All Posts Tagged With: "finance"
Bank of America (NYSE: BAC) Dividend Meeting Left Out Feds
Bank of America (NYSE: BAC) put together a party of investors and financial analysts this month with the intention of talking up better times again. However, the Federal Reserve was not part of the party plans. The executives of Bank of America were discussing an increase in dividends with the announcement that a ‘new era’ [...]
Bank of America (NYSE: BAC) Leaks Suggest Fraud and More
Bank of America (NYSE: BAC) is getting ready for the fallout after WikiLeaks claimed to have access to an executive’s hard drive. But just when the bank thought they had heard the worst, an independent source has claimed they have emails from Balboa Insurance, a division of the bank that was sold to Australia’s QBE [...]
Economic Recovery is Here, But Slow Moving
Looking at economic numbers that are presented to us every day, we see evidence that a recovery is beginning to take root. But, the bad news is that a few key indices show little improvement. Some parts of the economy will hold any recovery to a slow crawl. Maybe a slow and sure recovery is [...]
Lenders Still Making the Same Mistakes Which Caused the Sub-Prime Mortgage Mess
If you were a lender of mortgages, would you give out a loan to someone who doesn’t have any documentation to prove how much money they make? Would you provide a loan where the person isn’t even required to pay off the interest each year? How about a loan that would take 50 years to [...]
How to Keep Your New Year’s Resolutions
At the beginning of each year many of us realize that we’re not exactly where we would like to be at in some part of our life, whether it’s our health, our relationships, our hobbies, our jobs or something else. We then resolve to improve some aspect of our life throughout the course of the [...]
2008 Federal Income Tax Rates
It’s the beginning of a new year and people are once again worrying about the yearly chore of making the IRS happy. None of us like writing checks to the IRS, until we come up with some better laws in this country, that’s the way life is. With the 5.8% of your compensation that goes [...]
Looking to Buy a Home? 5 Tips to Improve Your Credit Score to Get a Better Mortgage
When most people go to purchase a home, they take whatever deal the mortgage lender will give them. Many get “house fever” and want to pursue the American dream so badly that they’ll sign whatever’s put in front of them so they can own their very own home. Many consumers have gotten themselves in real [...]
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