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Entries from May 12th, 2010
Take a Break from Your Student Loan
May 12th, 2010 · 1 Comment · Student Loans
Tags: budget·Federal Student Loans·Grad Plus·Parent Plus·Pell Grant·Stafford loan·Student Loans
I’m $100K Underwater on My House – Should I Walk?
May 11th, 2010 · 6 Comments · Mortgages, Real Estate
Just over the weekend, I had a conversation with a friend of mine who was very underwater on her home and was seriously considering walking away from her mortgage. She read that a law professor here in Arizona said that people were too worried about morality of paying their mortgage for no good reason. (Crazy [...]
Tags: credit hit·equity line·foreclosure·home values·Homeowners' Exclusion Act of 2007·IRS·payments·pilot program credit card forgiveness·underwater·Walking Away Test
U.S. Economy: Making Sense of March/April Stats
May 10th, 2010 · No Comments · Economy
What can be gauged from the most recent statistics regarding the state of the U.S. economy? Here’s what is revealed in March/April 2010 stats for borrowing, job creation and unemployment.
Tags: Credit card debt·economic recovery·Economy·Unemployment
Credit Crisis – PIIGGS to the Trough
May 7th, 2010 · No Comments · Banking, Economy
We told you so. In a Feb 8, 2010 blog post, we discussed whether it was time to move funds into money markets, as the PIIGS economies had a pretty good chance of taking down the stock market. Maybe you’ve heard about the prediction of a “Double Dip” economy, meaning the credit crunch might not [...]
Tags: Default·economic default·euro·European economy·Germany·Greece·PIGS·PIIGGS·Spain·stock market
