Finance

Obama throws an additional $ 3 billion at unemployed foreclosure loans

The Obama administration is pumping $ 3 billion into programs to help the unemployed with foreclosure prevention. The Hardest Hit Fund would going to be doubled with one more $ 2 billion was announced last week to be put into the fund. A Housing and Urban Development program that is intended to help unemployed borrowers ...

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Fastbucks and New Mexico Attorney General in legal scuffle

In New Mexico, the lawsuits are flying between the Attorney General and loan business Fastbucks. Attorney General Gary King filed a lawsuit against Fastbucks. Fastbucks has counter sued. What’s the issue? New regulations on payday lending that Fastbucks fought in court in 2006. The first lawsuit against Fastbucks The lawsuit that started this in New Mexico was ...

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Examples of An Investments at Fire Sale Prices

If only we could find investments these days like this one Warren Buffet found with NAFI back in 1951. With so much financial information at everyone's fingertips today I think it makes opportunities like this a thing of the past - or at least the easy ones. Earnings Per Share $29.02, Book value (liquidation value) ...

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Thoughts on Improving Cash Flow

I spend a lot of idle time thinking about how we can get our personal finances back to the glory days of 2008 for us. Back when we didn't have a larger home, a baby, 2 incomes and all the expenses that come with them. Thats not to say we want to go ...

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Don’t get the Hoodie Footie for Valentine’s Day

The invention of Valentine's Day In 496 AD, Pope Gelasius started Valentine’s Day to honor a couple of Christian martyrs. Feb. 14 happened to fall during a pagan fertility festival. Fast-forward to now, and you’ve got Pajamagram telling us that the hoodie-footie is the perfect Valentine’s Day gift — there are a lot of bad Valentine’s ...

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