Quango Irish Bank.

So, starting close to home, finally, it’s Anglo Irish Zero ... under its hood – you can’t pretend the bill isn’t yours – and, overnight, the Irish national debt ... encumber the State with a truly huge amount of total junk – the problem is that they're probably going [more...]

Date: 2009-01-16 02:21:50

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Capmark Funds $62M for Pair of Connecticut M-F Properties

Capmark Finance Inc. has originated a total of $62.4 million in permanent, fixed-rate debt through its Fannie Mae DUS program for the refinancing of two Connecticut multi-family properties. Commercial Property News - Northeast Realestate News [more...]

Date: 2009-01-15 11:53:00

Three Bizarre Reasons You Might Need a Fast $5,000 Signature Loan

by Mark Matthews The winters in my state are especially heavy, and if it snows too much for too long, ... 32″ low def right? Your current TV is a party killer for sure, and there’s only one solution ... in their checking account. Going into debt is never the ideal scenario - and these three situations are totally [more...]

Date: 2009-01-14 20:49:21

Harper’s retrospective on the Bush era

Bush will be givning his last address to the nation tonight.  I won’t be watching ... debt and accrued obligations: $10,350,000,000,000 Total value of U.S. government contracts in 2000 [more...]

Date: 2009-01-15 23:30:45

my new studio

Now I've gone and done it. In the midst of the financial crisis and global markets melt down which has totally effected our lives ... two kids to feed, a mortgage, credit debt I could go on an on with the giant list of bills — did [more...]

Date: 2009-01-15 22:43:31

Widow Shrieks Bloody Murder: Debt Collectors Murdered My Husband

Dead Guy Video The era of complete and total disregulation of the financial violence industry has created a new class of predator, the debt collector, often a third party speculator who buys blocks of debt at a discount and sends bounty hunters out to collect on it, using tactics that would make Ghenghis Khan vomit blood. [more...]

Date: 2009-09-25 01:54:57

Shrink Your Debt

From Entrepreneur.com : In general, the best choices for debt negotiation and settlement are unsecured loans and credit cards. Since there is no collateral that can be attached to satisfy the debt, creditors are more likely to negotiate to avoid writing off the entire debt. The two most common approaches for debt negotiation are to pay a lump sum that is less than the total amount owed, or to restructure the payment schedule with lower monthly payments. [more...]

Date: 2009-09-14 14:00:00

Debt Consolidation: Now’s the Time

By: Catherine Brock The Roman Empire fell in 476, and the Berlin Wall came down in 1989 ...  out your debts and their respective rates. With the help of a credit card payoff calculator, compute the total ... to combat inflationary pressures. Domino effect If interest rates do rise, credit card debt and debt [more...]

Date: 2008-06-23 15:08:21

Wall Street Breakfast: Must-Know News

GMAC a bank, at last. GMAC (GKM), owned by General Motors (GM) ... must restructure $38B of debt, GM must reduce its stake to less than 10% in voting shares and total ... in the holding company of the Boston Red Sox. Times has been rumored for months to be open to selling non [more...]

Date: 2008-12-26 12:03:38

I WANNA A NEW DRUG... ONE THAT WON'T MAKE ME SICK

Some may say this is a bit of a rant, but I believe it needs to be said, and it's my blog, so I will say it ... 2.  Credit card debt is at an all-time, unsustainable high 3.  The banking industry is in total meltdown ... and wait to see what happens?   I'd like to offer another alternative... Pay Attention!  Each [more...]

Date: 2009-01-15 15:52:31

Approved

Congress OKs release of final $350B of bailout- AP “Congress laid the foundation for President-elect Barack Obama’s economic recovery plan on ... for the financial industry while majority Democrats proposed spending increases and tax cuts totaling a whopping ... but balance sheet solvent if it holds illiquid assets, particularly against short term debt. [more...]

Date: 2009-01-16 00:29:11

The Better Place for Debt Consolidation

Having a lot of debts is surely confusing and might cause us a serious headache. There are many companies or individuals have suffered from such financial burdens and many of them have also experienced a total bankruptcy. In order to get rid of these financial burdens and gain a better life out of the debts therefore we absolutely need strategic steps. One reliable source of information that can be your best reference to have a debt free living can now be found in Debtconsolidationbenefits.com. [more...]

Date: 2009-06-01 02:16:24

Pre-budget report at a glance

Fiscal stimulus • Overall fiscal stimulus package worth £20bn by April 2010Tax revenue • Tax revenue from financial sector down 35% this yearSpending ... to total £35bn by 2010-11Borrowing • Borrowing to rise to £78bn this year, and £118bn next year • Debt [more...]

Date: 2008-11-24 16:00:51

Rio Tinto Reduces Debt – Analyst Blog

Rio Tinto PLC ( RTP ), the heavily indebted miner, has now cashed in over $7 billion in total by selling its non-core assets after its merger with Canadian aluminum group Alcan. Last week, Rio agreed to sell its Alcan composites business to Switzerland's Schweiter Technologies for $349 million. The deal is expected to close by the end of the year. The company targets to sell $15 billion in assets to lighten its debt burden it piled up from the $38 billion acquisition of Alcan in 2007. [more...]

Date: 2009-09-25 19:18:01

Wall Street bailout plan to include more than bad mortgage debt: Feds to absorb unpaid bar bets, inadvertently laundered postage stamps, unredeemed soda cans and insufficient tooth-fairy disbursements

Totally absurd? Think twice: In the dark of night over the weekend when most people were snoozing, the Treasury dramatically expanded its bailout plan to include buying student loans, car loans ... in draft language that also opened the bailout program to foreign banks with extensive loan operations [more...]

Date: 2008-09-23 06:05:06

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

Tight budgets and corrections priorities

Federal budget numbers are always flabbergasting to me and I can only react with awe to the news that the 2009 federal deficit totaled $1.2 TRILLION, with a big, fat, capital "T."Most state budgets including Texas, OTOH, must balance themselves or else request specific debt approval from voters in bond elections, so state budgets [more...]

Date: 2009-01-07 17:34:00

Indian Debt Collectors Feel Sorry for Americans

Debt collection of American consumers is one of the fastest-growing sectors in Indian outsourcing. "It's like people are totally drowning," said collector Omkar Gadgil, 24, who goes by the alias [more...]

Date: 2008-10-15 13:01:22

10 Tips on Saving Money

Tip 1 ” Although credit cards are a convenient way to pay for things they can lead to trouble if you cannot afford to keep up with the total repayments. Interest on credit cards is often offered at an extremely low rate for the first few months and increased dramatically therein after. Debt can quickly spiral out of control and become unmanageable for many people therefore it is sometimes necessary to consolidate all of the debt into one manageable package by engaging in one small low cost loan. [more...]

Date: 2009-09-19 11:18:31

WHEN YOU GO BANKRUPT

by Bart Icles The total nation is currently confronting a joyless mercantile situation. As we have been using out of funds, it competence be beneficial to have a Chicago failure counsel by your side so we can begin meditative about a uninformed start. The Chicago failure law was upheld to assistance honest people have a brand new begin by a rejecting of many of their debts. The law additionally allows people to compensate their debts over an lengthened length of time. [more...]

Date: 2009-09-26 10:13:17

The Sad Tale of Gansel and Hetel

The plight of Hansel and Gretel is known to many but have you ever heard the sad story of Gansel and Hetel? Two middle class kids “adrift” in the consumerist shopping mall culture take a bath in debt and almost ruin their lives… can they be saved? Bad Health & Bad Luck Gansel and Hetel had it rough growing up with divorced parents.  Their dad didn’t take care of his health and didn’t buy enough life insurance so their mom was left to raise them totally alone after he passed away.  [more...]

Date: 2009-09-29 12:57:44

Corporate Debt Issues Continue the Recovery

Nine companies — from Amgen to Staples — have announced bond and note offerings since Monday, with a total of more than $14 billion. [more...]

Date: 2009-01-15 19:00:00

Credit Card Minimum Payments, More or Less

I have been a member of the Dave Ramsey Total Money Makeover forums for over two years now, and in that time I’ve made several virtual friends, and read many inspiring stories of families who clawed their way out of debt.  I recently read a comment from a new member working their way through baby step two–the dreaded debt snowball [more...]

Date: 2008-10-07 11:00:37

Oh those No Spending Days

Since Saturday I have managed a total of 4/5 days as no spending days! Wow does it feel good. Correction, it feels great! ... incredibly warm, relaxing, mellowing about not spending. Firstly it means you haven’t increased your debt ... , it means you’re avoiding the shops and rushing around to get petrol, milk, gifts for people, pay bills [more...]

Date: 2009-01-14 19:26:29

Bailout Response

This week our country decided to bailout the economy with a $700 million in aid to lenders so there wouldn’t be a total collapse ... it is about financial loss or profit. In America we have cultivated an attitude of consumer spending that has led to consumer debt.  Not only do we have national debt increasing, but household debt [more...]

Date: 2009-01-14 06:55:55

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

16 things about me….

This is a tag going around, here too, and I thought I would play along. I am a total perfectionist ... evaluations a problem at times. This is definitely something that I am trying to get better ... 2008, the boy and I got out of debt!  We lived on half off what we made to make it happen [more...]

Date: 2009-01-15 00:41:20

The Quest to Eliminate Debt

I am glad to report that we are definitely seeing the light at the end of the tunnel from where we are at ... and I collectively have a total of four credit cards, minus the supplementary card, which generates ... one of the reasons why we paid off the aforementioned credit card balance. Before the next cycle [more...]

Date: 2008-07-16 11:05:42

RMC collectwhatever can kiss my butt.

I keep getting these totally ignorant phone calls from some collection agency about my Verizon bill. They claim that I owe Verizon, well them now because they bought the debt, the amount of $781.95 ... , they refuse to send me a paper notice of this debt, refuse to give me any kind of information [more...]

Date: 2008-11-04 02:17:23

ACORN Owes Millions in Taxes

by Amanda Carpenter, Townhall An intrepid researcher has discovered more than 200 tax liens totaling more than $3 ... for Reform Now for unpaid taxes since the late eighties. A tax lien is issued when a person or organization fails to pay taxes and that tax debt is considered seriously delinquent. A lien is only issued [more...]

Date: 2008-10-28 20:29:35

Put Chrysler Back In Christmas

It's official: General Motors Corp. and Chrysler LLC will get $13 ... for a total of $17.4 billion in assistance, according to a statement from the Bush administration ... the government access to financial records and not issue dividends until the debt is repaid. The government [more...]

Date: 2008-12-19 14:32:00

Mary Lou Writes In And Wants To Know “Why Does My Credit Score Keep Going Down?”

Mary Lou wrote to me through the GetOutOfDebt.org site and asked the following question. If you have a credit or debt question you’d like to ask just use the online form. I’m happy ... on one credit card and $7,300 on my car for a total of $12700. In January 2008, I owed over $26000 [more...]

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

Hate Myself!

I was totally caught at hello! Because of my busyness and doing a lot of things both online and offline, ... badly! Remember my post yesterday? My goal was to be debt free and now this! After knowing [more...]

Date: 2009-01-15 16:04:11

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