While we have our government bashing each other on the heads while trying to pass a debt limit increase, looking at unemployment that doesn’t seem to be going down, few new jobs being created, gas prices rising again, the crash of the housing industry, and a host of other issues, I thought it was a [...]
Archive for July, 2011
The flood insurance claims process is relatively simple; you get flooded, you phone your insurer and you register your claim, they assign your case to a loss adjuster who then gets your situation sorted out. But this doesn’t express how hard it can be to go through such a traumatic experience first-hand, and does little [...]
My, we’re in an awful way here in the good ol’ U.S. Seems the federal government is running out of money, state governments don’t have any money, and each wants to take it out on us and business, whether we or the business resides in the state or not. Let’s talk about debt first. More [...]
Are you considering buying your own home? If your savings are still not adequate for the purchase, applying for and getting a home loan would be for you. There are numerous home loan products that are offered across the market. This is to your advantage because you could choose the best one with the most [...]
Purchasing electronic books seems to be the way many people are going these days. Many people see this as an easy way to obtain a book and like that they can read books on their computers, laptops, smartphones and even the tablets and pads. But are ebooks really the most economical thing? Let’s take a [...]
A recent survey showed that a massive 85% of Americans now have cell phones. With the average consumer now so dependent on this technology, the telecom companies are really raking in the cash, but what about the rest of us? How is this reliance affecting us financially and what can we do to ensure that [...]
Last year there were more bank closures than there were in 2009, which was a horrible year. The last time I talked about bank closures, which was around the middle of February, there were 18 closures, and by the end of the month there were 23 for the first two months of the year. Since [...]
