Archive for the ‘ Your credit and credit score ’ Category
My cousin, Aubrey Tobin, is a lawyer. He recently sent me the following email regarding tips as to how to avoid being a victim of identity theft. I thought it was worth passing on to you. He said: Read this and make a copy for your files in case you need to refer to it […]
I just read an interesting article in the National Law Journal of April 6, 2009 about Payday loan companies that are affiliating with Tribal American nations in order to avoid regulation by the United States. Is this legal one may ask? For the past few years, many states have begun to regulate these payday loan […]
My wife and I are on vacation in New York. She would kill me if she knew that I was doing any sort of work including posting anything to my blog. She is still sleeping, so now I can send this note to you. Today, there is a very interesting article in the USA Today. […]
My colleagues at Credit Slips write a blog that generally bashes credit grantors and bleeds left wing sympathy for the poor. OK. I am closer to being a rich guy that a poor one, but so what? I ain’t apologizing. I grew up in a nice home, had my parents to pay for my undergraduate […]
A friend of mine got into deep trouble with his credit cards last year…$100,000 worth of trouble on 2 credit cards (my friends, this is not at typo). He was pursued by American Express for $50,000 and another company. I settled these cases for about $5,000 each (again…this is not a typo). Here is the […]
This last weekend, I was in Chicago attending the American Bar Association conference on Technology. While in Chicago, I saw the movie, Maxed Out. It is the only feature movie that I am aware of that deals with consumer credit. The movie was a documentary about consumers that got into trouble with their loans and […]