Month: September 2008

Below are all the posts archived for the month.

How much will my credit score dip if I miss a payment?
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Everyone knows that their credit score will take a hit if they miss their credit card payments or max out their credit cards. A lot of people find themselves in such situations and wonder how badly their credit score will be hit. While the exact drop in your credit score will depend on your particular
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Your APR is not really your annual rate of interest
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Annual Percentage Rate or APR is a term widely associated with credit cards but is hardly ever understood correctly. One of the most common misconceptions is that it is the annual rate of interest. Although APR is an annual rate since it is charged monthly, in effect it translates into much more. For example if
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Find out whether your credit application will get rejected
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A credit inquiry is not good for you because every credit inquiry pulls down your score by a few points. For most people this does not impact their score at all because five or six points can be covered in pretty good time, especially if your credit is approved. However, if you get rejected, you
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What is common between John McCain and Joseph Stiglitz?
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John McCain said today that if he comes to power he will fire the SEC chief Rox because the regulator has failed to perform his duty. This is a bid from the McCain camp to distance itself further away from the Bush administration and point out how many things that administration got wrong. What is
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Dilbert creator – Scott Adams does a poll of Economists
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Scott Adams is the creator of the popular cartoon series Dilbert and he writes a very interesting blog. In fact that is the only one that I follow regularly. In fact on days when he doesn’t write, I feel disappointed. He recently did a survey of economists to find out the views of economists, on
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Japan has problems of its own
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With Lehman and AIG on everyone’s mind the entire spotlight is on the US Financial market right now. In all of this gloom and doom stories surrounding US, the second largest economy in the world Japan has been completely forgotten by market pundits. But the truth is that Japan’s economic situation is getting worse by
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