Are You On The Credit Bureau's Blacklist?

By John Rasor your credit scores are not based on personal information like race, sex, or national origin ... report make up your credit score. Pretend for a moment that you are an underwriter working through ... , and deserve this loan, right? Could you be on the credit bureaus blacklist? Since [more...]

Date: 2008-12-22 16:07:07

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The Early Bird: December 2, 2008

It's Official: Recession Is Here The National Bureau of Economic Research's conclusion that the U.S ... housing crisis is far from over. The credit reporting agency TransUnion LLC reports that the percentage ... Monday. Of the key indicators measured by the bureau, manufacturing slowed, jobs were cut, and real [more...]

Date: 2008-12-02 15:15:28

Obama Still Plans Middle Class Tax Cuts

Despite sharp criticism from some Republicans, President-elect Barack Obama is still planning to provide economic assistance to the middle class via ... economy will contract through the first half of 2009. The National Bureau of Economic Research ... that is at the root of the credit crunch probably deepened, another report due on Dec. 30 may show. The [more...]

Date: 2008-12-31 17:28:20

Obama talks stimulus. He hopes you are listening

The spate of retailers reporting devastating December sales this morning provided a nice backdrop for President-elect Obama's speech in Virginia ... that lower interest rates aren't getting the job done because credit markets are screwy and that tax ... , the National Bureau of Economic Research and the Brookings Institution. He argued that fiscal [more...]

Date: 2009-01-08 18:11:11

U.S. Bleeding Jobs; Wall Street Doesn't Seem to Mind

On Friday, December 5, 2008 the U.S. Department of Labor reported a sharp loss of 533,000 jobs in the month of November ... to the National Bureau of Economic Research, today's recession began at December 2007. Friday's report ... that reverberated through credit markets has now debilitated the able-bodied worker. Indeed, labor [more...]

Date: 2008-12-09 12:56:06

Recession Started In December 2007

I reported on this in January and now we have official confirmation ... , stagnant wages and hundreds of thousands of lost jobs. But the nonpartisan National Bureau of Economic ... now for America’s economy? Personally, with the news of a possible $2 trillion pull back on credit [more...]

Date: 2008-12-02 01:05:15

Tuesday morning -- and we're in a recession

As Sacramento Bee reporter Dale Kasler noted in his lead paragraph this morning: "No kidding" to the news yesterday from the National Bureau of Economic Research that the country's ... that Henry Paulson and company don't know why credit markets have frozen. Is it because the banks [more...]

Date: 2008-12-02 13:54:33

FTC Delay Does Not Apply to Employers

Yesterday, the FTC announced a 6 month delay in enforcing their “Red Flags” Identity Theft Guidelines ... ve been in touch with the FTC and we now know that this delay only pertains to Financial ... from National Consumer Reporting Agencies (primarily credit bureaus) when conducting background checks [more...]

Date: 2008-10-23 16:11:42

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