Wheel out the photocopiers, Darling!

Gordon Brown and Alistair Darling, yesterday. A few days ago, ... by billions and using the extra cash to buy assets ranging from government or commercial debt ... , the Telegraph has now cottoned on to the story... The Government is set to throw out the 165-year old law [more...]

Date: 2009-01-12 18:29:01

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Erase 50% of Your Debts You Owe Legally and Ethically – Beat the Recession!

Fact: It is now legal to erase 50% of your debt that you owe to any financial institution, however Americans have been educated by their creditors and so they stay in debt until they retire. Card debts of $10,000 will take an average consumer 40 years to pay , interest rates are that high. [more...]

Date: 2009-09-15 06:01:19

What Would Happen if You Get Into Financial Trouble

With new technology constantly coming onto the market, the prices of everything rising, and the introduction of more and more credit cards, it is very easy to understand why an increasing number of people are finding themselves in debt. Personal bankruptcy is at all time high because now people are having problems paying for their homes. However, individuals who see quickly that they have a debt problem then there is help available. [more...]

Date: 2009-09-25 09:05:07

I Can't Stop Shopping. Help Me!

Christ With Shopping Bags, Banksy Gala Darling – I Can’t Stop Shopping. Help Me! (mp3) Right-click to save, or click to play. “I used to laugh off the fact that I was always in debt and a bit of a shopaholic. Now I realise I actually have a very serious problem. I go to uni in a city and so every day I go past shops which [more...]

Date: 2008-10-29 17:20:20

Reader Mailbag #38

Each Monday, The Simple Dollar opens up the reader mailbags and answers ten to twenty simple questions offered up by the readers on personal finance ... treatment program and have spent all of my savings and am now in debt trying to save her. She wrecked [more...]

Date: 2008-11-24 14:00:07

Dow Tanks 680 to Below 9000; Investors Fleeing Mutual Funds

On the one hand, I was mystified that the stock market was up in the morning session given that the money market seize up was not at all improved and ... . But even with my bearish predisposition, given that the mess in the debt markets is now starting to engulf [more...]

Date: 2008-10-09 21:13:10

Are mortgage rates heading lower

As the stock market gains new ground investors are looking to short rates as a marker for future interest rates ... . As applications for home loans have actually seen an increase. This is a good sign for those who provide debt consolidation loans, as more people are now getting back into the market to look to lower [more...]

Date: 2009-01-10 13:42:54

Friends Don't Let Friends Buy Stocks - Look at State Street

Wow, total panic out there. State Street (STT) is supposed to be a safe asset manager type of financial institution - it's down 40% - oh wait, it's rebounded to only down 30%. Now S&P can downgrade its debt, credit spreads can widen ... %... company statementIn response to questions received today from media and other sources, State Street [more...]

Date: 2008-09-18 20:26:34

Debt Consolidation

I’m sure that with the bad economy right now, a lot of people are piling up credit card debt in an effort to stay afloat. Credit card debt can quickly get out of hand and become overwhelming, though. That’s why Fast Debt Freedom is here to help with their unsecured debt consolidation plan! Their debt settlement [more...]

Date: 2008-10-02 03:42:45

Individuals With Too Much Debt Can Receive Monetary Assistance From Federal Grants – Available Now!

Owning a home is a great responsibility and equally a huge reward. Many people who move from an apartment into their own home cite it as one of the most enjoyable experiences of their lives. Home ownership is a very long commitment to a mortgage and that responsibility doesn’t go away just because other circumstances may change. In a financially challenged economy, many homeowners find themselves facing hardships when it comes to keeping their house payments up to date. [more...]

Date: 2009-09-29 18:16:01

Lessons Learned From Losing a Quarter Million Dollars

About the author: This guest article is presented by Debtkid, who recently begun working part-time for LendingClub. He regularly writes at Debtkid about his journey to become debt free. A few years back ... up with over a quarter million dollars in debt because of my losses. I’m 25 now and have not traded [more...]

Date: 2008-11-26 12:30:53

Democrats ignore recent history/reality, continue to spend money we don't have

The Wednesday edition of the Cedar Rapids Gazette shows a picture of Governor Chet Culver and a headline - a snippet from his state of the state ... budget properly.  So now our ignorant of debt Governor proposes borrowing money in the form of issuing [more...]

Date: 2009-01-16 00:08:01

U.S. Woes Open Door for China

Gerald F. Seib, executive Washington editor of The Wall Street Journal, ... . In practical terms, because its financial system is far less exposed to the debt problems now ravaging the West [more...]

Date: 2008-12-23 16:00:49

Don’t Sign Up For A debt Consolidation Loan Untill You Now All The Facts. Read This Now!

If you are in debt then I know how bad things can be because I have been there. [more...]

Date: 2009-06-23 13:10:58

Vultures and Victims

Has anyone noticed how many loan companies now fill up the commercial breaks? ... and debt consolidation loans - specifically to people who have an impaired credit record ... be particularly vulnerable to unmanageable debt.” Lending to people with an impaired credit record [more...]

Date: 2009-01-08 19:22:29

The Best of Get Rich Slowly: September 2008

September was a sort of unofficial “credit card education month” around here. I tried to share information about how to use credit responsibly. (Now maybe it’s time to move on to debt reduction themes!) Most of all, there were some great ... ? (a fantastic discussion) Best of the Forums Though I didn’t have time to hang out there, the Get Rich [more...]

Date: 2008-09-30 20:00:17

The Niche Blogger: A Review

Almost a year ago, ... . In fact, I used this same system for a non-profit blog that I put up. The site was indexed ... out of a $72,000 debt and is now earning $5,000 a month. I signed up for the Niche Blogger because [more...]

Date: 2009-01-14 21:22:03

law suit

i am in a debt settlement program now for about 3 months. They are carging me a fee and taking money out of my account each month. They say it will take 3 years to settle. I got a call form [more...]

Date: 2008-09-29 12:04:27

Credit Repair Help - Here’s How To Start Right Now!

by Mark Alison People are in debt. Living in this world with bad credit can be difficult ... , but it soon will be liberating. When you get rid of your credit cards, be sure to pay off and close ... . It’s hard to repair your credit and it makes life difficult to have bad credit [more...]

Date: 2009-01-05 11:03:01

5 Simple Steps To Making Your “Get Out Of Debt” Resolution Stick - Part 1

We are now officially two full days into 2009… How are you doing with your New Year’s resolutions? Hopefully you’ve managed to stick with them so far! In today’s post, we’re going to look at the first step in my 5 step system to make your resolutions stick. This first part is called Being Realistic About [more...]

Date: 2009-01-03 00:01:20

Financial Forecast for 2009, Considering Resource Limitations

In this post, I consider some major issues contributing to our current financial problems, before making a financial forecast for 2009. These are 1 ... from the bottom: Layer 1. Household Debt (Mortgages, auto loans, credit card debt, student loans ... debt-based financial system operating. 3. Where we are now, and the role reduced resources [more...]

Date: 2009-01-06 15:10:32

Wolf Versus Pettis on US Stimulus, Fiscal Deficit (Not for the Fainthearted)

Martin Wolf has a very good comment in the Financial Times, "Why Obama’s plan is still inadequate and incomplete," ... 6) I argued that the debt-encumbered US private sector would now be forced to save .... The excess [more...]

Date: 2009-01-14 15:43:00

Pay Off Your Debts in 2009: 3 Strategies To Being Debt-Free

Today’s post is a guest post By Rachel Karl, a student of MakeMoneyFromWriting.com ... there! 3.    Now comes the third and final task: The debt snowball. Look over all of your credit card bills ... you have three credit cards: “A,” “B,” and “C.” “A” has a balance of $800 with a minimum payment [more...]

Date: 2009-01-09 12:20:36

Weakonomics Tour of the Country:  Georgia

AKA the “We Started As A Prison” State Originally set up as a place for Britain to dump it’s people that couldn’t pay off their debts (now there’s [more...]

Date: 2009-01-15 13:25:02

Madoff and the Failure of the SEC

Madoff is a perfect case study showing that the SEC is incapable of protecting investors as well as free-market institutions can ... , and collateralized debt obligations that resulted from the housing bubble. Now it has failed to protect thousands more individuals and charities from something as simple and old as a Ponzi scheme! [more...]

Date: 2008-12-18 06:00:00

A Bubble in Bearishness

Nouriel Roubini: Last year’s worst-case scenarios came true. The global financial pandemic that I and others had warned about is now upon us ... of defaulting on their sovereign debt. Certainly, the United States will experience its worst recession [more...]

Date: 2009-01-08 00:26:43

Is Obama’s Inauguration TOO EXPENSIVE?

President Barack Obama’s inauguration next week is set to be the most expensive ever, predicted to reach over $150m. This dwarfs the $42 ... the rest of the country, now is not the time to rack up debt, Fenty told CNN. Contrast ... devastated by the tsunami. ■ A down payment on the nation’s deficit, which hit a record-breaking [more...]

Date: 2009-01-14 22:45:40

Returned China volunteers (RPCVs) ask the agency’s director to help pay $12, ... for two years with lung cancer, and her family is now left with a mountain of debt. Below is a letter [more...]

Date: 2009-01-14 18:00:46

Don’t Make Credit Decisions Based On Last Year’s Recommendations!

When I was taking a political science class in college, we learned about the problem of “fighting the last war ... about the advice of many newspaper columnists on credit card debt currently.  They may be right ... years but now seems to miss the point of the credit crisis.  If your credit card provider lowers [more...]

Date: 2009-01-08 23:46:33

Bad Debtors Be Warned, You Are Being Watched!

As the recession takes a hold more and more people are struggling to repay debt. Personal debt in Britain is increasing at a dramatic rate and is now approaching the 1.4 trillion pounds mark. However for one sector, business is booming. These are the private investigators charged with tracking down non payers of debt. “Why should people get away with not paying?” says a spokesperson for the Bankruptcy Advisory Service, which counsels bad debtors. [more...]

Date: 2009-09-11 01:50:50

Borrowing To Invest Vs. Saving To Invest

This is a follow up to my post about bums not being richer than you ... into investments so he will have a nice nest egg when he retires. He likes to avoid debt at all cost because ... to invest everything right now. Every month, our investor needs to make a payment to the line of credit [more...]

Date: 2008-12-22 00:22:31

Obama Set To Charge Already Beleagured Taxpayers $50 Million For Inauguration Bash

Bailing out banks. Bailing out car companies. Now taxpayers are staring down the barrel of an “economic stimulus” spending spree that will ... to help the city cover costs. That would double the $15 million Congress has already allocated to pay ... , now is not the time to rack up debt, Fenty told CNN. Watch more on the inauguration cost » “ [more...]

Date: 2008-12-21 22:36:56

The IRS Now Willing to Help

Credit issues have never concerned the IRS – unless you were trying to deduct interest on personal debt, ... their tax liens to a different asset. Until now, getting approval from the IRS to complete what is known ... to be more understanding in hardship cases. IRS agents will now have grater authority to suspend tax-collection actions [more...]

Date: 2009-01-13 21:38:24

Weekly Economic Potpourri November 22, 2008

Every week there are a numerous headlines that are worthy of mentioning but I simply run out of time ... plunge the nation further into debt and cost millions more jobs.“We have now lost 1.2 million jobs [more...]

Date: 2008-11-22 22:23:00

Turning 70, Marty Peretz Claims Samantha Power for Israel

Marty Peretz turns 70 today and says: Samantha Power said some erroneous things about Israel and then they talked ... , in A Problem from Hell: "Martin Peretz, whose New Republic had given me a voice during the Bosnia war ... this book ." A real debt. Six years old. Who has more power now. I say: Sampo. The lobby always blesses [more...]

Date: 2008-12-06 15:44:38

Net Worth: September - The market gobbled up $5,223.70

Not that it was all that surprising, right? ... goals i'm working on right now: 1) Erasing all our "credit card" debt, 2) Pumping up my half ... to some new blogging income (finally!), and i'm still religiously paying off my Credit Card with any [more...]

Date: 2008-10-01 14:50:53

++ JCB shedding 700 jobs ++

Another manufacturer is losing 700 of its workforce, thanks again to Labour’s (dis)economic policies ... in the Brownian bust that we’re now experiencing after his medium-term debt-fuelled boom, with the lack of economic strategy and the grim future for UK manufacturing, what else can we expect [more...]

Date: 2009-01-14 14:36:45

President Obama Wants You to Get Rid of Your Debt Apply For Your Free Federal Grant Now

Currently the United States of America is facing its most serious economic crisis in decades Commentators noted that the country lost about 2 6 million jobs last year, while another 589,000 were shed in January this year alone [more...]

Date: 2009-09-28 12:22:12

When Your Financial State Improves, Do Your Frugal Standards Change?

... replaced. We have very few debts now - just one student loan and a mortgage, no credit cards [more...]

Date: 2009-01-07 20:00:34

Back at you on GM argument

by cactusGeneral Motors and Social Security - Two Sides of the Same CoinThere's a group of folks out there who are busy pinning the blame for GM's ... is only being exacerbated now, when the government is taking on additional new debt to cover ... worse under Republican Presidents and been alleviated under Democratic Presidents - debt held [more...]

Date: 2008-11-29 12:39:00

Ultimate Debt Guide - Get Out of Debt With Debt Consolidation?

by Ash Ford How to get out of debt by not filing for bankruptcy or by signing up to a long-term debt relief plan which has the potential to push you ... truth about the credit card game is clear to me now and you’ll learn why numerous people remain in debt ... and be in over your head with loans, credit cards, car payments, mortgages etc. Finding a way [more...]

Date: 2009-01-15 02:47:14

Ed Is Scared But Courageous In The Face Of His Debt

Ed wrote to me through the GetOutOfDebt.org site and asked the following question ... very on top of my accounts. Now, I have approximately $41,000 in credit card debt (two different ... all the credit card debt via bankruptcy for whatever fees that may cost? At this point (even though [more...]

Date: 2008-10-11 22:44:24

Scotiabank offers some finacial advice for Canadians

These are some of the items that Scotiabank has offered to Canadians in order to improve their financial situation ... such as higher rate department store and other credit cards. Inform yourself about interest rates and options ... have a financial plan, now is the time to get one that emphasizes debt management and map out your short [more...]

Date: 2009-01-09 09:57:00

Thailand: Market swings and politics put rice farmers under siege

Flooding of Thailand's rice fieldsSix months ago, the price of rice in Asia had tripled to more than one thousand dollars a ton, ... to pay all my debt," she said. "When the farmland is destroyed, the debt is still ... are always in debt."Thaweewan and other farmers in the village are now worried because of floods [more...]

Date: 2009-01-16 01:48:00

A Reversal of Fortune

Over the past 30 years, there has been a significant redirection of global capital flows ... . China now holds over 10% of the US dollar denominated debt, a little more than a trillion dollars ... , to finance their heavy spending. The problem, he said, was not that Americans spend too much [more...]

Date: 2008-12-27 23:09:13

Oh, so now the banks want to talk about credit card debt

Funny how impending doom can change their minds. This remains an industry that is just begging to be regulated ... with consumer advocates to urge the government to allow huge portions of credit card debt to be forgiven ... for consumers to erase their credit card debts in bankruptcy. The new pilot program — which the banks [more...]

Date: 2008-10-31 08:38:00

Cold facts of how we could be ‘Iceland inside the euro’

Could the unthinkable come to pass here? Could Ireland default on its sovereign debt? The answer is yes. Such a disaster is now quite possible. In the same way as a family can end up losing the house, the car, everything, a country, too, can fail to make its repayments [more...]

Date: 2009-01-14 04:44:29

Debt Cosolidation

.fullpost{display:inline;}When we have to deal with monetary emergency situation, ... for that problem.Now if you are in the bad debt problem you must come to debt elimination site. They will help ... . They are the expert in free debt consolidation program since 1997. So just go there now and solve [more...]

Date: 2008-12-20 04:01:00

Foreclosure Help is On the Way

The freeze on foreclosure sales and evictions has now been frozen until the end of January, ... mortgage debt for people filing for bankruptcy. The IRS is also stepping up to the plate to assist ... payments, many of the homes in question carry IRS tax liens. Over 600,000 such tax liens are filed [more...]

Date: 2009-01-13 03:52:55

What About the Renters?

A little personal anecdote to help explain my philosophical opposition to the bailout, even assuming it would help the economy ( ... it wouldn’t be prudent to buy a home. In my case, I had some student loan debt, I lived in a part ... to afford a mortgage. Now, I probably could have gotten a loan. But the terms would have been ridiculous [more...]

Date: 2008-09-25 12:55:01

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