Interesting Reads 26 Sep 2009

Here is a video of Buffet praising a Chinese suit company I found this week. I thought this was pretty interesting because it looks like Buffet doesn’t wear any other suits these days, so their suits must be really good or at least really good value for money. On to some other great posts this week: Savings Account Rates: The Latest on High Returns @ The Digerati Life Credit Monitoring Services check your credit report @ The Smarter Wallet Understanding Marginal Tax Rates @ M is [more...]

Date: 2009-09-26 14:05:47

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Understanding Corporate Credit

by Mary Bush One of the most common misconceptions relating to corporate credit is that it works just like personal credit ... credit rating and score. So paying your bills on time and not having a high balance on available sources ... . Do you know what is on your business credit report? At least once a year you should be examining it very [more...]

Date: 2009-01-04 09:38:22

Understanding Corporate Credit

by Mary Bush One of the most common misconceptions relating to corporate credit is that it works just like personal credit ... credit rating and score. So paying your bills on time and not having a high balance on available sources ... . Do you know what is on your business credit report? At least once a year you should be examining it very [more...]

Date: 2009-01-03 22:23:56

New regulation and the GAO

rdan GAO has a report on regulation deficiencies of financial markets: ... participants—such as nonbank mortgage lenders, hedge funds, and credit rating agencies—some of which ... difficulty understanding new and increasingly complex retail mortgage and credit products. • Fourth [more...]

Date: 2009-01-15 10:00:01

A-Z real estate vocabulary for home buyers and sellers

Nothing is more fundamental to buying or selling your home than understanding the language that realtors, lenders and others in the industry use ... , origination fee, hazard and mortgage insurance, credit report and appraisal fee. Debt-to-Income ... inspection. Annual Percentage Rate (APR) - The cost of credit expressed as a yearly rate. Bridge Loan [more...]

Date: 2008-12-02 21:05:42

A Bailout For The Big 3

Another currency rally….  Bank of Canada cuts 75 BPS!…  A Santa rally?… What Asia thinks… And Now… Today’s Pfennig! ... the dollar in check, folks… The Bank of Canada (BOC) did cut rates yesterday 75 BPS… You may recall ... t understand the mentality here with these Central Bank rate cuts… It’s not the cost of the credit that’ [more...]

Date: 2008-12-10 13:55:26

Credit Score Rating Scale

by William Blake It is important to improve or protect your credit scores ... . If your scores are below 450 it will be almost impossible for you to obtain any type of loan or credit ... system that is used to determine a persons credit scores. But it is helpful to try to understand [more...]

Date: 2009-01-06 14:23:22

Arghhh

The expert on my teevee says he doesn’t understand why the market is still so up and down. Why am I so much smarter than the man on my teevee? ... Oversight Committee, the credit rating agencies are being portrayed as profit-hungry institutions that would give any deal their blessing for the right price. Case in point: this instant message exchange [more...]

Date: 2008-10-23 12:14:36

Shocked, Shocked by Financial Breakdown

"I still don't understand what happened." (flickr)  A congressional hearing on federal regulators’ role in the financial crisis began with a ... in how he monitored Wall Street from 1987-2006. “A very solid edifice broke down,” Greenspan told ... -comings of the credit rating agencies. While those hearings often featured disgraced financial [more...]

Date: 2008-10-24 00:04:21

EconomPics of the Week (1-16-09)

Going GlobalHelp Jake Understand: Is it Possible that a Country Will Leave the Eurozone?The Irish Dr. Doom... or Just an Exaggerating Economist? ... , Commodity MarketsOil Tankers are a Banks Best FriendCreditLoose Credit and AutosAuto Bubble BreakdownReceipts Down, Outlays Up = Soaring DeficitFixed Mortgage Rates at Less than 4.5% [more...]

Date: 2009-01-16 22:44:00

Understanding Credit Score Ratings

By William Blake The credit score rating scale is a confusing numeric system to understand ... on your credit report. Also having a lot of outstanding debt with large balances and/or high rates ... That You Need Credit counseling is readily available free of charge to any who desire to better [more...]

Date: 2009-01-05 14:21:43

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