Happy New Year Facebook - your employees think you’re lying about advertising. And they may have a point

A gremlin inside Facebook - or more likely a disgruntled employee - briefly hacked Facebook in the last few hours ... and business, then why do I get shown ads for Credit Rating Reports, as I did today? On thing’ ... get you a 2:1″ and Bad credit? Get a credit card with 39.9% APR!’. Classy.” The thing is, social [more...]

Date: 2009-01-05 11:59:10

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Ten steps to take before buying a home

I found this entry from back in March, 2005. It’s useful information, especially now as we enter the fall market ... more down at losing, depending on the type of mortgage you end up getting.) 5. Get your credit in order. Obtain a copy of your credit report. (Definitely do this - do it online if you want it done, fast [more...]

Date: 2008-08-26 19:00:25

Debt

This isn’t a new years thing, just a … “fuck, I need to get a handle on this” thing. And I’ve been working on this for a while anyway ... . (Theoretically, I could try to get my credit line increased and pay off with everything with that, but … I’m not convinced that getting MORE credit is the solution to my problems.) Anyway, because I’ [more...]

Date: 2009-01-16 18:26:57

When the Phillies are champs, who has time to put on pants?

Combine the photo above with this video of a similarly-clad gentleman celebrating the win and Philly's tourism bureau has their campaign set for at least the next 10 years. UPDATE: For awhile there, I was wondering what the duct tape was for. Only now do I realize that it's there to prevent him from getting depantsed. Give credit where credit [more...]

Date: 2008-10-31 17:35:36

In Defense of Friction

When automobile manufacturers struggle to squeeze as many miles per gallon as possible out of their car designs, ... can be seen as a continuation of the revolution in efficiency begun by money. Credit, for example ... . It was possible to get the land now, with credit, and pay for it over time, in part with the proceeds [more...]

Date: 2009-01-14 19:18:18

Consumer 101: Get Your Free Credit Report From "Annual Credit Report.com" [Annual Credit Report]

You've probably seen those commercials featuring a friendly looking jackass and his factually inaccurate songs about what can happen to you if you don't check your credit report. It's true, checking your credit report is a good idea ... been fooled by other sites. They want to sell you a trial subscription to some credit monitoring service [more...]

Date: 2008-09-25 17:07:30

Debate Analysis: Objective Indicators Suggest Education, Prevention, Pro-Choice Values Win

The Culture War is over. By every objective, measurable analysis, from CNN's dial tests, to MSNBC's focus group in Kansas City, ... independent sources, that Obama supports infanticide. To McCain's credit he made the strongest possible ... get credit for saving his campaign, but their messages seemed to flop in objective analysis [more...]

Date: 2008-10-16 20:21:45

How Can Lawsuit Funding May Help To Avoid A Bad Credit

Many lawsuit plaintiffs have financial troubles while they wait for a settlement problem that could make more low their credit level . Credit reports are piled up by firms named credit bureaus that get reports directly from lenders about their customers paying practices. Founded on a debtors history of paying bills and the amount of debt the man has , credit bureaus go with a credit score for each man . [more...]

Date: 2009-09-30 13:20:28

President Bush: more concerned about getting results than getting credit

After eight years of nothing but nasty, antagonistic coverage, ... now that he’s in his last days in office. Today we learn how committed President Bush was to helping ... . This particular accomplishment is unsung because the media refused to report on it. The media refused [more...]

Date: 2009-01-17 01:29:50

All the time, I get requests from readers asking me for recommendations of financial products ... account? What credit card should I get? Where should I get my insurance from? What kind of software ... in the world. I’ve never held a credit card with a lot of banks. I’ve only had accounts with a few [more...]

Date: 2008-09-09 20:00:17

Is It Better To Have A Mastercard?

by Will Smith In these current times despite a poor credit history it is still feasible for someone to get a credit card from the mass that ... unfortunate people with a poor credit score can see straight away which credit card companies will issue ... currently flood the market. The primary two credit card suppliers normally best to approach first [more...]

Date: 2009-01-16 18:28:18

Obamunists Help Themselves to Credit Card Numbers

Next time you get a credit card statement, make sure to check for generous contributions to Obama you may have made in your sleep. From North Kansas City: Steve and Rachel Larman say a strange credit card charge appeared ... the Obama campaign any help from their pocketbook. They said they notified Chase, their credit card [more...]

Date: 2008-10-15 14:02:35

Do You Want to Know How to Get Out of Debt Fast?

This is a question that millions of people across the United States want an answer to everyday ... is to stop accumulating more debt. Most debt is in the form of credit cards so it’s time to get rid ... up all your bills and credit card statements for one month; you’ll also need your check book register [more...]

Date: 2009-01-17 00:24:25

Roulette

Roulette Save up to 50% on Roulette. Search over 15,000 sites with one click. Your source for everything under the sun! http://FindStuff.com 100% Free Credit Report Get Your Free Credit Report from the 3 Major Bureaus delivered instantly www.Banks.com Play 100s of casino games online at BetUS Casino . [more...]

Date: 2009-09-28 19:56:54

Mark Your Calenders - Credit and Bankruptcy Lunch and Learn

Copyright RealCentralVA.com, LLC. If you are not reading this at RealCentralVA.com the site you see is likely stealing content ... ? · How much will bankruptcy cost? · How do I get credit after bankruptcy? · How do I improve my credit score? · Can I buy a house after I filed bankruptcy? View Larger Map Limited Seating [more...]

Date: 2009-01-08 14:00:01

Recognizing a Credit Repair Scam

by David Wada Everyday, companies target consumers who have poor credit histories with promises to clean up their credit report so they can get a ... . The truth is, these companies cant deliver an improved credit report for you using the tactics they promote. Its illegal: No one can remove accurate negative information from your credit report. So [more...]

Date: 2009-01-16 06:24:58

Identify Credit Repair Scam in 6 Ways!!

by David Wada Everyday, companies target consumers who have poor credit histories with promises to clean up their credit report so they can get a ... . The truth is, these companies cant deliver an improved credit report for you using the tactics they promote. Its illegal: No one can remove accurate negative information from your credit report. So [more...]

Date: 2009-01-16 06:23:45

"McCain Is The Real Health-Care Reformer"

According to the Wall Street Journal,"It's good politics for Mr. Obama. But it's bad policy. Mr. McCain's proposal -- to give every American the tax credit businesses get for buying health ... who get their health insurance at work has been shrinking. In August, the Census Bureau reported [more...]

Date: 2008-10-07 23:21:07

Guide to Avoiding Bankruptcy

by Chris BlanchetWhen it comes to the reasons to avoid bankruptcy, you are likely aware of the many pitfalls. You probably know that bankruptcy might seem like a fast and easy solution at first glance, since it offers to clear all debt off your plate and put an end to those sleepless nights and harassing telephone calls. So, even though bankruptcy offers some apparent benefits in the extremely short-term, longer-term goals like obtaining credit or getting a new job must often be forfeited as well. [more...]

Date: 2009-06-10 10:49:25

Forgiven Debt Isn't Really Forgiven At All

By Kate Luther If you've been struggling with the rest of the economy, chances are you've been forced to rethink your financial priorities. And as a result, credit cards are often the first thing to go. The good news is that once you get behind, many credit card companies will offer to "settle" your account, some for as much as just 40% of your original balance. And if you're looking at a large chunk of credit card debt, making it go away for 40% of its value sounds like a pretty good deal. [more...]

Date: 2009-09-22 13:00:09

Getting A No Credit Check Personal Loan

by Jimi Morrison There are dozens of people who take advantage of the opportunity to apply for personal loans such as payday loans. These are also called cash advances. To obtain one of these loans, someone can look at businesses found in their town or there are places which approve online. However, it is good to look for reputable businesses because there are many predatory lenders. In order to find one of these businesses, search under loans and payday loans either in your telephone book or internet. [more...]

Date: 2009-10-01 16:56:11

Looking for Info About Credit Cards - Check Out this Publication

I don’t know who you are, but I bet you’ve heard at least once in your lifetime of the convenience and effectiveness of credit cards and how they are easy to get. They are advertised everywhere, you are agitated to get one anywhere you go, you receive credit card offers in your mailbox, you hear [more...]

Date: 2009-10-01 17:31:40

Credit Scores & Car Loans

Q: What credit score is needed to get a car loan? What are the best options in your opinion? Any help would be appreciated. Thank you so much. Sincerely, Julie A: Even though the economy is seeing a mild recovery, credit is still tight which means it may be difficult to find a low interest rate car loan unless your credit score is above average. [more...]

Date: 2009-10-01 05:00:30

How to Raise My Credit Score

A common question many people have is how to raise their credit scores ... score is just a bunch of statistics! Get a copy of your credit report and scan for any errors ... it down! When you have an account with no negative reports, it looks good on the credit report. Don’ [more...]

Date: 2009-01-16 07:26:13

A Step-By-Step Guide to Getting Your (Actually) Free Credit Report without Accidentally Signing Up For Extras: Part One – TransUnion

Those songs from a certain misleading ad campaign sure are catchy – and I don’t just mean that their melodies are hooky and infectious. The main catch from this supposed freebie website  (which shall not be named so as not to introduce any possible confusion with the only FTC authorized vendor of free annual credit reports) is that while the credit report is free, the “credit monitoring” service certainly isn’t.Aand it’s no walk in the park to cancel it either. [more...]

Date: 2009-07-27 10:54:03

Credit Scores & Car Loans

Q: What credit score is needed to get a car loan? What are the best options in your opinion? Any help would be appreciated. Thank you so much. Sincerely, Julie A: Even though the economy is seeing a mild recovery, credit is still tight which means it may be difficult to find a low interest rate car loan unless your credit score is above average. [more...]

Date: 2009-10-01 05:00:30

Obama Named Gun Salesman Of The Year

Hope! Change! People buying massive amounts of guns and ammo! “It’s credit where credit is due,” (the link is getting slammed, so keep trying) ... , January 6, the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) issued a notice [more...]

Date: 2009-01-17 00:30:33

Project Uncensored

By David Swanson Project Censored has released a valuable new book called "Censored 2009: The Top 25 Stories of 2007-08" ... was more responsible for it, not on who should get the most credit for it. Then they reported that huge numbers ... credit rather than blame for a vote that, for once, matched the will of the public. Small [more...]

Date: 2008-10-01 16:16:11

I Hate Equifax

I wish I could turn my pure emotion into words on the screen to fully express my hatred for Equifax. It is pure. It is flowing. I. Hate. Equifax. Why I Hate Equifax I’ve recently reminded you to check your annual credit report ... running there has been an issue that results in us not getting her annual credit report. This doesn’ [more...]

Date: 2009-01-16 13:00:13

Malawi ranked 132nd out of 183 countries in economic survey

The World Bank’s Doing Business (DB) 2010 Report has position Malawi as number 132 out of the 183 ranked economies in the world. The report measures a set of regulations affecting ten stages of a business’s life, namely starting a business, dealing with construction permits, employing workers, registering property, getting credit, protecting investors, paying taxes , trading across borders, enforcing contracts and closing a business. [more...]

Date: 2009-10-01 16:37:46

Emily’s List: Model behavior edition

Today is the birthday of English supermodel Kate Moss, Hungarian model Michelle Wild and British fashion model Lauren McAvoy ... -up of the best credit card-related blog posts. Celebs love credit cards too 1. Get Rich Slowly finally took the time to read his 63-page credit card agreement and found something he wasn't expecting. Models [more...]

Date: 2009-01-16 14:30:59

Flipswap invests $14 million to help recycle used electronics

Flipswap, who claim to be the leading solution in electronics trade-ins, has announced that HGEN Partners, ... in dumpsters ending up in landfills each year.  By offering mobile customers instant credit ... .  Flipswap provides a way for users to recycle their old handsets while getting credit toward the purchase [more...]

Date: 2008-11-12 13:59:33

damn, i'm good

PART ONEI have spent ALL MORNING (and into the afternoon) trying to call a credit union to get a competing loan on this house nailed down ... . Niiiiiice. So I find out how to quicken up the process (we close a week from tomorrow) and then gird ... for it at closing.) . . . . third, uhm, well, look. Mr. B. has talked to the folks at the Navy Credit Union [more...]

Date: 2009-01-14 21:34:00

Mortgage Market Week in Review

So, it’s Friday again and what has this week been like for the mortgage world? Well, it’s certainly not been boring, that’s for sure! ... that the government will actually have to bailout Fannie and Freddie. The credit markets get nervous ... that what they did was a big fat nothing. I’ve done a fair amount of reading and studying of Bernanke [more...]

Date: 2008-08-08 15:17:35

Hurry, hurry, and don't look at the fine print

(Wes Vernon, RenewAmerica analyst) - If Congress seriously wants to come to grips with the underlying causes of the credit crisis, ... , we may get our "instant gratification," without getting a long-term solution... [more...]

Date: 2008-09-25 05:56:32

The Great Crash of 2008

If this isn't a Great Crash I don't know how to define one. Stocks were down another 7 percent today ... have they gone on strike? Not because of the difficulty of getting credit. Most consumers can barely ... , 2007 (the National Bureau of Economic Research now tells us) was the first on record in which median earnings [more...]

Date: 2008-12-01 22:28:00

Credit Card Payoff Calculator with Excel

, every little web applet pretty much to determine how long something as “simple” as paying off a credit card seems to be laced with spyware or less ... (b2,-b4,b1) 6 Years to resolve                                =b5/12 And voila, instant credit card ... and go further into the whole. So, that being said, how do we get a calculator for credit card [more...]

Date: 2009-01-16 21:35:36

Sound bites galore on today's presidential trail

It was a good day for good lines from the stump. The Ticket already sent kudos Barack Obama's way for a well-turned variation of a famed Ronald ... -- Bob Casey of Pennsylvania -- coined the barb, Biden said. But he gets credit for delivering ... up for free automatic and instant alerts of every new Ticket item with gusto sped directly to your cell. [more...]

Date: 2008-10-09 01:03:31

Miles Rewards

The husband told me few days ago that his miles awards to anywhere in the US or Asia has been doing nice. And we can prolly use that anytime ... for our vacation. www.megacredit.com So, I might get a new credit card that has a miles rewards cards. I have that before but I simply discontinued it due to a very high per annual fee. Now, that the [more...]

Date: 2008-10-29 03:03:40

Market Gains Don't Impress Stockbroker Photos [The Panic Of '08]

Asian and European stock markets are posting gains of 4 to 10 percent this morning thanks to a coordinated effort among ... was aimed at the wrong target. Purchasing mortgage securities from banks wouldn't do anything to kick-start lending and get credit flowing again, they said. Rather, banks would use the proceeds [more...]

Date: 2008-10-13 12:20:58

Try getting a loan

by Misha Weidman: I’ve been talking to lenders over the last few weeks to get a sense of the credit crunch from their side of the desk ... have a stash of cash ready to go for your down payment and your credit score better be impeccable – or you’ll ... . Several were loan officers at big retail banks like Bank of America and Wells Fargo. Others were [more...]

Date: 2008-12-20 16:35:30

How To Get Your Free Government Credit Report

Under the Fair Credit Reporting Act, you are entitled to ask for, and receive, a free copy of your government credit report once a year. The FCRA serves to promote accurate information, held in privacy, by consumer reporting companies [more...]

Date: 2009-09-24 11:08:43

US Fails to Protect Against the Living Dead & Other Dangers

The week of August 7th, 2008 the amount of malicious spam a single computer user received finally overtook health and product spam. Meant to exploit holes in your operating system, get credit card information from you, or simply ... for American Progress and the Center for Democracy and Technology have released a report which shows [more...]

Date: 2008-08-13 18:56:59

Comic-Con Forecast: Hot, Crowded and Geeky

SAN DIEGO -- Like Clark Kent ducking into a phone booth, Comic-Con International is about to get super ... credit for firing up the buzz machine that led to Iron Man's superheroic box office numbers. "Comic ... ? You can still score one on Craigslist if you're willing to cough up the big bucks.) The lines to pick [more...]

Date: 2008-07-24 03:51:26

Bush and the War in Iraq

George W. Bush does not get the credit he deserves for keeping our nation safe from terrorism since 9/11 ... disappointment.’For many historians -- not allowing a little history to pass before rendering judgment -- this makes him a ‘failed president.’ In a 2006 survey of 744 history professors, 82 percent [more...]

Date: 2009-01-17 02:39:00

BREAKING KNEES!!! The Internet May Go Dark Just As "Kneegate" Negates Pats' Season!

*Pardon me as I rehash the obvious, perhaps even use some of the same jokes you've already seen/heard - I haven't been in tune with the national ... the "One" part of that "18 and..." mantra. But I won't take credit for Tom Brady realizing the law ... us all: 1. If the Pats do well, Bill Belichick will get MORE credit. We all know it's his fault [more...]

Date: 2008-09-06 13:50:37

NFP: Even Worse Than Reported

Over the past few years, we have railed at the prettyfied numbers that come out of BLS regarding NFP job creation and the unemployment rate ... of aberrational, credit-driven economic growth was hidden from the public view. Many (tho not all) of Wall Street ... now in a full blown recession, and the Housing and Credit crisis getting worse, it hardly semed [more...]

Date: 2008-12-08 11:34:50

The Three Prices--more than zero, zero, and less than zero

My book is mostly about two prices--something and nothing--but at dinner in NYC with Jay Walker this week, ... their search, but it actually has a long tradition in traditional marketing. You find it instant rebates ... you get for using credit or loyalty cards. Jay pointed out that a cashback rebate invokes a very different [more...]

Date: 2008-09-21 04:16:47

A Step-By-Step Guide to Getting Your (Actually) Free Credit Report without Accidentally Signing Up For Extras

Those songs from a certain misleading ad campaign sure are catchy - and I don't just mean that their melodies are hooky and infectious. The main catch from this supposed freebie website (which shall not be named so as not to introduce any possible confusion with the only FTC authorized vendor of free annual credit reports) is that... 3 Vote(s) [more...]

Date: 2009-07-27 15:01:16

Glorious Beloved Deregulator Guy speaks

Listening to the Beloved Glorious Decider Guy tonight I was struck by two things. I had to actually go to whitehouse ... , you would find it harder and more expensive to get credit. More businesses would close their doors, and millions of Americans could lose their jobs. Even if you have good credit history, it would [more...]

Date: 2008-09-25 03:45:32

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