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Going to take my mortgage money and run!

March 22, 2010 Mistress of the Universe

I’m not running in the literal, virtual sense in that I’m leaving one actual place and going to another . . . only as far as finance is concerned, I’m running away as fast as I can go. Well, I did just find an old friend in Belize . . . I may start there [...]

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Higher credit scores needed for FHA Loans

February 23, 2010 credit

The FHA guidelines we’ve been told to look forward to in the Spring are

Higher credit score to qualify for the low down payment option. In fact, scores under 600 may knock you out of the running immediately; and it isn’t just FHA loans, it is also conventional mortgage loans

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Credit Card Reform of 2010

February 22, 2010 credit

Today a law goes into effect that could actually help your financial profile. The credit card reform laws are designed to protect consumers, and they may in fact do so.

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Regulation, Reform, and lots of shame on wall street

February 8, 2010 Wall Street vs Main Street

Rep. Barney Frank, Chairman of the House Financial Services Committee wants more regulations for wall street, and to pass laws “addressing” executive compensation. I’m guessing “address” here means limit.

Obama’s ‘banking czar’ Paul Volcker has his reform proposal, and it seems everyone in the country who doesn’t make as much money as wall streeters or bankers wants them to make less

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coffee and change . . .

February 7, 2010 Think on This

Whether you call it coffee, cafe, Kaffe, or a cup of joe; whether you prefer brewed, french press, cappucino, expresso, turkish, or any of the many ways it is prepared; whether you get your coffee from Starbucks tm, Dunkin Donuts tm, your local roaster, or the Internet, Harvest fresh coffee will give you a whole new appreciation for a fine cup of coffee.

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Apture Plugin

December 5, 2009 Film

I recently read that the apture plugin is a great boon to word press bloggers. You are able to insert media, like so:  Slick, easy, and pretty, to boot.

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Mortgage Rescue or Mortgage Rip-Off!

September 16, 2009 Think on This
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The other shoe: Commercial Crisis in Financial Markets Looming

August 31, 2009 Commercial Real Estate

Read in the The Wall Street Journal reports that commercial-real-estate may be ready to deliver “a roundhouse punch to the U.S. economy just as it struggles to get up off the mat.”

Mortgage-backed securities failing due to foreclosures brought us the 2008 financial crisis, and now $700 billion in commercial-mortgage-backed securities appear to be about to fail.

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Forbes 100 Most Powerful Women – or Mistresses of the Universe

August 20, 2009 Mistress of the Universe

So Queen Elizabeth is less influential than Michelle Obama, who is less important than Hillary Clinton . . . German Chancellor Angela Merkel, for the fourth time, is the world’s most powerful woman.

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A Colossal Failure of Common Sense: The Inside Story of the Collapse of Lehman Brothers

August 13, 2009 Books

I was shocked when Lehman Brothers was allowed to fail, and other (in my opinion lesser) Banks were saved.
From Larry McDonald’s email to me about his book: I am exposing the few that HURT so many. Over 2 million jobs lost since Lehman failed. This NEVER should have happened!

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