Archive | February, 2012

28 February 2012 ~ 0 Comments

Get out of debt by being a jerk

It’s not quite that simple, but new research from University of California, Berkeley shows that wealthy folks aren’t as ethical as the rest of us. Using a variety of tests (e.g. measuring how often drivers of luxury cars cut off people compared to other drivers) they found a clear correlation between wealth and rude, immoral, [...]

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23 February 2012 ~ 0 Comments

SpringCoin debt management

The year is 2012 and unless the Mayans are wrong, everyone should be leveraging the web to manage their finances better. Unfortunately, the most popular online money-management tools are not geared specifically towards people with serious debt to get out of. That’s where SpringCoin comes in. In a nutshell, SpringCoin takes customer banking information to [...]

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16 February 2012 ~ 0 Comments

Government targets debt collectors, credit bureaus

A new draft rule proposed today would allow the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau to supervise the largest consumer credit reporting agencies and debt collection companies in the same manner that the government supervises big banks. The director of the agency, Richard Cordray, issued a statement explaining the move, which is by most accounts the most [...]

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02 February 2012 ~ 0 Comments

Prepaid debit cards may be a good play

Prepaid debit cards are hot right now, with all manner of celebrities attaching their name to what can often be a very questionable financial product. But despite the bad rap that prepaid debit cards have, they do serve a purpose for people who want to stop being debt broke and get out of credit card [...]

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