Help Your Student Find the Right College Credit Card

If you’re a parent or a guardian of a college student, ... with being a card holder. Yes, the dangers of bad credit can be avoided if youngsters are properly educated ... for students that offer great deals with no annual fees at all. Check credit card review websites [more...]

Date: 2009-01-08 02:36:37

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Mike Folkerth: A Sobering Dose of Reality out of Retail

"The false economy brought on by government-induced inflation and nearly unlimited credit seemed as if it would go on forever… but forever is a ... that towards our credit card balances." - great idea from Doomer AZSALUKI (see comment #4 below ... the U.S. was at risk of sinking into a “depression greater than the Great Depression.” Too bad Mr [more...]

Date: 2008-11-17 15:35:52

10 Tips on Using your Credit Card Wisely

This is a guest post by Andy over at Retire at 40. Check out his great blog and subscribe to his RSS feed here. I’ll admit it. I’m a credit card user. I use it a lot, not everyday, but a lot. Am I wrong? Am I a bad person ... ways why you’re not an automatically bad person if you use a credit card but you must follow them [more...]

Date: 2008-12-25 03:49:57

Current Reading/Listening

A few days before Christmas an old friend of mine emailed me to say that God had put on his heart to send me one of those visa pre-paid credit cards ... .  Not in a bad way.  But it’s all over his music.  He too has a some great melodies.   picture-21 [more...]

Date: 2009-01-16 13:07:53

Building Credit While in the Military

Most people who just join the military are in an enviable position of having very little or no established credit ... to get in the beginning are major credit cards like MasterCard, Visa or Discover. These will allow ... . While this may seem like a bad thing, it actually puts you in a great position to build good [more...]

Date: 2008-12-14 20:41:22

Great Option for a Business Cash Advance

Needing additional capital for your business? Well, I have found another site wherein you can avail of an Unsecured Small Business Loans to help fund ... months, you have accepted credit cards as a payment option, and that your business transacts at least ... . This is an advantage they offer compared to bad credit business loans which usually takes [more...]

Date: 2008-08-31 03:53:00

Emily’s List: 'Poor' musician edition

Happy Friday! Today is the birthday of several music greats; Joan Baez, Jimmy Page, Dave Matthews, and even AJ McLean of the Backstreet Boys ( ... and debt. 1. Everyday Finance explains what your FICO score is and why it matters. Don't feel bad ... of the composer Johann Strauss. This week's credit card roundup of posts from around the personal [more...]

Date: 2009-01-09 15:30:21

The Farce that Launched the Great Depression II

The idiocy never ends. Putting on her best Howdy Doody face, Sheila C. Bair now suggests that a national bank be created to BUY all the bad bank debt! So, our new national bank is to be a repository for all the bad debt. That's not my idea ... 5% credit cards; have no stake holders but we citizens. It would renegotiate or issue mortgages [more...]

Date: 2009-01-17 20:45:37

What the Fed's .50 rate cut means for Helocs & Credit Cards.

I heart CNN like crazy, they are REALLY on top of their ish over there! ... now be a crazy low rate of 4.05%!!! how crazy is that? And you know it's bad out there when my 2nd ... . This means total greatness! Since our Home Equity Line of Credit is tied to the Prime Rate (which [more...]

Date: 2008-10-08 15:12:00

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

Acai-aSlim

Acai-aSlim is a new Acai based diet pill that is being marketed like crazy right now, especially on the internet ... them charge your credit card without you expecting it (again, see the autoship info below). This Acai ... m not saying that acai (as an ingredient) is a bad ingredient (it’s actually a great antioxidant [more...]

Date: 2009-01-12 16:04:56

How Bad Is The Economic Crisis And When Will It End?

In 2008 the world’s financial markets experienced their worst crisis since the Great Depression of the 1930’s !! ... , Canada, Japan, and all the other supposedly advanced economies. Although the present crisis ... ’s credit excesses in residential mortgages, commercial mortgages, credit cards, auto loans [more...]

Date: 2009-01-06 00:00:32

"The Secret Of Failure"

     Isn’t it great when the pundits welcome in the New Year with glad tidings to the effect that “it’s bad now, ... s business by the end of the year and reduce her credit card debt.  Now, these are worthy things ... ?    Hardly.  You see, she was focusing on is things being a little less bad, rather than creating [more...]

Date: 2009-01-08 15:34:02

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 ... prices also dropped a whooping 17.4% from a year ago, a record decline. Along with this bad economic [more...]

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

enter the giveaway. You have a great chance of winning and entering is easy! (c) 2007-2008, That One Caveman, http://www.thatonecaveman ... Your Local Library Is a Valuable Resource One Week Without Cable - The Good and the Bad Early Thanksgiving ... to let little receipts build up into a huge problem.  I just looked at our credit card [more...]

Date: 2008-12-01 13:30:35

Congrats to the Pay It Forward Book Giveaway of Tribes

The GiveList is great idea from Allison Fine and Marnie Webb that is encouraging conversation and other ways to give contributions that aren't ... require getting out your checkbook or credit card and cringing.   It inspired me to do a book ... cash to charitable causes.  The idea is that even if times are bad, you don't have to be stingy [more...]

Date: 2008-12-08 15:58:31

After the Bailout, Bank Stocks are a Bad Deal for Investors Now

The $250 billion bank bailout announced Monday is a great improvement on the $700 billion Troubled Asset Relief Program (TARP) ... have invested in troubled mortgage loans, relics of a home mortgage bubble that should never ... . You haven’t received Uncle Sam’s credit card bill yet. Under the new bailout plan, the government [more...]

Date: 2008-10-17 12:59:00

Benefits of a Prepaid Credit Card

by Mary Bush Anyone who has bad credit due to some misfortune at one time or another in their life knows the difficulty that comes with trying to get a credit card. Even if they are currently in a great job, making payments on time to everyone ... credit card has been almost a saving grace to many. If you can’t qualify for a regular card [more...]

Date: 2009-01-04 17:36:50

Benefits of a Prepaid Credit Card

by Mary Bush Anyone who has bad credit due to some misfortune at one time or another in their life knows the difficulty that comes with trying to get a credit card. Even if they are currently in a great job, making payments on time to everyone ... credit card has been almost a saving grace to many. If you can’t qualify for a regular card [more...]

Date: 2009-01-02 15:54:00

Choosing the Right Credit Card

This article is sponsored by FindCollegeCards.com, a great resource to compare student credit cards ... and theft protection, but in case your card does get stolen, do not risk getting bad credit and don’ ... . Having a credit card of your own is an essential part of life. You are in college [more...]

Date: 2008-09-16 16:38:27

The Great Escape

I managed to get all three of the Spots crated up, in the truck and driven down a snowy mountain road this morning to the drop off place, ... left on schedule, minus one Spot.An escaped Spot and a rejected credit card, that is two bad things ... cabin. The credit card I use solely for construction expenditures and pay in full every month [more...]

Date: 2009-01-14 17:10:00

Acquiring A Great Credit Score

by Mark Cunningham Making a healthy credit grade is serious in today’s society ... can begin obtaining a no credit or bad credit Master Card or Visa. This will be helpful ... to buy luxury items on the credit. It is very easy to get a bad credit score against [more...]

Date: 2008-12-25 08:52:50

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