Secured Loan, Your Answer to Unwanted Debt

Choose what’s best for you
If you have chosen a secured loan for debt consolidation, there is a process you must follow. Whether you have chosen to apply for a secured or unsecured consolidation loan the processes is similar. The following steps will help you decide on what choice is best [...]

Do plenty of research before choosing a lender.

First Republic Bank Goes Independent

Bank of America agrees to sell
Bank of America says it will sell First Republic Bank, but BofA assures the public that the purpose of the sale is not to meet the government’s capital requirements. The San Francisco Chronicle reports that in May the government ordered Bank of America to raise [...]

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Foreclosed Homes for Sale at Foreclosure Auctions

Foreclosures up, home sales down
Despite the high number of foreclosed properties flooding the housing market right now, both banks and builders in some cases are finding it impossible to sell houses. Reuters reports: “U.S. lenders and builders are turning to professional auctioneers to help them unload the unwanted real estate [...]

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Foreign Fast Food Shows American Appetites are Recession-Proof

Growing fast and furious
Though higher-end restaurants are struggling as people try to scrimp and save, fast food restaurants in the United States are doing as well as ever. In fact, more foreign fast food restaurants are opening locations in the United States, even during this recession.
CNN Money wrote a series [...]

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Standard Hotel in New York Will Ask Guests Not to Strip

What happens at The Standard…
There’s something altogether unsavory about including the phrases “Meatpacking District” and “exhibitionism” in the same sentence, but that’s life in the big city. In other words, that’s how they do things in New York – the Big Apple, the land of movie stars, potholes and scores [...]

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Eddie Cibrian, Brandi Glanville & LeAnn Rimes Can’t Be Wrong

Affairs hurt
There are few things more damaging to a committed marriage than an affair. And there are some people who would argue that it was entirely appropriate that the words “marriage” and “committed” are next to each other in the previous sentence. Those who aren’t certifiably married can understand that. [...]

Royal Restrooms | Business is Booming in Bathroom Business

Royal Restrooms spruce up events
While most companies are experiencing a drop in business as the economy continues its downward spiral, Royal Restrooms has seen business pick up as event organizers try to make the most of dwindling attendance.
It’s easy to figure out why businesses such as debt consolidation and mortgage [...]

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Maria Verchenova | A Beautiful Game

A rising star on the links
In an economically difficult world, it pays to know your assets. If you are in touch with your ambitions, know who you are and what it is you do well, you’ve made an important step toward supporting step toward financial independence. Review your personal checklist [...]

H. Heidelbergensis Discovery and Our Evolution

Discovering our ancestors
What would you do to be able to go back in time and witness the dawn of the human species? We’ve evolved quite a bit since then, and the the means means of barter and financial aid have, too. When once colored rocks may have made for good [...]

“Little Professor” Dom DiMaggio, 92, Has Died

“Run rings around him”
When it came to the baseball-playing DiMaggio brothers, conventional wisdom (and I believe Casey Stengel) stated that Joe DiMaggio was the best hitter, Vince DiMaggio was the best opera singer and Dom DiMaggio was the best fielder. Vincent didn’t have the same Major League success as Joe [...]

April Unemployment: Good News or Bad?

“It was the best of times, it was the worst of times”
I’m trying to decide today whether to focus on the goods news issued in the April ADP National Employment Report or the bad news unfolding right in front of me. The ADP report is being hyped this morning [...]

Microburst Collapses Dallas Cowboys’ Training Facility

Scout Behm paralyzed, coach DeCamillis’ vertebrae fractured
Sports commentators talk about how the Dallas Cowboys have helped themselves with “addition via subtraction” when it comes to departed malcontent players like Terrell Owens. He surely doesn’t need online payday loans or debt consolidation, but his reputation does.
However, a collapse of another kind [...]

Tribeca Film Festival Winners Get a Big Chunk of Change

Miles to go before profit
Four filmmakers from the Tribeca Film Festival will each get a nice, healthy check for $25,000. Of course, considering the amount of money it takes to make a film, most of these people won’t even be able to pay off the personal loans they took out [...]

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Chrysler Bankruptcy Sets Stage for Court War

Down goes Chrysler
America’s big automakers have all been in serious need of cash advance loans and debt relief for some time now. Overproduction of consumer vehicles that burn through gasoline and take up too much room on the country’s current highway system has been the byproduct of poor planning by [...]

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Repair Your Credit | Last Line of Defense (Pt. 4)

What to do when options are few
Welcome back to “Repair Your Credit.” CLICK HERE if you missed part three of this article on how credit repair and a lessened dependence on payday loans can help you to keep your financial boat afloat.
As you look at your balance transfer options, isolate [...]

No Payday Loan for the Golden Years

Our waning hope
According to an April 2009 Gallup poll, for the first time this decade, a majority of non-retired Americans, 52%, doubt they will have enough money to live comfortably once they stop working. We may be able to solve our money worries today with a quick payday loan [...]

Portfolio Magazine Closes | Print’s Death Rattle Continues

One less business magazine on shelves
By now, you probably know that circulation numbers for newspapers and periodicals are down. Numerous newspapers have either called it quits entirely or abandoned newsprint for the online-only format. Among other luminaries of print journalism, Dan Okrent, Edit0r-at-Large for Time, Inc., has sounded off on [...]

Repair Your Credit | Reduce the APR Bulge (Pt. 5)

You can cut your dependence on borrowing
Welcome back. CLICK HERE if you missed part four of this five-part article. Let’s close out this chapter of the “Repair Your Credit” E-book by looking at a few more ways that you can cut down on high-interest revolving credit. The fewer credit cards [...]

I Can’t Pay My Student Loans

The good news: Yes, you can!
Opportunity rich, cash poor, deeply in debt
New college graduates are opportunity rich. But most are unemployed and so cash poor they can’t even get a small payday loan.  Many are up to their ears in debt before opportunity begins to materialize.
But when it comes to [...]

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Repair Your Credit | Debt Consolidation (Pt. 4)

Taking stock of your debts
A key element of how you’ll “Repair Your Credit” is making mountains of debt more manageable. CLICK HERE if you missed the last installment of this article.
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Let’s face it. Managing debt can be a long, slow and tedious process. If you find yourself juggling numerous revolving [...]