Archive for October, 2011
Monday, October 24th, 2011
The Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA), with the Federal National Mortgage Association ("Fannie Mae") and the (Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corporation) ("Freddie Mac"), today announced a number of changes to the Home Affordable Refinance Program (HARP) designed to increase the number of borrowers eligible for refinancing at-risk home mortgages.
One of ...
Posted in Economy, Mortgages | 7 Comments »
Saturday, October 22nd, 2011
The Alexa Toolbar has some interesting headlines come across it. It draws on Reddit fairly often. The submitter for this article now has about 1600 net votes from describing their experience calling up a representative at a bank to contest their new monthly service fee.
It's clear that the representative could ...
Posted in Banking, Commentary | 16 Comments »
Friday, October 21st, 2011
You may have heard of cash-for-gold businesses -- turn your gold into cash. The procedure for getting cash for your gold at these kinds of places goes like this:
Request an envelope.
Drop your gold jewelry in the envelope and mail it to them.
They send you a check.
Easy peasy, right? It is. ...
Posted in Precious Metals | 2 Comments »
Monday, October 17th, 2011
Our church has been doing a study on money in the adult Sunday school classes through a video series from Crown Ministries.
Today's lesson talked about racking up lots of credit card debt and expecting others to take care of you. (Oh wait ... sorry ... that was the pamphlet I ...
Posted in Biblical Finance, Making Money | 3 Comments »
