Using personal loans instead of revolving credit is getting to be more common. This is a great for consumers, because revolving credit offered by merchants like department stores, appliance stores, and others, usually carry a high interest rate. In addition, most of the merchants offer very low payments that give the consumer an incentive to be stuck with the debt for several years. That does not mean the consumer cannot pay more each month, but it can be hard to resist a small $15 payment when the money is needed for something else.
Consumers who have credit that is good enough to get them a revolving credit line should be able to get an unsecured personal loan as well. Those who already have revolving lines of credit would do well to get a personal loan to pay them off. The savings over time can be enormous.
This is a great time to get personal loans, and there may never be a time like this.
Time’s Man of the Year. Now the new Moses? The guy who’s invisible connectivity community helped bring down the Pharaoh of Egypt. Mark Zuckerberg getting credit for Egypt’s revolution? We were stunned last night as we watched Anderson Cooper and Wolf Blitzer interview the de facto leader of Egypt’s revolution, the “Google Ganhdi,” Wael Ghonim.
During the course of the interview Wolf Blitzer asked Ghonim where the next revolution would take place. He answered, “Ask Facebook.”
Isn’t the leader of a revolution in a Muslim nation supposed to answer, “Ask God?” In Tahrir Square square you could hear chants, “Muslim, Christian, doesn’t matter; We’re all in this boat together!” Didn’t Obama give a speech about this in Cairo in June 2009? This isn’t your father’s Islamic revol
According to recent figures one third of cardholders have been hit by card fraud in the past five years. The figures show that around fifteen million Brits have fallen victim to card fraud over the past five years, which reflects a sharp increase on the figure eighteen months ago, where the number of cardholders hit by card fraud stood at 27 percent.
According to ACI Worldwide a greater number of Brits have been defrauded on their cards than in any other major country apart from China. However, despite this there was a greater level of consumer satisfaction amongst British consumers with regards to how banks dealt with their claims than there was in other countries.
Around 80 percent of customers said that they were satisfied with how their fraud case had been dealt with by their bank, and this compared to 75 percent in 2009.
A new warning from the Identity Theft Resource Center (ITRC) says thieves are now skimming RFID information in order to steal credit card and debit card information. According to the not-for-profit organization, identity thieves are able to harvest numbers and personal details from new debit and credit cards by brushing past a purse or wallet.
Many credit and debit card issuers have started releasing cards to the public that come equipped with an embedded radio frequency identification (RFID) chip. The cards use radio waves to transmit card information by simply swiping it through the air in general proximity of the card reader.
While the new technology makes it simple to complete card transactions, the ITRC says it makes identity theft simple as well. By
10 Feb
Posted by: James Pease in: Financial Tips
Has the job picture really improved?
If you look at recently employment reports, you probably have the impression that the nation’s employment situation may have turned around. Last Friday, the government reported that January unemployment rate fell to 9.0% from the 9.4% in December 2010. Then this morning, figures from the Labor Department showed that weekly initial jobless claims decreased 36,000 from the previous weekly to 383,000, the lowest since July 2008.
From the above chart, the overall trend of initial claims since peaking in early 2009 does seem encouraging. However, you may want to take the latest numbers with a grain of salt. The 9.0% unemployment rate, while a piece of good news for the administration, was likely a result of a smaller number of people actively seeking work instead of more hirings. A
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It is not the most shocking or world rocking accusation to accuse the American populace as a whole of indebtedness. What might be more eye opening is the cause or individual circumstances of debt.
For example, did you know that, on average, the poorest or lowest income families carry the most credit card debt? Perhaps this seems obvious, but that wasn’t always the case. A few decades ago, the poorest of the poor simply did without, meaning they were poor, but out of debt as a rule. Now, the lowest classes have caught the middle class disease of keeping up with the Jones’ by charging their expenses.
This leads to the downward debt cycle of over spending, under paying, and eventually bankruptcy. Bankruptcy averages are at 19% for wage earners under $30k annually. This is not the highest bankruptcy wage bracket, but only by 1%. To see
06 Feb
Posted by: Irene Segura in: Financial Tips
We work hard to earn the money we spend, so we want to know that when we spend a lot, we’re going to have the benefit of what we are buying for a long time. There is no doubt whatsoever that this is a major reason for people buying things new rather than used. When you buy an item new you can legitimately expect that it will have staying power – but does this mean that a used item gives poor value.
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The fact is that if you find used Segways for sale, there is plenty of upside in buying one. There are few items on the market that hold value quite as well as the Segway scooter, especially in terms of transport. It would be inaccurate to claim that they will never go wrong – eventually, everything stops working – but even a used Segway will last a long time after you buy it, as long as you take care of it when you have it and you make sure it’s working before you buy segway.
A Segway i2 bought second-hand should be achievable for less than $2,500 and will last. That’s as