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How are you coping with high gas and food prices? (Montgomery Advertiser)
No vacations, no eating out, no watering the lawn. Clipping coupons, parking the gas guzzler, brown-bagging it, cutting up the credit card.
2008-07-18 02:04:20 -
'I hate lawyers' mortgage brokers (The Globe and Mail)
Websites offer foreclosure victims comic relief
2008-07-18 05:37:48 -
No Atheists in Foxholes - No Libertarians in Financial Crises - Seekingalpha.com
Someone this week asked me what I thought of policy-makers who ex ante profess a free-market ideology and acute sensitivity to the dangers of moral hazard from financial bailouts, but who toss that ideology overboard when faced with a financial ...
2008-07-18 12:43:00 -
Fannie and Freddie damned - Financial Times
The rescue of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac announced by Henry Paulson, US Treasury secretary, on Monday was the inevitable consequence of the “market-isation” of banking that has transformed central banks from lenders of last resort to buyers of ...
2008-07-17 12:04:00 -
Jeremy Warner's Outlook: Inflation is rising and growth is falling. Is ... - The Independent
To judge by some of the language, you'd think the International Monetary Fund had joined the gloom and doom merchants now gleefully proclaiming the start of a next Great Depression. In its latest economic assessment, the IMF says the global economy ...
2008-07-17 05:12:00 -
Bank returns check written in Spanish, then charges late fees - Miami Herald
Q. In early January, I sent my mortgage payment to Washington Mutual but, on Jan. 23, they returned it. It came with a letter, dated Jan. 16, saying that it was returned because the check was made out in Spanish. In the three years that I've had the ...
2008-07-17 11:50:00 -
Google growth not as strong as expected - Everett Herald
Google Inc.'s earnings growth bogged down more than investors anticipated during the second quarter, raising worries that the ailing U.S. economy is starting to touch the Internet search leader. Although Google's management maintains the company will ...
2008-07-17 11:53:00 -
US stocks head for moderately lower open ahead of inflation reading ... - Chicago Tribune
NEW YORK (AP) _ U.S. stocks headed for a moderately lower open Wednesday as oil prices fell and investors awaited a key reading on inflation.The decline in stock futures comes a day after Wall Street closed mostly lower on continuing worries about ...
2008-07-16 05:25:00 -
Option ARM loans aren't all bad - Boston Globe
Inman News The memory of a no-nonsense conversation, held more than a decade ago, hit home then and is vivid today. "This probably would not be the loan for a person who planned on making just the minimum payment every month," said the Washington ...
2008-07-14 05:59:00 -
30 Days, 30 Ways To Save: Is A Reverse Mortgage For You? - WOAI
Rising gas and food costs, banks in trouble and record foreclosure rates. Many people are facing hard economic times, including older people on a fixed income. "A reverse mortgage might be a way for you to not struggle anymore," says Norma McCarty, a ...
2008-07-15 06:19:00 -
Credit Lines FREEZE, But Not For Reverse Mortgages - HULIQ.com
The “comfortable income” many seniors thought they had planned is often eroded by rising costs and incomes which don’t keep pace with those costs. Are there any guarantees anymore... Life doesn’t hold too many real guarantees anymore. Seniors ...
2008-07-17 01:59:00 -
State audit criticizes Cornelius nonprofit - Oregonian
Open Door Counseling Center, a Cornelius nonprofit running the only homeless day shelter in Washington County, suffers from weak accountability, conflicts of interest and questionable hiring practices, according to a recent state audit. While the ...
2008-07-17 05:48:00 -
Spokane-based Potlatch to spin off tissue, paperboard - Seattle Times
Spokane-based Potlatch, the timber producer and largest private landowner in Idaho, said its board has approved a previously announced plan to spin off its tissue and paperboard business from its forest holdings. The pulp-based business, to be called ...
2008-07-17 11:53:00 -
Willingboro OKs $300,000 deal with Kittrels (Burlington County Times)
WILLINGBORO - Drawing protests from residents, the Board of Education approved a $300,000 settlement with former school Superintendent Alonzo Kittrels by a 5-4 vote late Monday night.
2008-07-16 04:35:47 -
Out & About (Daily Breeze)
Things to do around the South Bay and Harbor Area
2008-07-16 11:51:31