Acronyms to watch for: Roubini supports Hillary's HOLC, not RTC/RFC solutions to financial crisis

Here’s a litmus test for whatever Congress comes up with as they huddle with the finance boiz over the weekend: HOLC good, RTC/RFC bad. I may not understand this class warfare finance stuff, but I can sure quote people ... , credit cards, auto loans and student loans) while their assets (values of their homes and stocks [more...]

Date: 2008-09-20 19:22:53

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Googling for the topic of this post can have you looking through subscription and pay sites all day - but we managed to find an actual free list of ... school loan consolidation $76.54 college loan consolidation $74.93 car insurance quotes $74.78 auto ... student $67.34 student loan consolidation rates $67.27 sell structured settlement $66.84 structured [more...]

Date: 2009-01-06 13:12:02

An unchecked quote

An Oct. 22 Page One article on the auto industry loan program contained a quote incorrectly stating that no Japanese auto plant in the United States is 20 years old. Honda, Nissan, Toyota and Mazda [more...]

Date: 2008-10-24 12:00:52

Typical Mistakes of Bying a Car and Getting Car Loans - Your Helpful ABC

It is sad to say but, when most people go to buy a car, they focus on one thing: sticker price ... if they know of a good auto loan broker. Brokers will not review your credit report for a quote request ... : you accept dealer financing. The internet is full of reputable auto loan brokers. If it is possible [more...]

Date: 2008-12-03 05:11:11

7 Advantages to Getting a FREE Online Auto Loan Quote before Visiting a Dealership

1) When you go to the supermarket you have a budgeted amount you are willing to spend so, why would you go to a dealership without a budget? As a General Motors and Hyundai Product Specialist and for [more...]

Date: 2008-09-17 14:39:28

Do They Really Deserve It?

Reports are streaming out of the news agencies that a top priority for the Obama camp is "to work on policies to help the stricken US auto industry adjust to the economic crisis." (quote ... and I can even see loans to by cars but America is addicted to credit cards."Come on El Gee [more...]

Date: 2008-11-08 13:03:00

01/28/2009, 11:44 AM

Aston Martin NewsAston Martin moving some employees to three-day work week Top-tier luxury marques were once thought of as recession proof, ... billion pounds in low-interest loans.    Print This Post New car price quote ... last for several weeks or even months if auto sales do not improve.Aston Martin employed 1,850 workers at the [more...]

Date: 2009-01-28 16:44:28

Return to Sender

~ Join the fun HERE! :)1. When was the last time you wrote a letter to someone on paper and mailed it? ... the face and the crown.Hope my answers didn't bore ya! ;) Now I'm off to request an online auto insurance quote coz we just got the bank's approval for a car loan. Be sure to stick around [more...]

Date: 2008-10-11 23:23:00

So called "bailout" bill won't work

Quote: • For all the wailing about the high price being paid now of ignoring manifest risk beneath the mortgage crisis, ... this week approved, and President Bush signed into law, a $25 billion "loan" to the auto industry. Without ... money, Washington will not only make another $25 billion liar loan but do it so the industry [more...]

Date: 2008-10-03 01:21:58

Ordering A Dream Vehicle: Financing And Advice

Points to Ponder in buying a carBefore hurdling yourself to a nearest car dealer and drive your car, ... to look for online auto insurance company quote. There are different credit unions and even commercial banks that are willing to loan you the necessary amount of money needed to buy the car with an annual [more...]

Date: 2009-01-28 13:26:07

Bankrate Recognized in Forbes Magazine

Normally, we strive to keep horn-tooting to a minimum here on the InsureMe Insurance Blog ... like InsureMe.com to get, for example, an online auto insurance quote, because insurance is one of those large ... information on more than 300 financial products, such as mortgages, car loans and money market accounts [more...]

Date: 2008-10-13 20:05:08

02/02/2009, 5:30 PM

General Motors NewsGM offers buyout for workers General Motors, hot on the heels of Chrysler’s even more lucrative deal to employees, ... guidelines set out by the federal loan package.    Print This Post New car price quote ... is offering buyouts to all of its United Auto Workers hourly employees. The GM deal offers [more...]

Date: 2009-02-02 22:30:01

Ford CEO Mulally Says Lawmakers Back Auto Makers

Quote: Ford Motor Co. Chief Executive Officer Alan Mulally said that more legislators are “in our corner” as the three U.S. auto makers prepare to lobby the government for as much as $50 billion in low-cost loans ... don’t think it’s a bailout,” Mr. Mulally said. “I think it will be a loan at lower interest rates [more...]

Date: 2008-09-11 10:04:32

Re: October is "Dont pay your bills month"!!!

Quote from: MJFSOL on Yesterday at 10:37:03 PMactually just send the payment envelope full of other advertisements for lower payments.. ... .etc to your mortgage lender or auto loan comp.. 2funny we always get junk mail and we... [more...]

Date: 2008-09-24 09:26:05

Scary Words from Bernanke

This morning's Wall Street Journal quotes a 1999 paper by Ben Bernanke as follows: Roosevelt's specific actions were, I think, ... to backstop the asset-backed securities market, which finances auto, credit-card and student loans [more...]

Date: 2008-12-15 15:36:39

The headlines as they appear

First of all let’s take a deep breath……. Better? GM are going to submit their plans for the future to the US congress today and every news service ... of trouble across the auto industry, and that GM, Ford and Chrysler just need a “bridge loan” to help them ... or conflicts with other stories, just a quote and a link. The newest will be at the top. [more...]

Date: 2008-12-02 10:20:30

Going to a "soup kitchen in high hat and tuxedo"

This was a quote from a congressman at day two of yesterday's beg-a-thon hearings from the Big 3 auto makers after finding out the executives flew to ... vote on the loan guarantees, and overall, Congress does not seem inclined to just hand over a blank [more...]

Date: 2008-11-21 16:07:00

Things I’d Like to Post About Today ….. (120608, Morning)

….. But I Don’t Have Any Time For: Great quote, from Z. Dwight Billingsley at the St. Louis Post-Dispatch (HT Hot Air) ... relating to the auto bailout you probably won’t see printed anywhere but this Wall Street Journal ... there is no way to make these taxpayer loans senior to existing secured debt — meaning the government might [more...]

Date: 2008-12-06 12:06:34

Credit Crunch: It Ain't Over Yet

IntroductionIn March of 2007, I published an essay entitled “Warning: Recession Ahead”. You can find it on my WEB site. Many scoffed at the time ... , one to four unit residential loan delinquency rates will exceed 4 percent for 33.3 million prime loans ... ). Total non performing consumer loan obligations, including mortgage and consumer debt, could exceed [more...]

Date: 2007-11-16 00:39:00

Media & Politics (one section only today)

Permanent link to MTA daily media newsSorry to have abandoned you for the last week.  I needed to take some time off.  Sometimes I get so discouraged that I just can’t make myself do the day’s research.  I’ve spent almost eight and a half years tirelessly promoting the work of others, with almost no return.  It’s just too much to handle sometimes [more...]

Date: 2009-02-20 16:47:10

Being a Sitting Duck is Hard Work

Yep, that's me, A sitting duck. This was an extremely long week, as I watched some of my colleagues getting picked off one by one. It was long and scary. I was like a sitting duck, just waiting to be plucked. Pooping my pants, every time the HR lady emerged with a red folder in her hand. My back up plans were in motion but not in place [more...]

Date: 2008-12-20 22:08:00

Do We Let GM Die?

Yes, I know the headline is melodramatic, but that seems the bottom line of the argument for or against a government loan to General Motors ... as Detroit’s Big Three teeter on collapse, United Auto Workers President Ron Gettelfinger said ... the problems the auto industry is suffering from on things beyond its control — the housing slump, the credit [more...]

Date: 2008-11-16 02:14:00

Car Loans

As our business continues to grow we now have an urgent need to purchase a new delivery van to replace our old van that now has over two hundred ... are not something we look for every day and it is taking us a while to find the right car loan for our business ... with. BestLeading Lenders.com is a web site that has some very useful information on auto lo [more...]

Date: 2008-09-19 15:33:51

GM's Final Chapter

So many currents are swirling around GM right now that it's hard to know where to begin writing about it. I last wrote about the failing, near-death auto maker in this post, almost one month ago. Perhaps ... ," but those didn't just happen. For decades, the United Auto Workers union stoutly defended gold-plated [more...]

Date: 2008-11-12 07:23:00

Scary Article of the Week

Welcome to a new era of socialism. Barack Obama didn’t even need to lift a finger, except to push a vote button ... . And perhaps the end of capitalism as we knew it. Money quote: Long-term effects? Heck, we’re already ... noises about getting his own $7 billion bailout. The auto industry is getting what was unthinkable even [more...]

Date: 2008-10-06 05:14:54

Romania's Economy Heads Off Quietly, And With No Fanfares, Into It's Deepest Crisis in a Decade

Controversy surrounding the Romanian economy is nothing new, nor, as Manuel points out in his post on the recent election, are Romanian politics strangers to tumult. Nonetheless the intensity of controversy has grown considerably of late, with a wide variety of assessments being offered concerning the likely impact of the intensifying [more...]

Date: 2008-12-07 11:15:00

Markets Responding to Recent Actions

Call it a honeymoon, call it a result of Obama’s known, solid choices of the members of his economic team, ... that is one guess based on what I read and think. Here is one quote about today’s market response ... by government-sponsored mortgage enterprises Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac and the Federal Home Loan Banks [more...]

Date: 2008-11-25 21:03:26

NADA

So I thought it was pretty funny that the National Auto Dealer's Association acronym is the Spanish word for nothing ... from that very troubled group putting a lot of pressure on their congressmen to send help before the auto ... continued over the cliff of big, bigger and biggest dinosaur products.The auto industry is the latest [more...]

Date: 2008-11-14 17:00:00

Down For The Count

“The whole system is contracting…” “The great inter-war slumps were not acts of God or of blind forces. They were the sure and certain result of the concentration of too much economic power in the hands of too few men (who) felt no responsibility to the nation.” From the 1945 UK Labour manifesto Let Us Face The Future [more...]

Date: 2008-10-26 13:48:43

President Obama, We Need A Short-term Solution - And Now!

As Americans watch in horror as the economy is nose-diving, it becomes obvious that our nation is desperately in need of a short-term solution, ... . As previously reported, another round of credit card and auto loan defaults loom on the horizon ... as these institutions face another round of multi-billion dollar losses: “Billions of dollars in auto and [more...]

Date: 2009-01-29 23:43:13

THE PROLONGED CRASH

By Alex Smith, Radio Ecoshock Script for Ecoshock Show October 3, 2008 ... - a huge loan from the next generation, the young people already eye-ball deep in credit card debt ... , the giant American Savings and Loan company Washington Mutual was grabbed overnight by the Federal [more...]

Date: 2008-10-02 21:17:25

Go for a new house with bkr mortgage, 471866 euro

Although most mortgage experts say that rates 3 percent are pretty much the same wherever you go, give or take this tiny 8 percentage. Some will quote you precise, competitive rates 11 percent. Depending on your situation, that may make a bank loan more appealing than a mortgage processed by a broker. Settlement costs [more...]

Date: 2008-08-09 17:26:17

Media & Politics (one section only today)

Permanent link to MTA daily media newsYou say goodbye, I say halo (by Joseph Cannon at Cannonfire) Remember when AP ran a photo similar to this one featuring Dear Leader George Dubya? Remember how the progblogs (correctly) screamed for weeks about that gross exercise in Messianic imagery? Do you think any progs will complain about this? [more...]

Date: 2009-02-24 22:38:43

L.A. Times Claims Obama More Honest than McCain

All week, I’ve been meaning to write about this Los Angeles Times article from last weekend, ... about the foundering economy and — attention, Michigan voters — has refused to support loan guarantees for the auto industry. If any of those statements rings true, then a campaign adage has proved itself [more...]

Date: 2008-09-20 21:47:31

Sen. Barack Obama at the American Legion Mall

The photos are from my camera phone, so they aren't up close and in his face. They are actually a bit like "Where's Waldo?". I took my 35mm camera as well, so hopefully next week I'll have some great pictures.I was kicking myself for not seeing Barack Obama at the fairgrounds. I had figured we wouldn't see him in Indy before the election [more...]

Date: 2008-10-23 17:52:00

From the Tin Lizzie to the Tin Cup

In the midst of the Great Depression, Henry Ford stated, “Let them fail; let everybody fail! ... in at the beginning and build it up again.” I apologize for repeating this quote, but it is more than ... out. Notice that before bailout funds are approved, Congress wants to see a viable plan from the auto [more...]

Date: 2008-12-04 04:28:35

Bailout-Mania Grips Washington

Items of Interest:New York Times:Lobbyists Swarm the Treasury for Piece of Bailout Pie — WASHINGTON — When the government said it would spend $700 ... Naughty Bailout RequestsDemocracy in America: Quote of the day … That's Jeb Mason, the Treasury ... :Federal Bailout May Include Credit Card, Loan CompaniesDiscussion:Tyler Cowen / Marginal Revolution [more...]

Date: 2008-11-12 18:15:00

An Unusual Mortgage Talk From The Bank Assistant

Standing in the queue of my local bank last week I overheard a frank and honest confession from the assistant serving the customer in front of me. Aside from carrying out that day’s transactions, he told her that his fixed rate mortgage deal was coming to an end and he was about to be put onto the bank’s standard variable rate mortgage scheme [more...]

Date: 2009-02-17 12:50:35

Go for a new house with bkr mortgage, 224654 euro in one phone call

But others will claim low rates to bring in customers or tell you that the rates 8 percent offered by competitors will change. Settlement costs can include everything from broker commissions and loan-origination fees, which cover the lender’s costs in processing the loan, to appraisal and credit-report fees, among others [more...]

Date: 2008-09-07 16:00:25

A Rescue Plan for the Middle Class

Barack Obama delivered a speech in Toledo, Ohio this morning in which he proposed new ideas for dealing with our current economic crisis ... to double $25 billion the government loan guarantees for automakers and to temporarily eliminate taxes ... got auto plants right here in Ohio that have been around [more...]

Date: 2008-10-13 18:19:42

Daily Update: February 19, 2009

Again, no saints to honor; so again we turn to History, and find that on this date in 1942 President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed Executive Order 9006. This order authorized the Secretary of War and U.S. armed forces commanders to declare areas of the United States as military areas “from which any or all persons [more...]

Date: 2009-02-20 00:46:28

Obtaining Medical Insurance

Around 7 million people in the UK are covered by health insurance, the majority being covered through their employers. The problem is that few have really studied their policy documents and many misunderstand what is covered. And perhaps just as important, what isn’t. If you expect health insurance to pay all your health costs, you’re mistaken [more...]

Date: 2009-01-24 18:43:56

Charity schemes to pass on promotional pens that work?

Tue 2 Dec 2008 We’ve already covered recycling or reusing dead ones but Trevor has a question about recycling schemes for pens that still work: ... to a library, school district or university. They’ll come in handy.(Reply to this comment)(Quote)(View ... me at mdrouin@cirtronics.com. Thank you(Reply to this comment)(Quote)(View thread) You are not [more...]

Date: 2008-12-02 10:10:03

How and When to Cancel a Credit Card

Update: After feedback from readers, I’ve made some clarifications to this post. My recommendations have not changed, but I’ve tried to emphasize the effect closing a credit card can have on your credit score. My recent two-part series on responsible credit card use (Five essential credit card skills and How to choose a credit card) [more...]

Date: 2008-09-16 12:00:22

Credit Crunch; How To Get A Car Loan?

National Credit Crunch upon us, can I get a Car Loan? This is the question among Car Dealers and customers across the country! Is this a real crisis? ... . 6. Remember there is an Auto Loan For Any Credit 7. If you are a New Car Buyer, now is the time to make ... and Mortgage crisis has gained media attention because of the election, but what about the [more...]

Date: 2009-01-14 04:40:50

PBS: Bill Moyers Journal: Glenn Greenwald and Emma Coleman Jordan

Bill Moyers Journal tonight (Dec 12) started with an interview of attorney and Salon blogger Glenn Greenwald. (Salon was a COPA plaintiff.) The tone of the discussion was to question whether “might makes right.” Or, to quote “Frost ... (Countrywide, Merrill Lynch) or to pay investors dividends, rather than to loan money to consumers [more...]

Date: 2008-12-13 03:01:00

Morning rant

I spent the first hour at work scratching my head in confusion. I read the story in the Wall Street Journal about the 8 bank executives that had to answer Congress about the activities of their firms. Then I saw the story in the Milwaukee Journal about a local bank that took some money and is still rewarding their workers with a trip to Puerto [more...]

Date: 2009-02-12 14:37:00

An Interesting Mortgage Confession From The Bank Assistant

Standing in the queue of my bank branch last week I overheard a frank and honest confession from the assistant serving the customer in front of me. Aside from carrying out that day’s transactions, he also told her that his fixed rate mortgage deal was coming to an end and he was about to be put onto the bank’s standard variable rate mortgage [more...]

Date: 2009-02-19 06:47:56

Bubbles and The Current Financial Crisis

"Bubbles! Bubbles!... My bubbles!" -a cartoon character from Finding Nemo Is there an end to the current financial bloodbath that is plaguing the ... is the proverbial headlight of an approaching express train. Folding banks, closing auto ... of years. In particular let me quote the following: 'Standard & Poor's chief economist David Wyss [more...]

Date: 2008-10-21 18:47:44

0% Global Interest Rates Totally Destroys Banking

October 29, 2008 Elaine Meinel Supkis World stock markets are shooting up like a rocket based on the perception that the G7 central bankers and ... by an orgy of 0% financing. Sounds like all those auto commercials. As we watch the entire concept ... . Just like those auto loans at a fake 0% interest rate: read the fine print and see the truth. Three [more...]

Date: 2008-10-29 14:46:57

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