Bailout homeowners first: expert

by Frank James The ever compelling Dr. Nouriel Roubini, ... loans, credit cards, auto loans and student loans) while their assets (values of their homes [more...]

Date: 2008-09-19 13:38:28

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Tell All Tuesday: Options Edition

As far as debt goes, nothing has changed since last week ... the minimum payments on my student loan and the car loan (like I have been doing all along) but next ... , that leaves $437.59 to allocate to one of those debts above its actual minimum. The car loan next [more...]

Date: 2008-10-14 19:10:15

Ask the Readers: How to Cope with Spending Addiction?

Nicki wants to get out of debt, but she can’t — she has a spending addiction. She’s hoping that other Get Rich Slowly readers can give her advice ... loan: $4800 at 8.5% Student loans: $12,500 at 11% (I think) I earn nearly $2800 a month after taxes [more...]

Date: 2008-09-05 12:00:24

A Good Debt Management Program Can Be a Life Saver

by William Blake Do you feel like you are over you head in debts? Many see themselves buried in debt due to car loans, medical bills, student loans, credit card ... program to handle almost any kind of debt, though credit card debts are what most people sign [more...]

Date: 2008-11-11 15:28:58

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

debt consolidation

As we find ourselves living in the credit crunch of a world, ... purposes - we see people using them to pay off high interest credit card debt and student loans ... t also note that unsecured loans are also available. We have seen that debt consolidation loans [more...]

Date: 2008-12-15 15:17:50

Undermining a New Effort to Promote Public Service

Is the U.S. Department of Education deliberately trying to undermine a new program created by Congress to encourage students to pursue careers in ... by consolidating their debt into Direct Lending. The program is a reaction to reports that student ... government will forgive the remaining debt of Direct Student Loan borrowers if they make 120 [more...]

Date: 2008-07-23 18:43:00

Even The MTV Crowd Is Asking About Wealth Redistribution

Here’s a fun two-fer; we have MTV going harder on Obama than any MSM outlet (except Fox News) and he have a new definition of “chump change ... is just looking out for themselves. I mean, the fact is, we just talked about student loans ... do you think we pay for scholarships or loan programs? That money doesn’t grow on trees. It’s got to come [more...]

Date: 2008-11-03 20:28:36

The current price of innocence: $3.7M, as virginity becomes a commodity

The current price of innocence: $3.7M, as virginity becomes a commodity Published by Karl under Idiots, feminism, values at 2: ... herself. So apparently she decided against a student loan. Miss Dylan, from San Diego, California ... have. Student auctions off virginity for offers of more than £2.5 million ($3.7m) Natalie Dylan, 22, claims [more...]

Date: 2009-01-15 10:27:24

$75 user participation survey for those in debt

As I think I have mentioned before, I am working with a company called DebtGoal in development of their product ... in credit card debt At least 2 other types of debt (mortgage, auto, student loan, home equity loan [more...]

Date: 2009-01-10 15:48:20

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

Student Loans By the Numbers

I can’t believe summer is actually over. Where did the time go? As summer comes to a close, it is nice to welcome the start of football season. Let’s just hope my fantasy football team can actually win a game. I’m not excited about the prospects of becoming the Detroit Lions of my fantasy league. First off, I wanted to share this awesome graphic from College Scholarships.org . I’m so glad they shared this with me and I could then share it with my readers: Ask Mr. Credit Cards Spe [more...]

Date: 2009-09-27 22:45:22

How to Make Online Money without any Investment

I started out my home-based business when I was in college. I do not have money to invest on my business. I was also afraid to loan money from the bank because I had student loan already. So, I decided to make online money without investment, but by hard work. I think I am successful in marketing [more...]

Date: 2009-01-15 23:50:45

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

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

FAP893: Happy New Year, 2009-2010 FAFSA, free stuff Listen now: Special Feature: ... file early. Featured Scholarships Student Loan Network $10,000 Scholarship » ScholarshipPoints ... Surveys.com $50,000 Scholarship » Fast Web Scholarships » Disclosure: the Student Loan Network [more...]

Date: 2009-01-01 15:24:53

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

Stanford Law "Escort" Sentenced To Home Detention

There's a little truth to every cliché - and, it turns out, at least one escort was charging for dates to pay off Stanford Law student loans.   San Jose Mercury News :  A Stanford Law graduate was sentenced Monday on a federal tax conviction related to running a high-priced call girl service, punishment that includes restrictions on her ability to keep advertising as an escort while she's on probation. During a hearing in San Jose federal court, U.S. [more...]

Date: 2009-09-29 16:26:00

Tuition hikes, not loan access, should frighten students By Michael Dannenberg Education9 ... Stafford Loan. Every family, regardless of income and credit history, is able to borrow at least $57,500 [more...]

Date: 2008-10-22 04:43:18

Credit Crisis Is Bad News for M.B.A. Students

Credit Crisis Is Bad News for M.B.A. Students By Catherine Rampell … and not just because they will have trouble finding jobs on Wall Street. Some have also just had their student loan options yanked. An e-mail message sent to students Monday at MIT Sloan School of Management: Dear Sloan M.B.A. student, As a result of the nationwide [more...]

Date: 2008-10-07 23:08:38

Leaving The Paycheck to Paycheck Mentality

For all of my adult life, I’ve looked at my money on a monthly basis, and assigned bills to each paycheck ... the car loan, his student loan, and the credit card, our recurring monthly bills are almost exactly [more...]

Date: 2008-11-25 16:09:28

NASFAA's Misplaced Priorities

The National Association of Student Financial Aid Administrators (NASFAA) ... of the student loan industry. This time, the group's focus is on ensuring that lenders and colleges ... Family Education Loan (FFEL) program, Day urged Paulson and Spellings to take "similar effective [more...]

Date: 2008-11-20 19:20:10

How to Eliminate Debt – Debt Consolidation As an Exceptional Method to Get Rid of Student Loan Debt

In these days, getting superior education is critical. Superior education will probably give a higher competitive appointment differentiated of the rest young candidates in the market. Still, in our society almost all good things have a price tag including education. Coinciding with research, education is contemplated as one of the main important investments of the majority of the population; they fund education setting up such as university or college debt. [more...]

Date: 2009-08-19 01:01:07

Uncovering the TARP

Here is part of Treasury Secretary Paulson's prepared remarks this morning ... receivables, auto loans and student loans and similar products. This market, which is vital [more...]

Date: 2008-11-12 17:36:00

Part II: Live-Blogging the Jeff Merkley v. Gordon Smith Debate in Oregon.

Economic question directed at Gordon Smith: He recounts some emotional drivel about how "what we need to do, ... ; those who care about their 401ks, their car loan, their student loan; we have to unfreeze the market [more...]

Date: 2008-10-10 06:00:19

Making a Man Commit and What Does Commitment Mean To A Man

When we think “commitment”, what comes to mind first? Family, a loving husband, children and a picket fence. All-American dream ... that came in highly recommended as providing excellent credit card debt consolidation services ... that she had a huge credit card debt, a student loan that she was at the time looking into a school loan consolidation [more...]

Date: 2008-09-23 06:04:00

Paulson's statement on the failed bail out

This just in straight from the Treasury: September 29, 2008 hp1168 Statement by Secretary Henry M. Paulson, Jr ... more difficult to get car loans or a student loan. I and my colleagues at the Fed and the SEC continue [more...]

Date: 2008-09-30 03:18:27

Green Fees, Revolving Loan Funds and More, Oh My! Meet: Campus InPower

Busta Rhymes laid it out when he rapped, “It’s all about the money, baby” ... that gives student organizers the tools to create revolving loan funds, green fee campaigns ... , water conservation, student sustainability internships and more, these projects all need seed funding [more...]

Date: 2008-11-12 23:08:40

Target Campus-Based Aid

The holidays may be over, but the higher ed community is still waiting to see what Uncle Sam is going to put into its stimulus stocking ... and inefficiency in the federal student loan programs, because that's where big taxpayer savings were ... .  Our bet is it will be much needed tens of billions of dollars, hopefully for both student aid [more...]

Date: 2009-01-07 17:20:05

A "Key" Tactic to Undermine Consumer Protections

Yesterday at Higher Ed Watch, we wrote about how Key Bank has partnered with dozens of unlicensed and unaccredited trade schools to provide ... to regulations carrying out the law, the FTC said that by holding loan providers accountable ... in the private loan promissory notes it provides students [more...]

Date: 2008-12-11 22:00:00

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

Schumer wants student loan market to be protected

Associated Press - October 6, 2008 1:25 PM ET NEW YORK (AP) - Sen. Charles Schumer says particular attention needs to be paid during the current financial upheaval to make sure the student loan... [more...]

Date: 2008-10-06 17:38:39

How To Find Cash Advance Loans Online

by Trinity Taggart If you have extra expenses this month, it may be difficult ... about one business day. If you have decided that you would like to take out a loan of this type ... online, and about private student loans bad credit. [more...]

Date: 2009-01-16 04:46:24

Get a Free Bottle of Suave - Today Only!

Suavenomics As college students, saving money on everything is more important than ever ... all, student loans don’t pay themselves off. Here’s a free beauty offer you will want to take advantage ... , be sure to tell your friends to get theirs too. Copyright © 2009 College Fashion .Net. This Feed [more...]

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

2008 Net Worth Wrap Up

So this is the end of the year and december wrap up for our net worth ... in student loan debt of $8500. Well the year was still really great to us.  We enjoyed many mini ... Mortgage -$441,288.00 -$434,898.04 -$433,450.00 -1.78% Student Loans -$12,750.00 -$21,250.00 [more...]

Date: 2009-01-03 21:00:00

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

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

Vote for Thomas!

UPDATE, 11/19, 3:15p: Last week I asked you to vote for pro-life blogger Thomas Peters to receive a $10k college scholarship ... be able to pay off some loan interest this year. ;-)_______________ November 14: Young Thomas Peters ... off my student loans," Thom wrote. "Which means less stress about paying them off and more time [more...]

Date: 2008-11-14 14:53:35

Sallie Mae Seeks Competitive Bidding

By Jason Delisle and Stephen Burd The Wall Street Journal reported yesterday that Sallie Mae is in a contract dispute with the U.S ... approach saves money for taxpayers. Too bad the student loan giant has rejected this same argument ... decision to put its current Direct Loan servicer, Affiliated Computer Services Inc., in charge [more...]

Date: 2008-09-18 22:02:27

Money Match #5: Erin, Nashville Female Seeking Friends

It's been a while since we had any Money Match posts-- mainly because I totally flaked out and let a couple entries languish in the depths of my ... . This of course is my only form of debt, 54k in student loans. I have no credit card debt, no car payment, etc ... have me showing up on her front porch if I lived in Nashville! Email me at openwallet1 at [more...]

Date: 2008-10-28 13:17:00

Brace Face 2

Well, we've cracked out our calculators and done some discussions. I do have enough for a down payment on the orthodontic work (essentially, 1/3 of the entire cost) left over from my student loan this semester that I was initially going to cancel disbersment of, and work study should be able to take care of the 16 monthly [more...]

Date: 2009-01-10 20:56:00

A Convenient Scapegoat for the Loan Industry

The Bush administration and lawmakers from both political parties are continuing to look for ways to help struggling student loan providers ... ), knowing full well that some of this debt was likely to go into default. While many lenders ... and Access Act -- specifically, the elimination of $18 billion in subsidies to private lenders [more...]

Date: 2008-10-21 20:25:05

Seven Ways to Ruin Your Financial Future

Often times the best way to learn a lesson is for someone to tell you what not to do ... .  Well, in a couple years I had made virtually no dent in the residual payoff balance leaving ... to return to my hometown, changed majors, and was stuck with a pile of student loan debt as my souvenir [more...]

Date: 2008-09-23 11:00:20

Tell All Tuesday - Where Did August Go Edition

I can’t believe it is September already!  I guess that old saying about how time flies when you are having fun is true after all ... towards it.  With our credit card, I just threw an extra payment onto it whenever I earned some extra ... of people have asked about the idea of moving the student loan to a credit card with a 0% transfer offer [more...]

Date: 2008-09-02 19:16:05

___ and you are alone.

___ and you are alone. January 15th, 2009 Decompression Alot of people I know talk about it how they may work on a certain project for a period ... at my college and with a winter break that last’s a month. Even with the best savings I can manage ... started to pay off student loans or anything like that. FUCK {5} INT WINDOW MORNING Just the [more...]

Date: 2009-01-15 18:48:00

Will Bankruptcy Judges Get Power to Strip Down?

The details of the Great Bailout Bill of 2008 are still being mulled, turned over and kicked about by economists, ... of the terms of certain debts, namely auto and student loans and second-home mortgages. Under the Democrats ... of the property falls below the loan amount, debtors potentially could reduce the balance of the loan to equal [more...]

Date: 2008-09-24 15:15:01

Important News for College Graduates

Attention recent college graduates: starting July 1st, ... loan consolidation program. All borrowers with non-consolidation federal student loans that were ... percent can save big money by refinancing their debt after July 1st of this year [more...]

Date: 2008-06-10 20:30:00

An Opportunity to Aid Borrowers

Yesterday, the U.S. House of Representatives pushed through a bill that would extend a previous effort to bail out student loan providers. Before the Senate acts on this legislation, Higher Ed Watch urges lawmakers to view this as an opportunity to come to the aid of financially distressed borrowers struggling with private loan debt [more...]

Date: 2008-09-16 19:25:09

Monetizing Your Website With Google Adsense Is Easier Than You Think

This site is specifically created for those who don’t want to waste time searching for ‘the best solution’ to earn money online ... Debt Consolidation Endowment Purchase Online Student Loan Consolidation Pop Up Displays California ... Mortgage Refinance Rates Accident Helpline Lenders Tree Acorn Stair Lifts Ambulance Billing Secure [more...]

Date: 2009-01-02 00:57:08

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