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Does Anyone Have Some Tums? – a Palm Springs, Palm Desert, & Indian Wells California Finance Attorney Take on the Growing Financial Crisis

Pass me a couple of airsick bags, will you? Watching the stock market drop like an airplane hitting an air pocket and then rising only to drop again is enough to give you heartburn, even for a California finance attorney. Business, real estate, corporate and finance lawyers, whether they practice in San Diego, Orange County, Palm Springs or Indian Wells think they have seen it all when it comes to seeing finance fraud in litigation cases. [more...]

Date: 2009-09-19 00:29:30

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Scarcity of Debtor-in-Possession Financing Forcing Earlier Bankruptcy Filings

In more normal times, when a company faces the risk of bankruptcy but believes it has a viable business, ... to debtor-in-possession financing. The DIP financing is senior to all outstanding debt, and is generally ... limited non-DIP financing with this approach (particularly secured financing). But a Morgan Stanley [more...]

Date: 2008-12-13 06:17:52

Do You Need A Factoring Facility?

September 24, 2009 | By Thomas Dobson In Finance | by Thomas DobsonPerhaps, when you first read a factoring service contract, it may appear complicated. In reality, though, the idea behind invoice finance is not that difficult to comprehend. With the advantage of factoring, your business has the ability to access finance from invoices almost immediately from issue.What this translates to for small or medium sized business concerns is that invoices that are slow to pay are transformed into cash. [more...]

Date: 2009-09-24 14:24:38

Role of Corporate Finance in a Fiscal System

by Mary Bush The sector of finance wherein all the fiscal decisions are taken by conglomerates is called as corporate finance ... : Debt Consolidation Articles Tips to Use Purchase Order Funding To Grow Your Business ... decisions and methods. Under corporate finance, capital investment resolutions are long-term company [more...]

Date: 2009-01-06 19:05:52

Homeowner Loans

About Champion Finance Champion Finance is a UK based finance company that provide competitive any purpose homeowner loans, secured loans and debt consolidation services starting from as low as 7.5%. Champion Finance works ... the New Year with lowering your monthly outgoings If you have an overdraft, credit cards or any other [more...]

Date: 2009-01-07 17:46:30

TC50: LearnVest Is A Personal Financial Guide For Women

Now more than ever, personal finance education and help is crucial to anyone’s financial health. Mint.com, a former TechCrunch 40 company who won the top prize at the conference, has grown incredibly since its launch and was recently acquired by Intuit for $170 million. TechCrunch50 startup LearnVest is serving a different purpose when it comes to online finances; the startup focuses on helping users, particularly women, organize their finances and learn how to become financially savvy. [more...]

Date: 2009-09-15 18:44:01

Loughlin Meghji Establishes New Corporate Finance Group

Loughlin Meghji announced three senior staff appointments, expanding the firm’s expertise to include a new corporate finance group ... on assisting clients with corporate finance-related issues such as capital structure advisory, debt facility ... will be applicable for companies with solid operating performance that are facing financing-related [more...]

Date: 2009-01-14 18:06:48

100% Home Loan Financing – Bend your muscles

Listen with the current "mortgage meltdown" we are so much about that day, your average consumer thinks that the days of the 100% financing have gone by the wayside. It's true, you are hard pressed these days to a bank or lender who want to carry a second mortgage will find that adding combined with a first mortgage, financed at 100%. This is because if there is a standard, sit in second lien position is particularly risky. Too much risk is involved. [more...]

Date: 2009-09-19 11:52:46

Kunekt Completes Financing

Kunekt Completes Financing CARSON CITY, NV, Sept. 24 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ — Kunekt Corporation (OTCBB: KNKT) announced today that it completed a $450,000 debt financing provided by the president and chief executive officer of the Company. The Company plans to use the proceeds for general working capital purposes. The promissory note carries interest at the Fed (U.S.) prime rate, which is currently 3.25%, and is secured by the Company’s assets and payable on demand. [more...]

Date: 2009-09-24 22:22:47

Free Financial Spreadsheets from Google Docs

Last week, I shared a list of 16 alternatives to Microsoft Money . These applications offer a variety of solutions for managing your personal finances. But not everyone wants to use a specialized computer program to track their spending. Many Get Rich Slowly readers (including my wife) are content to manage their money with a spreadsheet. Spreadsheets are easily customizable, and if you know what you’re doing, they can actually be a lot more powerful than standard personal-finance software. [more...]

Date: 2009-07-09 20:00:23

Does It Pay to Re-Finance?

Does It Pay to Re-Finance? Refinancing your mortgage can be an excellent opportunity to save money and get better terms on your home loan ... of re-financing. These situations include when rates of interest drop, when the householders credit ... t be longer than the householder plans to retain the property. Credit Score Improvements [more...]

Date: 2009-01-08 14:49:52

Joining Accounts

Here’s an interesting question, does not have a joint account or joint money, mean a lack of trust in a marriage? Most people would say that joining finances before marriage is a bad idea. There is always the possibility of things going south and the relationship ending on the rocks. However, there is also the possibility that, you could treat your relationship finances pre-marriage as a business arrangement. Where both parties contribute equal amounts to investments, home, expenses, etc. [more...]

Date: 2009-09-29 13:00:32

Hatch Hopes to Protect Americans from Greedy Democrats

HATCH TO SENATE FINANCE COMMITTEE: THERE IS STILL TIME TO PRESS RESET AND PASS A TRULY BIPARTISAN BILL Offers Amendments in Hopes to Protect Middle Class Families, Seniors; Control Government Spending WASHINGTON – Sen. Orrin Hatch (R-Utah), member of the Senate Finance Committee, today during the Committee’s Consideration of America’s Healthy Future Act of 2009 made the following statement: “The desire for reform is universal. [more...]

Date: 2009-09-23 05:29:14

How To Combine Multiple Debts Into One Consolidation Loan

September 5, 2009 | By Bruce Simmons In Finance | by Bobby SavilleThe best course of action to take sometimes isn’t clear until you’ve listed and considered your alternatives. The following paragraphs should help clue you in to what the experts think is significant with non profit debt consolidation.With a proper Deed proposal finance can also be obtained for the business if it can be shown that this will lower debt and give the business a fighting chance. [more...]

Date: 2009-09-05 17:28:48

An Inside Look at Blueprint: Split, Finish and Track It

As we mentioned earlier , Chase has rolled out some new financial tools to help you track your finances and conquer your credit card debt. All in all, these simply amount to fancy ways of looking at your balance – but as anyone who regularly reads personal finance blogs knows by now, the road to a debt free (or at least a manageable amount of debt) is paved with discipline moreso than breaks from credit card companies. Blueprint offers Chase customers some flashy systems for motivating yourself. [more...]

Date: 2009-09-18 11:55:09

Public spending cuts will be very painful

The Prime Minister is, apparently, intending to introduce a “Fiscal Responsibility Act” to tackle Britain’s scandalously bad public sector finances. Well, I suppose, better late than never and I await the details with great interest. I also await the next Pre-Budget Report, which will include the Treasury’s latest economic forecasts and projections for the public finances. In particular, I shall be interested to see whether the Chancellor amends his target for “balancing the budget”. [more...]

Date: 2009-09-29 10:19:29

Beneficial Finance - Mortgage Review

Beneficial Finance, does personal, auto, and mortgage lending as a retail subsidiary of mega-bank parent HSBC Group (NYSE: HBC) ... of Beneficial Finance should be avoided. They are big pushers of credit cards, home equity loans, and debt consolidation mortgages. You can’t expect much better being a subsidiary of HSBC Mortgage [more...]

Date: 2009-01-14 22:05:31

How long should it take a dealer to finance you. I got the car 2 weeks ago and haven’t heard of financingisdon

June 17th, 2009 Posted in Finance Q&AI went about 2 weeks ago to try to financial a car. we have bad credit tall income to debt comparative measure as well as upon debt managment. It should take them which prolonged to see if we can get financed right? we keep job as well as withdrawal messages as well as they have been not returning my calls. [more...]

Date: 2009-06-17 01:40:46

Don’t fall off the wagon with your finances

The following is a guest post from John Gowan. John is the principal financial consultant at Financial Legacy Builders , an asset management and financial consulting firm that specializes in helping young adults eliminate debt, build wealth, and increase their giving. Staying on Course with Your Finances How many times have you started something that you never quite finished? If you’re like most people, there are probably too many instances to count. [more...]

Date: 2009-09-28 14:57:24

Auto Finance Basics ABC

Auto Finance Basics ABC by Terry U. VostorAutofinace can be very confusing if handled without proper guidance. You may stand the risk of paying unnecessarily high amounts of installments or getting an unfavorable warranty deal. Remember first and foremost it is you , or your family , who pays the price of poor , sloppy or incomplete negotiation in the auto purchase and sales process. You , as a consumer, have a responsibility to both your family and yourself. [more...]

Date: 2009-09-25 12:34:00

Welcome to the Carnival of Debt Reduction

Hi everyone, and welcome to this week’s Carnival of Debt Reduction . There were more good articles submitted this week than are shown below, but only a small number of them dealt directly with (a) personal debt reduction stories or (b) how to reduce consumer debt: No Credit Needed dispenses with a lengthy introduction and jumps right in with a six-step process for eliminating credit card debt . Free Money Finance recounts a story of how one couple paid off their mortgage . Financ [more...]

Date: 2009-09-28 05:00:04

Online finance site notifies users of fraudulent charges

Online finance site notifies users of fraudulent charges Posted by Andrew Nusca @ 11:39 am Categories: Offbeat news Tags: Personal Finance, Site, ... called Adele has been fraudulently charging 25 cent-micropayments to millions of credit cards across ... you about several months ago? The company recently went “above and beyond,” as consumer watchdog [more...]

Date: 2009-01-15 19:39:53

New From the GAO

New GAO Reports, Correspondence and Testimony (PDFs) Source: Government Accountability Office 29 September 2009 + Reports 1. Debt Management: Treasury Inflation Protected Securities Should Play a Heightened Role in Addressing Debt Management Challenges 2. Combating Terrorism: U.S. Agencies Report Progress Countering Terrorism and Its Financing in Saudi Arabia, but Continued Focus on Counter Terrorism Financing Efforts Needed – + Correspondence 1. [more...]

Date: 2009-09-29 22:33:44

THE FROZEN IPO MARKET

The stock market has traditionally been a great place for private companies with a small group of owners to a get a return on their initial ... to raise $450 million to pay off current investors and help finance future wind power projects ... . "If we are unable to obtain additional debt or equity financing, we may have to curtail our development [more...]

Date: 2008-12-30 13:21:58

Microsoft To Finance Yahoo Bid? Apparently Not

TechCrunch earlier today reported that Microsoft (MSFT) ... of about $20 billion. Microsoft would provide financing in the form of debt, the story says, and would also ... has been approached about financing a group of Silicon Valley executives looking to launch a bid [more...]

Date: 2009-01-07 16:11:00

A look at my finances

I hadn't updated my finances spreadsheet in some time, so I did it during the day today to take a look at my outlook, and it's not encouraging. Right now, I'm behind on the credit card I use for basic necessities, even after cutting way back. Turns out a few things too many came up, and with barely enough money to manage the bills, [more...]

Date: 2009-01-07 07:38:17

I Will Teach You to Be Rich

Personal finance blogs are all over the place! Technorati says there are over 800 personal finance blogs. So how the ... Love Not Debt (43) Mighty Bargain Hunter (37) Everybody Loves Your Money (28) Wheaties ... (18) No Credit Needed (17) Experiglot: Experiments in Finance (15) Single Ma’s Fabulous Financials [more...]

Date: 2009-01-09 18:03:29

28 Unique Bits of Financial Brilliance

Financial wisdom is not intrinsic to the mind, it’s learned. Most people who are brilliant with their finances received at least some third-party guidance. Maybe they absorbed the knowledge from a parent or grandparent. Or perhaps they pursued it on their own by reading personal finance books, blogs and magazines [more...]

Date: 2008-07-17 11:18:32

FINANCE: "Islamic Finance May Be On to Something: ... debt," by Frederik Balfour, BusinessWeek, 24 November 2008. The clovenfooted here is collateralized debt obligations (CDOs)--simply unclean in sharia terms. Why people like Islamic finance [more...]

Date: 2008-12-09 21:29:44

Organizing your Finances

One of Suze Orman tips that really struck me was: Financial insecurity makes you vulnerable even to minor life events. Something as small as a broken boiler can send you into a spiral of debt for years to come ... to organize our finances is one of the leading causes of bankruptcy. Unpaid bills filing-up, small loans left [more...]

Date: 2009-01-15 04:28:33

How to keep on financing wind farms when banks have no money left.

My earlier wind diaries can all be found here: Wind power series Banks are engaged in a massive deleveraging exercise right now. One part of that has been much described and commented upon: the elimination of bad assets ... user of debt finance to get investments done. This means that it is an industry particularly [more...]

Date: 2008-12-23 17:13:33

Pocket Profile: The Finance Buff

This week we spoke with The Finance Buff. His blog was named the Best Finance Blog for People Ready to Save or Invest by the CEO of Wesabe ... percentile! Credit Card Debt: None. Top percentile! What are your two favorite financial products? Why [more...]

Date: 2009-01-15 17:07:27

The D Word

Tyler Cowen argues that we are in a depression: 1. We have zombie banks. 2. There is considerable regulatory uncertainty in banking and finance ... sectoral shift out of real estate, luxury goods, and debt-financed consumption ... will help), uncertainty being a key part of a depression. The problem here is that there is no clear [more...]

Date: 2009-01-12 19:47:04

New Year, New Hope: Plan Your Finance to Yield the Best Return

Forget what some people said about how bleak the year 2009 is. The truth is, all we need right now is financial planning. The premise - plan your finance well, and it will deliver you from financial woes that hit many who unprepared in 2007 and 2008 [more...]

Date: 2008-12-26 02:12:43

If You Could Give $25 to Wipe Away $42,526 in Student Loans, Would You?

I have spent the past week wrestling with how to tell this story – and whether or not I should tell this story. It’s certainly related to personal finance, especially my own personal finances. But if I tell it wrong, it comes across as overly political and a plea for money. Awesome! Two things that I’ve attempted to avoid for the entirety of this blog! [more...]

Date: 2009-09-28 05:02:10

Easy Debt Advice for Proper Debt Management

This Article is all about finance which gives detail information how to utilize the finance in your daily or monthly basis ... and live a happier life! Read on below for great debt advice to help free you from those ever ... out your quarries. Once you’ve found yourself buried in debt, it can be hard to manage debt properly [more...]

Date: 2009-01-14 21:02:09

10 Personal Finance Essentials

This article is part of an M-Network group writing project, the 12 Days of Christmas - Personal Finance Style ... finance is about more than just spending less than you earn and staying out of debt. You need a balance [more...]

Date: 2008-12-10 12:53:55

52nd Bankruptcy & Debt Carnival- Now Online!

Monday, August 31, 2009debt kid presents Depression and Debt a Dangerous Combination posted at DebtKid.Jack Schmidt presents Bending Time in the World of Finance posted at SectorMatic Money Journal, saying, “SectorMatic Money Site – Personal Finance | Everything for the Big Spender on a Budget! Now you can live like a fat cat, even if you’re on a money diet. Laugh all the way to the bank with Jack Schmidt and SectorMatic. [more...]

Date: 2009-08-31 19:40:21

Ebook: Conserving Your Assets

Date: 2009-01-13 03:31:01

fix your finances, save money – step 2

Breaking through the wall. In the middle of the Olympics, I thought it would be a good idea to issue a personal finance challenge, ... to pay less for the same service. debt repayment Option 1: If you have a credit card that you’re ... 1 Otherwise, if your debt is large-ish (a few thousand and up) and you have a good credit rating, it may [more...]

Date: 2008-08-21 12:00:46

Dubai freezes salaries, boosts spending 42%

Order my book online from this link The new Dubai Government budget is freezing salaries and hiking public spending by 42 per cent to $10 ... undermining local competitive advantages in tourism and real estate. $80bn debt However ... by reckless financing. Realty reality More end-user finance for property is definitely going to be needed [more...]

Date: 2009-01-11 04:51:43

Carnival of Personal Finance #179 - Smile Edition

Welcome to the 179th edition of Carnival of Personal Finance. This week, I want to remind everyone to smile because there’s never enough happiness in the world! Editor’s Choice Photo By Richard M. Reading these articles just brings a huge smile to my face! Great positive advices are what we should all be writing about! [more...]

Date: 2008-11-17 08:01:51

Weekend Reading: Fantasy Baseball

About six months ago I entered into a Fantasy Baseball League with a group of personal finance bloggers ... England and in Kevin’s home town of Cincinnati, to help them raise money and awareness. American Cancer ... Do to Prepare for An Emergency Top 5 Paths to a Million Dollars Finance 101: Good Debt vs. Bad Debt [more...]

Date: 2008-10-05 14:13:20

The Personal Finance Secrets “They” Don’t Want You to Know About

I get asked to review all sorts of crazy personal finance books, plans, programs, and schemes all the time, ... and negotiate lower rates (or in some cases a balance reduction), adopt a very strong debt repayment ... you attempt to buy your bad debt from the creditor (and then obviously dismiss it), but the legal [more...]

Date: 2008-08-30 17:00:11

Defending Freedom of Speech…

Why the Free Press Matters The Terror Finance Blog January 6 2009 By Alyssa A. LappenIt is always important to remember that while terrorists use their funds to finance terror, they have also in recent years gone hog wild on efforts to silence the media concerning any criticism whatsoever of Islam [more...]

Date: 2009-01-14 12:23:37

Finance House Enhancements With A Home Improvement Loan

by katie George Making home improvements can sometimes be really expensive but some improvements or repairs are unavoidable and if the necessary cash is not available you need to resort to some source of finance. For these situations, the loan industry has created home improvement loans. Read on if you want to know how they work [more...]

Date: 2009-01-06 21:22:56

Personal Finances Include Everything That Affects Our Money

Personal finance is an umbrella term which covers most of the varied financial and commercial aspects of your life.All of the ways you obtain funds for your personal use such as loans and credit cards, as well ... can be very high. In contrast to credit cards, personal loans will reduce your spending, because [more...]

Date: 2009-01-06 13:43:37

Eight reasons why we are in a depression

1. We have zombie banks. 2. There is considerable regulatory uncertainty in banking and finance. 3. There is a negative wealth effect from lower home and asset prices. 4. There is a big sectoral shift out of real estate, luxury goods, and debt-financed consumption. 5. Some of the automakers [more...]

Date: 2009-01-11 13:03:56

Nuru Personal Finance Cards: Review and Giveaway

Today’s a combo review and giveaway! NURU asked if I’d be interested in taking a look at their personal finance flip deck and share my thoughts ... student. This is the ounce of prevention which may keep them from needing the pound of cure later on. It won’t help them build a debt snowball or find another way out of debt, but it may keep them [more...]

Date: 2009-01-08 12:00:58

Sharia Finance Coming To The USA?

Nope, that title is not a joke. And it is not that far off ... push by Muslim figures in recent weeks to promote Islamic finance as a response to the debt-fueled ... more radical every year, Muslims demand the removal of certain items from public view, they start calling [more...]

Date: 2008-11-06 12:42:50

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