Do it yourself Credit Repair

by Rob Kosberg You found yourself in a very bad financial situation. You may feel emotional, hopeless, guilty or all of them ... habits. It doesn’t mean a “debt consolidation,” program or a home equity loan .The word is PLAN. Round up all credit reports, bill payment and credit card records, loan and mortgage records [more...]

Date: 2009-01-14 23:18:56

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Devise your own Credit Repair Plan

by Rob Kosberg You found yourself in a very bad financial situation. You may feel emotional, hopeless, guilty or all of them ... habits. It doesn’t mean a “debt consolidation,” program or a home equity loan .The word is PLAN. You will start by collecting all your credit reports, bill payment statements, and credit card [more...]

Date: 2009-01-14 23:53:58

Debt consolidation

As with most Americans there are few things as bad as being deep in debt ... card consolidation. I will need to get the payment on my credit cards back where I can afford to pay ... . Debt Consolidation is one option that I am looking at and I will need to make up my mind quickly [more...]

Date: 2009-01-08 01:39:30

Housing Good News

December 12, 2008 Here’s a piece of good news about the foreclosure mess and the overall bad housing market ... will struggle when the adustable rate (ARM) adjusts in the future. . Further good news on the credit card front – Another friend of mine fell 2 months behind on credit card payments. He had a 5 to 15 year [more...]

Date: 2008-12-13 01:52:23

No, honest, Bill Clinton swears he's really for Obama -- and a female president someday

After weeks of diddling and dawdling doing the statesman-like work expected of ex-presidents combating hunger, disease and other bad things, ... , including rising credit card debt and home foreclosures, the former president said: "Look [more...]

Date: 2008-10-02 14:43:57

5 Fixes for Financial Woes Get Out of Debt Fast

This year we are not in a good shape when we talk about financial status. We expect too much of our farm crop ... and every debt. Include the debtor’s name, the amount of the debt, the interest rate, and the minimum ... . Put “bad” debts, such as unpaid high-interest credit card balances and payday loans – cash loans [more...]

Date: 2008-12-10 04:04:12

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

Why Internet Marketers Love The Global Recession!

Internet marketing experts are thriving today as never before; ... out the storm on credit. Credit card companies are lowering limits and/or raising the interest rates ... -to-Consumer business is just as bad, if not worse. Millions of jobs have evaporated in the past year alone [more...]

Date: 2008-12-31 05:02:24

2008 Debt

Our homeowners insurance company decided to cover all our expenses for the new A/C unit at our house ... that I hope to get this weekend, best news of all NO CREDIT CARDS! All paid with CASH! Click ... I have some bad news to report, the balance on the CITI Premier Pass card is up this month. The current [more...]

Date: 2008-12-31 06:27:58

Why stop with capping payday loans? Banks are just as bad.

Obviously, banks have better lobbyists than payday lenders, why else can someone who has no problem charging $37 ... than $300, yet, credit card balances can be several thousand dollars. Which is worse, missing a payment on a credit card and having your interest rate go from that low intro rate of 15.9% to 29 [more...]

Date: 2008-06-07 13:02:45

Debts..yikes how do i overcome it

It is a human psycology that we spend more than we earn ... , I AM DEBT FREE!!! I thought I was going to have to spend my entire life paying off credit card bills ... for you to start saving money and get out of debt. Even if you have bad credit, debt consolidation [more...]

Date: 2008-09-02 20:03:23

I’ve Become a Victim of the Credit Crunch

I already knew the credit card companies considered me a deadbeat, but I didn’t think I was that bad.  Sheesh ... be at the moment.  I think that’s bull ish.  But I don’t carry a balance, so I can’t really get mad. 4. Navy Federal Credit Union Platinum Visa Limit: $20,000 Thoughts: Always nice to have a credit union [more...]

Date: 2009-01-08 11:12:43

Personal Loans for Scary Times

The Excorist and The Texas Chainsaw Massacre combined aren't as scary as the current economy ... consolidation, credit card and personal. Better yet, they offer customers quick, no hassle loan ... , there are no application fees, and they offer nationwide services. If you find yourself in a bad credit [more...]

Date: 2008-10-06 13:40:25

Charity Requests

The new year usually results in a lot of bad moods. It's understandable -- this is the time of year when most folks begin diets, quit smoking, give up alcohol, return to the grind of the day job, see the balance on their credit cards soar ... it's January, and everyone is in a bad mood, and many of you are also being flooded with requests [more...]

Date: 2009-01-09 05:00:00

Stack: A lifeline for those niche indie magazines

Here's a great take on the online magazine subscription site. It used to be the sign of a clueless publisher - a website with nothing but a credit card form ... ' magazine Electric Sheep, counterculture bible Arthur and Bad Idea, which bills itself as 'the magazine [more...]

Date: 2009-01-09 19:15:40

The Big Bank Job: The Insanity of the $700 Billion Giveaway by Michael Hudson

Dandelion Salad Sent to me by Jason Miller from Thomas Paine’s Corner. Thanks, Jason ... will get rid of their bad mortgages, and also their bad car loans, furniture time payments, credit-card loans [more...]

Date: 2008-09-28 10:05:07

8 Bad Things You’re Teaching Your Kids About Money

This is a guest post from Jonathan, one of the writers at Master Your Card ... readers to get out (and stay out) of credit card debt. If you’re a parent then you probably ... something. Once they understand this they might actually start turning the lights off when they leave [more...]

Date: 2008-11-28 16:34:36

How to Replace Bad Financial Habits With Good Ones

This is a guest post from Leo Babauta of Zen Habits. His first book, The Power of Less, was recently published by Hyperion ... situation? Some ideas: Impulse spending. Overuse of credit cards or other debt. Spending without tracking ... stem from our financial habits. Bad financial habits lead to overspending, too much debt, a house [more...]

Date: 2009-01-14 13:00:09

Yet another credit card offer

Well, either the economy isn’t as bad as its cracked up to be or Wall Street doesn’t care that I was out of work for two months. I got an offer for a Discover card in the mail today. [more...]

Date: 2009-01-14 03:24:20

Goldman Sachs Predicts Loan Losses Will Top $2 Trillion

Despite all the hoopla about stimulus plans and bailouts rescuing Americans’ home equity and retirement accounts, ... — the losses that investors and financial institutions are potentially sitting on from bad loans… ... of $780 billion. Add in losses from commercial real estate, credit cards, auto debt and business [more...]

Date: 2009-01-15 23:05:05

Financial Plan for 2009

This year has been a rocky year for me.  The stock market took a tumble.  I never did find a full time job to replace my income ... more next year without cutting off circulation to my legs. While paying off my credit card debt, I need ... . Ideally, I’d love to eliminate $13,000 of my bad debt in 2009.  It’s possible if I find another [more...]

Date: 2008-12-30 13:00:52

CR Retirement Survey: Planning ahead may be just as risky as rewarding

The Press - January 12, 2009 In the wake of big investment losses, ... on entertainment. About one-third have cut their credit card use and spent less on groceries and household goods. “When bad investments happen to good people, they have to work harder to slash debt [more...]

Date: 2009-01-13 22:42:30

Bullets?

This crazy mobile admin interface won’t let me do bullets, at least not automatically. So this will probably be a confusing, discombobulated post. ( ... t touch my credit cards so I don’t have to worry about I’d theft, and what they did steal is just “stuff” ... ! Just totally crazy kids… Makes me feel bad for their regular teacher! -when I was in the [more...]

Date: 2009-01-15 18:11:58

Making a list, checking it twice…

Ah, I do love making resolutions. I generally revise them on a monthly basis – goals are good! – but here's a snippet of what I'm plotting for 2009 ... some more friends who enjoy playing board games. 7. Part ways with the credit card, for good. Learn to love ... the fact that this resolution is already off to a bad start. 11. Catch up the number of [more...]

Date: 2009-01-02 14:26:51

Show me the money

A good friend and entrepreneur was chatting with me on her phone, while in the post office checking her mail ... . She also includes information on how to make a payment online with a credit card. On the due date ... . A recent study found that businesses wrote off $152.5 billion in bad debt in 2007, based on IRS [more...]

Date: 2008-07-15 13:24:04

Lala Land

Blink and you may miss another government bail-out, loan guarantee, federal plan to alleviate a bad or unwise mortgage, a suggestion for more government funds for a more aggrieved constituency, or credit-card relief proposal, etc. All this is said to be smart and necessary, given that we are told that the problem [more...]

Date: 2008-12-16 00:47:41

A La Carte (1/7)

On Our Watch Ray Ortlund has six valuable suggestions on how to combat the shocking biblical illiteracy that exists in the church today ... I almost feel bad linking to this as the deal somehow just seems wrong. But here it is. "If you sponsor a child online today and make your first month's payment by credit or debit card, you'll receive [more...]

Date: 2009-01-07 13:27:00

Great Creepy CRM video

I found this brilliant CRM video on Michael Seaton’s blog “The Client Side” and thought it was too good not to re-post ... . The problem is that its not all make-belief. Credit card companies, grocery food chains ... by this video.  Smart technology doesn’t make a company bad, bad people do. [more...]

Date: 2009-01-16 03:28:05

Farewell 2008

Every new year gets me thinking… So what have I done this year? Did I get anywhere? How was it? ... of jobs outside of academia, and two full credit cards… and a painting not to mention a slightly uneasy ... it behind me.  Age 35. I guess all things considered, I am not doing too bad. But I wonder, what does [more...]

Date: 2009-01-16 02:54:41

One-Stop Shopping Calamity

The news that Citigroup is considering selling half its Smith Barney brokerage unit to Morgan Stanley is seen as evidence that Sandy Weill's plan for ... from one financial institution. Credit cards, checking accounts, mortgages, brokerage services ... a one-stop financial shop is officially dead. But the financial supermarket is the bad idea [more...]

Date: 2009-01-12 18:00:00

New Congress Looks To Add Mortgage Debt To Bankruptcies - BIG MISTAKE

Congress So we have finally flushed most of the bad debt out of our system in 2008 ... modify other unsettled obligations, such as credit card debt. While the housing market downswing ... problem on the horizon is that Congress is back in session today. Instead of looking at 2009 [more...]

Date: 2009-01-06 14:51:56

Rebuild your nest egg - 17 moves to secure your future now

Consumer Reports - January 2009 When bad investments happen to good people, there's only one thing to do short of weeping: Turn to Plan B ... and household goods. About 20 percent have paid off most or all of their credit-card debt ... and making choices we'd hoped to avoid. We might have to work harder to slash debt, cut spending [more...]

Date: 2009-01-13 22:42:30

Bailout Gets More Costly Due to “Bipartisan” Deal; Foolish Limits on Foreclosure Should Be Removed

Liberal Congressional leaders have apparently reached a deal with the Bush Administration on the principal elements of a $700 billion bailout of the ... student loans, car loans, credit card debt and any other ‘troubled’ assets held by banks.” ... have stuck taxpayers with 100 percent of all losses on any bad loan or mortgage, but not the profits [more...]

Date: 2008-09-28 20:34:55

BANKS FACE ANOTHER BAD YEAR IN 2009

Rising loan losses, the threat of more regulation and tougher competition adds up to another year of poor profits for banks BY DAVID ELLIS ... a significant deterioration in the health of their credit cards and home equity loan portfolios ... and business loans are starting to surface as well. “There is loan quality deterioration across [more...]

Date: 2008-12-22 15:14:10

Ohio School Funding Has Me Seeing Red Today, Literally

It’s no wonder school funding in Ohio makes folks see red. What I got in my mailbox today, did, literally ... today from the Ohio Department of Taxation. This bad boy is all orange, red and scary. One minute you’ ... . We’re just trying to get the credit card balance back to zero after Christmas. The Four Horseman [more...]

Date: 2009-01-10 20:24:00

Host Unlimited Bandwith - The Good And The Bad

It seems that almost everyone you come across has their own web page ... wishing to conduct business on line, you should think about such things as shopping carts, credit card ... on the web, you should seek advice from someone technically competent to guide you on what’s needed to effect [more...]

Date: 2009-01-15 14:28:07

BABY STEPS TO ‘PEACE-OF-MIND’ FINANCIAL MENTAL HEALTH

BABY STEPS TO ‘PEACE-OF-MIND’ FINANCIAL MENTAL HEALTH January 15th, 2009 No Comments 1) Begin to pay off all revolving credit cards. House mortgage and car loans can be factored into monthly financial obligations. 2) Put your “ ... for what you have. Gratitude can cure cancer and bad attitudes. 5) Ask someone every day, “What can I do for you?” 6) [more...]

Date: 2009-01-15 17:55:16

Medical debt adding to credit crisis and economic problems

For me this is one of the most disgraceful aspects of the Republican control in America ... led them to amass a pile of credit card debt and forced them to refinance the mortgage on their house ... where someone either went into debt or feared going into debt so opted for no health care or a bad [more...]

Date: 2008-10-30 05:57:01

Bank Loan Stats: The Good, The Bad & ........

The Federal Reserve's survey of loan quality for U.S. commercial banks is in. Bottom line, it's still all about residential housing delinquencies and charge-offs, which remain ugly and are killing the banks. Surprisingly to some, credit card delinquencies and losses are holding up reasonably well, [more...]

Date: 2008-11-19 02:12:16

A perfect storm: the UK’s next banking crisis

The UK has recently undergone a banking crisis, the reasons for which have been much analysed, ... are predominantly made up of credit card debt against households which are breaking all records for indebtedness ... potential in profitable times    All of this means banks are facing wave upon wave of bad debt [more...]

Date: 2009-01-06 12:31:36

Consolidating Debt

With the bad market now, a lot of people turn to get help to consolidate debt ... or pay off credit card bills. By the way, various programs are available for consolidating debt ... that is applicable to you. Technorati Tags: Debt,Consolidation,Credit Problem [more...]

Date: 2008-09-18 19:32:03

Obligatory Look Ahead at 2009

Now that I’m high on accomplishment, time to voice my intentions for 2009. Money ... that last credit card. Fully fund my Roth IRA for 2008. Determine how and where it’s prudent to combine ... I spend and where it goes. I hope and expect that this year will be the year that I go from bad-debt [more...]

Date: 2009-01-05 01:05:56

Is It A Good Or Bad Thing That So Many Companies Are Going Out Of Business?

What exactly will 2009 bring us in terms of businesses closing down for good? ... $2.56 trillion in consumer debt, with the average household’s credit card debt amounting to $8,565 ... filing for bankruptcy or are already in it, so we won’t know if some of them make [more...]

Date: 2009-01-06 14:00:00

Avoid Payday Loan

If you spend more than you earn on a regular basis, it is a bad practice ... to borrow a loan, so you can save 15-30 USD by not paying the loan interest! • Use your credit card ... companies often make use of your needs and leads you into the debt trap. The most obvious drawback [more...]

Date: 2008-12-04 12:36:55

Understanding Second Chance Banking

by Lianne Gaines With the economic decline raging, a lot of folks have found themselves in either short-term or long-term economic trouble. Unfortunately, these troubles can haunt you across many aspects of your life. Too many individuals do not realize that there are ways to navigate around these financial troubles. Be it bad checks, credit debt, or lack of health care, there are resources that will get around, or at least alleviate whatever is blocking you from achieving a better financial outlook. [more...]

Date: 2009-09-29 10:39:14

Gossip Girl : Sold! To the Man in the Purple Tie [Power Rankings]

As my momma used to say, secrets don't make friends, but they make for great enemies and terrific currency. Last night the Upper East Side was full of loose lips, sinking ships, and the most ghetto Southeby's auction ever. It was really just a lame excuse to get all the characters in the same room so that "Scott" could fess up about his identity with another lie, Serena could diss old enemy Georgina, Chuck and Blair could make up, and Vanessa could wear another heinous outfit out in public. [more...]

Date: 2009-09-29 16:26:24

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

College Students And Credit Card Debt

According to an adviser at a major university, more students drop out of college due to average college student credit card debt than to academic failure. The best way to prevent this is to adopt a spending plan early in your first semester, and stick to it. One thing that you know when you’re a student, that you were most of the time. Unless you have really rich parents or have a trust fund with your name, you know, as a student you should not go much for it in the finance department. [more...]

Date: 2009-09-29 10:12:54

Marijuana activist Emery surrenders to court, awaits extradition

That’s a good man being sent down there, for ridiculous prohibitionist laws. And mostly to appease the US at that. You can watch a documentary on Marc and his anti-prohibition activism here . You can learn who ships in the actual hard drugs here. Flashback: Vancouver pot activist Marc Emery to plead guilty to U.S. drug charge | The Post editorial board: Emery should be a free man | Canada “Prince of Pot” reaches deal on U.S. [more...]

Date: 2009-09-28 20:48:55

Rich Dad’s Guide to Becoming Rich…Without Cutting Up Your Credit Cards

The real trick to building personal wealth is learning how to transform ‘bad debt’ into ‘good debt.’ This quick-hitting book explains how-without having to cut up credit cards. This is the eighth book in the phenomenally successful Rich Dad series. This book was originally published as an e-book and now joins the Rich Dad series in trade paperback format. About the Author Robert Kiyosaki founded an international financial education company and invented the board game Cashflow. [more...]

Date: 2009-09-29 04:38:06

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