Archive for April, 2009
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Sallie Mae’s 2009 study of credit card use shows that students just love binging on plastic. Kids these days have more than four cards on average, and most of them carry a balance pushing $3,000. Many don’t tell their parents, and almost a fifth graduate with more than $7,000 of debt. This is how meltdowns [...]
Media Alert!!
Tonight at 6pm eastern LIVE on www.radioasb.com we’ll be on the Carl Sabatino show “New York Saturday Night”. We’ll be shooting the breeze with Carl about some funny business stuff. Actor Danny Aiello and music man Ben E. King will also be guests. So if you’ve got the computer on listen to everyone’s favorite internet [...]
Landlord Asks Mother To Pay "Early Termination Fee" After Son Fails To Honor Lease By Dying [Early Termination Fees]
Debbie Eckert cleaned out her son’s apartment after he died in a February fight, but the landlord, CCRT Properties of Brookfield Wisconsin, thinks she should pay several months rent and an early termination fee. The Wisconsin Department of Consumer Protection says that CCRT can pursue the 24-year-old teacher’s estate, but that they have no right [...]
How Accurate Are Credit Score Estimators? [Credit]
Did you try Bankrate’s score estimator when it was featured on the Consumerist two years ago? I did and I wondered how accurate that 12-question quiz was. Answer? Not bad.
Budget 2009 Round Up – Enable Finance Supporting Business
Supporting Business
The financial crisis has caused a steep and synchronised global downturn. Government support, alongside action to restore the flow of credit in the financial system, is helping businesses across the UK.
More Crappy News; Stocks Don’t Care
The big he said – he said – he said game is going to go on now for awhile amongst Mssrs. Lewis (CEO of Bank of America), Paulson (former Secretary of Treasury who now lives at some bird sanctuary in the South while his kid spends the family fortune trying to get a Pro Soccer [...]
Time Warner Shuts Off Heavy User’s Account With No Warning [Time Warner Cable]
While they’ve temporarily shelved metered broadband plans, Time Warner is cutting off, with no warning, the accounts of customers who they deem have used too much bandwidth. One such customer lives in Austin, TX, one of the original markets slated for metered broadband. Stop The Cap has the story, and an excerpt is inside.
Perfect Stupidity Storm Forming Over Financial System Today!
What Are You Going To Use Your Tax Refund For This Year? 28% Say "To Pay Off Debt" [Personal Finance]
The comparison shopping website PriceGrabber.com just completed its “what are you going to do with your tax refund?” survey for the second year in a row, and not surprisingly there are some notable differences between last April and now. The biggest change is among those who plan to spend the money: it was 44.0% in [...]
At Least Now I Know Why Ken Lewis’s Head Always Looks Like it’s About To Explode!
Dear Lord, poor Ken Lewis Bank of America Pressured to Buy Merrill Lynch. Around December of last year it looks like he got the financial equivalent of being thrown into a L.A.Crip prison cellwearing red!First he had to deal with John Thain, who obviously had been completely bullsh*tting Lewis since September. A few months ago [...]
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