In relative terms, anyway
This recession has put the proverbial shackles on the aspirations of people both rich and poor. The availability of credit is still moving at the pace of a slow crawl, while consumer spending is still searching for a way to pick itself up off the floor. But [...]
Community banks are suffering because of the excess of Wall Street firms
Small businesses are going to need to look into installment loan options as the economy balances itself out. According to Camden Fine, president of the “community banks account for 45 percent of all small business loans. They are the [...]
Wall Street’s involvement
While unsecured personal loans have been around for a while, there are other options investment firms are trying to bring to the economy. Wall Street has plans to save the market, invigorate the economy and quell peoples’ fears of investing. But are they realistically able to [...]
Propped up on toothpicks
Don’t be like that. Be on solid ground. Check out parts ONE, TWO, THREE, FOUR and FIVE.
Jon Stewart set his sights squarely on why Jim Cramer and CNBC didn’t see this financial disaster coming. Why weren’t they prepared? Why couldn’t they prepare us? Read this article series, [...]
Exposing the exposer
The Jim Cramer/Jon Stewart ride ends here now for us. Wall Street punditry has done the average American investor wrong. Keep your eyes open and do your due diligence before taking anyone’s investing advice. Even if you take investing advice – or advice on where to find payday [...]
In which Cramer stuffs and embalms self
This is part three of my study of Jon Stewart vs. Jim Cramer… check out PART ONE and PART TWO first if you haven’t already. Perhaps instead of taking the investing advice of someone like Cramer, you’ll end of using cash advance loans when [...]
Did they know the crash was coming?
This continues my look at Jon Stewart vs. Jim Cramer, the overhyped battle that teaches us that, if nothing else, investors should stay far away from television if they’re seeking sound investment advice. If you missed part one, CLICK HERE.
Jon Stewart took issue with [...]
It began with a Chicago Tea Party
For those of you who don’t know this already, journalism is dead. Or at least mostly dead. The boundary between clear, unbiased reporting and entertainment has been shattered, and too few of us realize that we’ve been walking on broken glass for some time. [...]
Third candidate out of the ring
President Obama’s trouble filling his cabinet appears to be far from over. Three candidates for top positions in the United States Treasury have withdrawn from consideration.
Deputy Treasury Secretary pick H.Rodgin Cohen was the most recent to drop out of the process before he was even officially nominated.
Tangled web
There’s no [...]
Wall Street just doesn’t get it
President Obama may have spoken out against executive pay raises and exorbitant bonuses, but that doesn’t mean that the mavens of Wall Street aren’t still trying to squeeze the money train for all it’s worth.
Joseph Giannone reports for Reuters that annual salaries for bankers, traders [...]
Increasing value of the valueless
It’s turmoil as usual these days on Wall Street.
Sara Lepro reports for the Associated Press that gold prices are winding down as the dollar increases in value. Oil prices are up, cash advance loans are steady and agriculture futures are down.
The United States dollar’s rise in [...]
The impact of the Wall Street collapse
With the collapse of Wall Street, we, Americans, suffer from financial worries and the need for Cash Advances here and there. Wherever we go, recession is the word of mouth. Large companies are shut down, jobs are lost, credit cards balances are multiplying, and [...]
More handouts for Wall Street
Many Americans have found that during a financial emergency, payday loans can help bridge the distance between paychecks. Some have even used the product for educational materials that help them retrain for better jobs. However, in New York (where pay day loans aren’t legal, to the state’s [...]
Payday loans help ease hurt over foreign job loss
Most people see problems that are immediately in front of them and use short-term payday loans to cover against small financial shocks. If they have been laid off, their primary focus is how they’re going to meet expenses and get back on [...]
Shower the people – with tax burdens
A cash advance can rescue you from one of life’s little financial emergencies. However, when it comes to the recent banking system bailout, “little” is not the operative word.
Lemon Socialism
Rescuing the United States banking system – for which both the George W. Bush and [...]
Macy’s, Chili’s and Morgan Stanley make cuts
As promised, your fast payday loan store delivers news on today’s layoffs.
Macy’s heads the pack as far as number of jobs to be cut today. The department store chain announced today that it will ax 7,000 positions. The jobs lost will be a mixture [...]