yesterday we remarked how a Debbie Wasserman Schultz led cabal of conservative Democrats is already bad mouthing the prospects of the DCCC working to ... -- who can claim a lot of credit for helping elect quite a few Democrats ("more" if not the "better ... and equally unscrupulous House counterpart, Rahm Emanuel, claims a lot more credit for Democratic [more...]

Date: 2008-11-25 13:30:00

Pertinent Obituary, Dimon Says Worst Not Over, Oil Producers Struggle, The Next Bubble and More!

One company to summarize all of the last 10 years… now on its deathbed Credit crisis survivor predicts “worst… not yet behind us” Oil ... and now the epitome of the credit crisis: Nortel had $2.4 billion of cash in hand yesterday ... for most of 2009. In terms of our sector, we expect consumer loans and credit cards to continue [more...]

Date: 2009-01-15 19:40:53

Grieving Families Suffer Further as Identity Thieves Target the Recently Deceased

There is much to deal with after the passing of a family member, the last thing you think you would have to do is deal with credit applications ... was stolen and used to apply for AMEX and BestBuy among other credit cards. Identity theft accounted ... a stolen identity. Consumer advocates have argued long and hard that "instant credit" standards [more...]

Date: 2009-01-09 22:31:36

Theft and Rudeness

I realized on Christmas day that one of Curt's (hubby) presents never made it under the tree ... but I was able to report it as never received and received an instant credit.Then the day after ... relieved it only happened once since I had ordered quite a few things online. It was hard to find [more...]

Date: 2009-01-14 06:03:00

Blog Scams: Get Rich Quick and Work From Home Scams

In Flipping Blog Scams MMO Niche is Full of Jerks, Garry Conn takes on the scams associated with Make Money Online Niches (MMON) and reselling domain names and sites: It takes a lot to get me upset; however, when I witness people within the MMO niche that act like a bunch of middle school kids making fun of the ugly girl who dropped her books in [more...]

Date: 2008-10-07 00:31:30

Littlewood on Superannuation

I blogged on Monday my thoughts on the fiscal crisis, and talked about the stupidity of borrowing money now, as a means of saving for the future. Michael Littlewood has sent me a response to my post, which I’m delighted to publish. Michael is an expert on superannuation policy and is with the Retirement Policy and Research Centre of Auckland [more...]

Date: 2008-12-24 01:53:23

How to Tell Your Wife You Want To Be Really Spanked!

I’ve spent a lot of time reading everything I can find on F/M spanking relationships. I’ve read a lot of posts by men who are frustrated and don’t know how to tell their wife what it is that they want and crave. So, I decided to write a little F/M Spanking “Primer” from a wife to guys that a guy could copy, edit and print off [more...]

Date: 2009-01-16 00:15:32

Lending Club P2P: Review of New Post-SEC Changes, Free $25 Lender Bonus

Now that LendingClub has finished their SEC filing and is one of the only P2P lenders currently operating ( ... t be from the following 8 States: Idaho, Indiana, Iowa, Maine, Nebraska, North Carolina, North Dakota ... in the past 12 months, * no more than 10 inquiries on your credit report in the last 6 months [more...]

Date: 2008-12-14 14:30:58

FRIDAY JANUARY 16, 2009

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Date: 2009-01-16 14:29:00

Bank of Spain urges zero bank profit growth-paper

The Bank of Spain has urged Spanish banks to channel earnings into provisions against soaring bad debts and report near zero profit growth for 2008, ... profits ahead of an expected spike in 2009 defaults following the collapse of Spanish credit and consumer ... like Santander and BBVA. Credit Suisse expects non-performing loans to rise to over 7 percent [more...]

Date: 2009-01-09 04:53:21

Comment Spam Fighting Technique

Comment Spam when looked from slightly different perspective can be an indicator of your blog popularity! So I guess we all should rejoice when our SPAM queue filled with dozens of comments from spam-bots. Luckily that is easily killed by simply taking advantage of the options provided by Akismet [more...]

Date: 2008-12-18 12:40:31

The Day After

The Day After Posted by Will Collier on November 5, 2008 at 9:26 am On The Day After, Jonah Goldberg’s column, “Now Govern, ... ), would be an instant Waterloo for Hope and Change, at least in Congress. That kind of lunacy would never ... -prise, sur-prise, sur-prise). Bush’s action popped the oil price bubble, and it’s been in free-fall [more...]

Date: 2008-11-05 16:26:44

Gannett Pushes for More Tech Hires, Data Centers, Niche Sites

These are dark days for newspaper companies in the U.S. There are layoffs in print newsrooms, classified ad revenues are dwindling, and readership is shrinking. To combat these trends, Gannett introduced a bold initiative in 2006 to remake its 85 daily newspaper newsrooms into "Information Centers," [more...]

Date: 2008-10-10 17:05:13

COUNTING AMERICA’S 40,000,000 VOTES (Nov, 1936)

view additional pages COUNTING AMERICA’S 40,000,000 VOTES NEWS of the election of George Washington as first president of the United States was borne by stagecoach in 1789 throughout the country in about three weeks. Barring a close division of the 40,000,000 voters, the outcome of the current contest of .Franklin D. Roosevelt and Alfred M [more...]

Date: 2008-10-19 06:07:27

Bad Credit Used Car Loans - Advantages of Comparing Auto Loan Lenders

When buying a used car with bad credit, do not begin the car buying process without doing your homework ... , this will reflect on your credit report. In time, your score will rise, thus making it possible ... fresh start programs intended to help bad credit people rebuild credit. Instead of offering fair [more...]

Date: 2009-01-15 09:27:38

Unsurprisingly, Illegal Deported for Armed Robbery Finds NYT in His Corner

A criminal without legal status deported by US immigration officials is the subject of the latest pity party thrown by The New York Times. The Times seems to find it lamentable that this gang member and armed robber was deported from "his homeland" -- that would be the USA -- to Cambodia, the land of his birth ( [more...]

Date: 2008-12-03 12:16:18

5 Elementary School Lessons That Can Help You Today

Written on 10/14/2008 by Ali Hale. Ali runs Alpha Student, a blog packed with academic, ... Credit: striatic It's a funny thing about elementary school, many of the lessons learned ... ' seem to neglect every single day. If your current report card would have “could do better” [more...]

Date: 2008-10-14 10:41:29

Underwater with the Riverside Sheriff’s Department dive team

The Riverside County Sheriff Department’s Underwater Search and Recovery Team would like to remind the public that anyone close to the water should be wearing a personal flotation device (PFD). Additionally, caution should be taken when around bodies of water during this time of year [more...]

Date: 2009-01-04 06:53:05

Store Credit Cards: Not The Best Idea

If you shop at department stores or mall clothing stores, you likely know how the transaction will go ... on your purchase. But this discount is subject to credit approval. The merchant runs an instant credit ... an inquiry on your credit report. Credit inquires can kill your credit score. And applying [more...]

Date: 2009-01-07 18:58:51

Origin of Rhodes Scholarship, Defending Marconi, Rich Inventors (Apr, 1902)

THE AMERICAN SCHOLARSHIPS AT OXFORD. Probably no will made public in years has attracted so much attention as that of the late Cecil Rhodes. It is characteristic of the man that its provisions should be on such a vast scale as to affect the interests of three continents [more...]

Date: 2008-11-19 18:23:00

Monitoring your brand health - part one.

I have been wanting to tackle this idea again for a little while now, and recently a few thoughts have come together into this two-part blog post ... at the Washington Credit Union League annual convention in Spokane in 2007. Almost a year ago I addressed it again [more...]

Date: 2009-01-07 15:08:19

Host of Internet Spam Groups Is Cut Off

Host of Internet Spam Groups Is Cut Off The volume of junk e-mail sent worldwide dropped drastically today after a Web hosting firm identified by the computer security community as a major host of organizations allegedy engaged in spam activity was taken offline, according to security firms that monitor spam distribution online [more...]

Date: 2008-11-13 15:21:31

200+ Tools for Surviving the Economic Crisis

With Wall Street’s recent decline and the economy in such an uncertain place, many people are fearful of losing their jobs and lifelong investments ... in that it aggregates your different accounts from banks and credit cards, lets you budget and also [more...]

Date: 2008-10-16 22:24:58

Senseless

.fullpost{display:inline;}Everyday no one is spared by reports about children killed by preventable diseases, natural calamities, traffic accidents, ... (i.e. ZTE deal, overpriced rice imports, fertilizer scams, credit programs for the few) that takes [more...]

Date: 2009-01-12 23:29:00

Latest News in Credit Repair and Credit Score - Jan 07, 2009

Maligned Arizona defense strong against Falcons - Columbia Missourian 5 Jan 2009 at 11:42pm TEMPE, Ariz ... credit repair solutions. The new online based company http://www.180creditsolutions.com provides a fast ... Your credit report :: - Chicago Sun-Times 5 Jan 2009 at 1:12pm You’ve got a right to get a free copy [more...]

Date: 2009-01-07 17:39:55

DrumBeat: December 22, 2008

Pemex Oil Output Falls 6.5% to 2.711 Million Barrels a Day (Bloomberg) -- Petroleos Mexicanos, the state-owned oil company, said crude oil output fell 6.5 percent in November from the year-earlier period as production at its Cantarell field declined at a faster-than-expected rate. Production dropped to 2.711 million barrels a day, from 2 [more...]

Date: 2008-12-22 14:01:59

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