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North state marketplace briefs: Jan. 3, 2009 (The Record Searchlight)
Exchange Club receives grant Dentist earns AAID associate fellowship Retirement facility opens doors Security One hosts lecture Construction class offered at college Plastic containers accepted at event
2009-01-03 08:12:53 -
Failed IndyMac Sells for $13.9B (TheStreet.com)
A seven-member consortium agrees to buy the bank.
2009-01-03 09:51:19 -
Adjustable-rate mortgage meant for repairs costs woman her house - Chronicle-Telegram
COLUMBIA TWP. — Evelyn Hunt sits quietly at her kitchen table, a newspaper spread out in front of her and a cup of coffee at hand. It’s when she sits here — where she can glance up and see the cabinets that she helped her former husband hang ...
2008-12-28 02:43:00 -
Keep extra cash to leap at opportunities - Minneapolis Star Tribune
Q We bought a house in August with a down payment of 20 percent and a 30-year, $300,000 mortgage fixed at 6.125 percent. We are making an extra monthly payment per year (we are paying half the monthly amount every two weeks), so the payoff would be ...
2009-01-03 04:02:00 -
Taking advantage or seizing an opportunity? (Anderson Independent-Mail)
Is it ethical to benefit from someone's financial difficulties?
2009-01-03 06:12:52 -
Detox your cash as the year of the hangover takes hold (Independent)
Britons are waking up to the mother of all financial hangovers. A decade of borrowing through mortgages and credit cards has left the combined debt of British households at a mind-boggling £1.3 trillion.
2009-01-03 06:22:12 -
Eagle’s Rest Development files for bankruptcy (Albert Lea Tribune)
Commercial developer Scott LaFavre’s company Eagle’s Rest Development declared bankruptcy last month in U.S. Bankruptcy Court in St. Paul.
2009-01-03 07:00:07 -
International Forecaster January 2009 (#1) - Gold, Silver, Economy + More (GoldSeek.com)
The following are some snippets from the most recent issue of the International Forecaster. For the full 22 page issue, please see subscription information below.
2009-01-03 08:24:35 -
Rockdale aims to keep harmony amid transition (Atlanta Journal-Constitution)
Last week, Richard Oden became the first African- American to lead Rockdale County's government and, along with two other black candidates, the first to win office countywide. Oden's narrow victory in November as County Commission chairman reflects a demographic change that has occurred in Rockdale over the past decade. But the election was relatively quiet and devoid of much of the rancor that ...
2009-01-03 08:48:58 -
A look back at 2008 (The News-Times)
In a year that brought about profound change in the nation's future leadership, a year marked by United States involvement in two draining wars, a year that witnessed the deaths of Nobel Prize-winning authors and Oscar-winning actors, it would be easy to let the year's local stories fall off the radar.
2009-01-03 08:56:13 -
Companies make rebates hard to get on purpose (The Indiana Gazette)
Nathan Womack figures he earned $5 an hour pestering AT&T for a $100 cell phone rebate. ``Some rebates make you jump through hoops and climb ladders,'' the 32-year-old Lafayette, Colo., resident said. ``They certainly don't make it easy.''
2009-01-03 09:06:39 -
The Case for Walking Away - Newsweek
In January, we're supposed to sit down and organize our personal finances. This year I'll risk my good-girl reputation with a subversive idea: go bankrupt in 2009. If you're reaching the end of your rope, don't try to hold on. Save what you can. It's ...
2009-01-03 04:02:00 -
Walking away from a mortgage no longer unthinkable - Palm Beach Interactive
CHICAGO — Diane Shackle found it gut-wrenching to walk away from a mortgage she took out in times that were better for both her and the U.S. economy. But the reality was undeniable: While she was keeping up with the monthly payments, she said she ...
2008-12-28 11:59:00 -
Reasons to be fearful - Guardian Unlimited
A new year is usually a time for hope. But today many of us are full of doubt. The financial crisis has brought wave after wave of bad news, replacing the old certainties with a sense of dread and insecurity. And then there's terrorism, climate ...
2009-01-03 07:23:00 -
Where did all our money go? - Yuma Daily Sun
Hundreds of millions, billions, tens or hundreds of billions, trillions. What's happened to our money? Where did it go? What financial blindness created today's economic disaster? Yet, as bad as it is, careful observers predict that today's fiscal ...
2009-01-03 05:57:00