Wall Street Breakfast: Must-Know News

Consumers to get new loan program. The Treasury and Federal Reserve are working on a new facility to boost consumer financing, ... loans, student loans and credit cards, but could eventually be expanded to include mortgages [more...]

Date: 2008-11-25 12:15:23

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Wall Street Breakfast: Must-Know News

New acronym on the block... The government unveiled its newest initiative, called TALF, or Term Asset-Backed Securities Loan Facility. The $200B facility will support consumer finance, including student, auto and credit card loans ... Mac (FRE) and the Federal Home Loan Banks. According to the statement released by the Fed [more...]

Date: 2008-11-26 12:14:47

TARP “Reform” Only Makes Things Worse

Dear fellow patriot, Representative Barney Frank, chairman of the House Financial Services Committee, has introduced H.R ... of consumer loans, such as student and auto loans. More government bureaucracies to supervise other ... out auto manufactures and make loans to their financing arms. Congress opposed the use of the funds [more...]

Date: 2009-01-15 05:41:17

Time or Tithe?

I am writing this week about issues twenty-something people face financially, because I’m hosting tomorrow the Twenty-Something Carnival of Finances ... with student loan debt, credit card debt, a car loan, and fees typical of furnishing a place to live.  Twenty [more...]

Date: 2008-11-16 14:00:52

Ctrl BG: A Shortcut to Financial News 11/29

Hope everyone is having a great Thanksgiving weekend and got some great bargains yesterday! ... facility to support consumer finance, including student, auto, and credit card loans and loans backed ... consumers get home, car and credit card loans easier. I haven't figured out all the implications [more...]

Date: 2008-11-29 14:40:00

AES Student Loans Review (pfblogs.org)

American Education Services is a private company that offers information and applications for a variety of governmental and private financing options for students all under one roof. Their website http://www.aessuccess.org/ allows students and their parents to compare various college loan programs, search out financial aid and scholarships [more...]

Date: 2008-10-14 03:04:06

Government Extends Loans to Detroit Automakers

This is today’s big news, and you’ve probbably heard about it already ... Commentary: A Personal Finance Blog:GM Wants You to Fear its Collapse: ...New Students Get Student Loan ... . This morning, President Bush approved three-year loan to GM and Chrysler which would give [more...]

Date: 2008-12-19 16:07:46

Understanding Credit Information And How It Governs Our Everyday Life

When you ask for a student loan, try to get financing for a car or apply for a mortgage, the lender will look at your credit information ... slip into collection or made a settlement offer on a past credit card. By assessing this financial [more...]

Date: 2008-10-28 09:07:06

Crutches, Magpies, and Tomatoes Oh My!

I survived my knee surgery. Yay! Whew! I’ve spent the last few days icing, elevating, sleeping, medicating, and healing ... : Money Ning 6 Tips to Detour Around Car Loan Problems : The Frugal Duchess Travel Tips for College Students : Broke Grad Student Carnivals Carnival of Personal Finance : Banker Girl Festival [more...]

Date: 2008-09-21 03:21:48

Over to you, Khaled and Hishammuddin

Hi, i am student from Penang … can help us check for second semester PTPTN loan when can issue? now already mid semester ... . Dunno why PTPTN still like this “late issue the loan”, by this was make a lot of student feel suffer in finance. i already send mail to PTPTN, but no have ... [more...]

Date: 2008-11-23 11:27:17

Student Debt Consolidation Loan

by Mary Bush Large numbers of college students make that common mistake each year of signing up for as many credit cards as possible ... . About the Author: Debt Consolidation Articles Advise For Rebuilding Your Credit with a Prepaid Debit Card ... application. Of course, once the credit cards start to arrive, they’ll be using them to finance [more...]

Date: 2008-12-30 21:05:55

Breaking on the Web: September 17, A.M. Edition

McCain Able to Skirt Limits of Federal Financing - Matthew Mosk, ... , USA Today Dispute Clouds Revival of Student-Loan Market - Robert Tomsho, Wall Street Journal ($) Questions Surround Student Journalism Contest - Justin McLachlan [more...]

Date: 2008-09-17 16:19:00

Acronyms to watch for: Roubini supports Hillary's HOLC, not RTC/RFC solutions to financial crisis

Here’s a litmus test for whatever Congress comes up with as they huddle with the finance boiz over the weekend: HOLC good, RTC/RFC bad ... , credit cards, auto loans and student loans) while their assets (values of their homes and stocks [more...]

Date: 2008-09-20 19:22:53

The Rest of The (Belated) Week In Review

Didn't get to this yesterday, as I basically played hooky from blog. So I'm cleaning out the closet: • The House voted to strip all federal funding from ACORN in the student loan bill, and there are more such funding strip amendments in the health care markup in the Senate Finance Committee. The "let's strip ACORN funding" amendment will soon become a staple of GOP politics. Only problem is an unconstitutional bill of attainder , but when have laws gotten in a way of a good story. [more...]

Date: 2009-09-22 05:17:00

Six Secrets to Saving Money When You Are Young

Photo courtesy of lrargerich While perusing a few of my favorite personal finance blogs over the weekend I ran across ... and small pile of student loan debt, but no degree.  I thought I was pretty financially savvy [more...]

Date: 2008-09-30 11:00:31

Creating Our First Ever “Real” Budget Was An Eyeopener.

When we started looking at real estate a few months ago and started to get our finances in order to apply for a mortgage, ... Netflix: $9 Student Loan Payment: $121 Total of just the above = $2,946. This does not include stuff [more...]

Date: 2008-09-23 13:00:49

Accepting a down payment

Well I’ve discussed borrowing money from family in times of need, boomeranging home, and finances for a young couple starting out ... they were fortunate to get a $50k gift from a relative to pay off their student loans.  So should ... off debt, take it.  BUT not at the expense of your parents. My roomie will get a paid for wedding [more...]

Date: 2008-11-13 13:00:16

Tip’d: A New Financial Social Media/Bookmarking Site.

There is a new kid on the social bookmarking circuit - Tip’d - and he is here to promote your finance articles to those willing to listen ... impairment to collect SS benefitsMeet The M-Network: An Interview With Dough Roller.Beware The Fake Student Loan Application FAFSA Website.Great site of tutorials for increasing web traffic, adsense [more...]

Date: 2008-10-27 13:00:14

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

Keeping Your Student Loans on a Short Leash

Giveaway - you entered yet? Back to School posts from the College Money Network: This Writer’s Wallet: Get an Internship & ... ! Blog carnivals featuring PTY last week: No Debt Plan: Carnival of Personal Finance #165: College ... . (Figure out how to encrypt this file – this is sensitive info!) Run the Calculator [more...]

Date: 2008-08-14 23:50:44

Automaker Bailout? Sure. Bank Bailout? Let Us Get Back to You.

In America, everyone is equal. But some bailouts are apparently more equal than others ... industry at below-market prices. The $25 billion bailout loan to the automakers was signed ... interest rates, which intensifies the cash shortage. Still, every student of finance is familiar [more...]

Date: 2008-10-01 16:04:45

Proud of My Six-Digit Student Loans

Rants like these about evil student loans (these examples by ToughMoneyLove) are how holier-than-thou people feel about student loans ... private schools. At one point, my loans were well over 100K. Today, I'm in my mid-twenties and debt free ... . That's the problem with one-size-fits-all personal finance. As for risk, Ramsey hates all student [more...]

Date: 2009-01-13 14:20:59

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