Holiday Shopping Figures Point To Good News

According to early figures released on Sunday, the 2009 Holiday shopping season was good news for retailers. In contrast to the previous year of 2008, major retailing categories showed modest increases in sales while others were slightly down but still showing an improvement over...

No Upfront Fees For Debt Relief

Starting on October 27, 2010, all debt relief companies must settle for reduce a customer?s credit card or other unsecured debt before they can legally collect a fee. The debt relief provider or counselor can only collect payment is ? They successfully renegotiates, settles, reduces...

Foreclosure Double Standard

Right now there are many people who are experiencing the fact that they owe more on their mortgages than their home is worth. Not only that but with the continued plunge of real estate prices they may not be able to recoup the...

How Would You Fix The Economy?

There seems to be some huge political disagreements about how to handle the current recession. Do we stop spending all together in order to halt the growing national debts? After all, who's gonna pay in the future? Are we mortgaging our kids future?? Or...

Good News On Retail Front For Holidays

Holiday sales over the 2010 season were up more than 4% from last year to approximately $525 billion, as per estimates from the National Retail Federation. And online sales had even more impressive gains with $36 billion in sales for this year alone,...

7 Things you must Know about GST

GST
The goods and service tax is basically an indirect tax or a consumption tax which was imposed on the supply of goods and services in India. It came into effect from July 1, 2017. Replacing the multiple existing flowing...

Eating Credit

Of course, the politicians have it all figured out. The current economic recession, that is. The Democrats know that it was the greedy Wall Street bankers, Goldman Sachs in particular. And the Republicans know that it was the government?s fault, meaning Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. The...

Was ?Flip That House? A Sign Of An Upcoming Mortgage Crisis?

In a 2005 meeting between economists and then Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan as the housing market was continuing to inflate a chief economist named David Stockton remarked about how he had come across a television show where the ?gist of the show was...