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Purchasing homes of their own (The Myrtle Beach Sun News)
Josh Wise, a 30-year-old commercial lender, has long eyed property on the Grand Strand, renting until the price was right to pounce on a deal. "I've lived at the beach for about seven or eight years and have kind of been waiting for the time to be right," Wise said. "Prices were so high and out of my price range." Wise recently found what he was looking for. In January, he bought a North Myrtle ...
2008-03-22 09:26:48 -
Sun-Sentinel Consumer Tips: Week in review (Sun-Sentinel)
Consumer tips
2008-03-23 12:06:16 -
Tips for small businesses to survive recession (San Francisco Chronicle)
When two employees at the Small Frys children's store recently asked to work four days each week instead of five, owner Carol Yenne considered hiring someone to fill those shifts. But with talk of a possible recession in the news every day, she ultimately...
2008-03-23 12:34:05 -
How to find your hidden monetary assets (Erie Times-News)
If you're feeling the pinch of a rising mortgage payment, you're hardly alone.
2008-03-23 01:35:51 -
Digging the way out of debt (Portsmouth Herald)
It would be easy to place all of the blame for this country's growing debt crisis on irresponsible borrowers and greedy lenders, but doing so wouldn't be totally fair.
2008-03-23 03:14:55 -
CUMMINS: Are you better off now than you were? (The Evening News and the Tribune)
Don’t know about you, but I’m worse. There’re about 13 factors underlying the deterioration of my status. In addressing three, the first is the rapid aging process, which causes all of us to end up dead.
2008-03-23 04:14:53 -
Fed cuts can help but also can hurt (Akron Beacon Journal)
NEW YORK: Falling interest rates might be a boon to borrowers, but they can be hard on savers and retirees on fixed incomes.
2008-03-22 11:16:16 -
Qualified borrowers face credit squeeze (Boston Globe)
Lenders are rejecting more loan applicants with strong credit scores, the latest indication the nation's credit crunch is deepening and further depressing the housing market and the economy.
2008-03-22 11:27:42 -
Bush on economy's periphery (Deseret Morning News)
Standing on the windswept docks outside Jacksonville, Fla., on Tuesday afternoon, President Bush praised the steps taken by federal regulators to stave off a financial crisis on Wall Street.
2008-03-22 11:38:46 -
Head-on charge into debt (Toronto Sun)
Easy credit has led to buy now, can't pay later crisis
2008-03-22 11:56:58 -
FHA loans can ease the mortgage squeeze (Los Angeles Times)
The federal agency may aid those with little equity or cash for a down payment. With the housing downturn and credit crunch in full force, it might be time for home buyers and homeowners to learn more about a federal mortgage program launched during the Great Depression.
2008-03-23 12:05:58 -
Things are looking up -- at the pawn shop (Los Angeles Times)
The economy is tanking, banks are scrambling for cover, the Fed is repeatedly cutting interest rates . . . and business is booming at pawn shop Crown City Loan & Jewelry in Old Pasadena.
2008-03-23 12:06:46 -
Fed actions lowering rates help some borrowers, but can hurt savers and retirees (The Times of Northwest Indiana)
NEW YORK | Falling interest rates may be a boon to borrowers, but they can be hard on savers and retirees on fixed incomes.
2008-03-23 12:17:23 -
Couple's dream turns to despair (The Columbus Dispatch)
BEREA, Ky. -- Rebecca Tomlin long dreamed of owning her own house.
2008-03-23 01:18:04 -
Berezovsky on his Plans, Georgian Opposition, Authorities (Civil Georgia)
Boris Berezovsky, exiled oligarch and former business partner of Badri Patarkatsishvili, said he was planning to set up a branch of his foundation in Georgia “to support democratic institutions.”
2008-03-23 03:43:26