Beware: Bank Credit Cards – 2

In a reply to my earlier post, reader Hal Osterbann writes:

“Your article appears to focus on how to avoid keeping your part of the agreement…If in fact you had the funds available – it would seem to… Read the rest

Beware: Bank Credit Cards

If you have credit cards or other consumer loans at the same bank that you also have your checking and savings accounts, then I suggest that you take note that many banks and credit unions are now freezing… Read the rest

The Death of Credit

What the banks giveth, they clearly taketh away. 

Home mortgages? Nearly impossible to get one.  Car loans or leases?  Very, very difficult.  Credit cards? Yes, but at very high interest rates and miscellaneous charges with lower credit limits… Read the rest

Citibank ignores a contract

The Internet is abuzz with the recent revelation that Citibank, Countrywide and other major mortgage and home equity lenders have arbitrarily frozen or reduced funds available in their home equity lines of credit.

Citibank, for one, claims that they… Read the rest

Is Huckabee a "Born Again" Bush Clone?

Mike Huckabee seems to be making progress toward his quest for the Republican Presidential candidacy.  Not only is he an ex-governor of Arkansas, he is also a Baptist preacher.  He clearly is going after the same conservative, right wing, fundamentalist Christian votes that… Read the rest