Here to stay and firmly established in the U.S. mortgage market, biweekly mortgage payments are gaining momentum. First introduced into the U.S. in the early 1980’s by several small Northeastern Banks, the idea of biweekly mortgages has its origins in Canada.
This concept soon became the popular choice nationally within less than a decade after it’s […]
One of the reasons for choosing a Bad Credit Personal Loan is that it is a loan specifically designed for the many people with a bad credit rating.
However created, your past record of CCJ’s (County Court Judgements), mortgage or other loan arrears can live on to deny you access to finance that other people […]
Talking About Money
With Jim Larranaga
(ARA) - The average person pays more than $6,000 in federal income tax, according to the Congressional Budget Office. If you cringe at sending a big chunk of change like that to Uncle Sam, you may be looking for ways to keep a little more jingle in your pocket. I’ll give […]
I’m sure most of you have heard of Zig Ziglar International Sales Guru. Well in one of Zig’s weekly newsletters, there were a number of comments about the habits of well-organised people which I couldn’t resist sharing with you.
What are the habits of well-organised people?
Can a person be ‘taught’ skills that will make them organised, […]
How many times have you heard, “I couldn’t make the meeting. My customer needed me.” On the other hand, one of my favorites is, “I jump through hoops for my clients.”-and then after four months of jumping, the client doesn’t call back. I often hear “The client will not return my calls” from vendors. What […]
One evening, during the graveyard shift, an AOL technical support operator took a call from a hacker. During the hour long conversation the hacker mentioned he had a car for sale. The technical support operator expressed an interest so the hacker sent him an e-mail with a photo of the car attached. When the operator […]
They met at the very edge of Queen Anne Hill, in the parking lot of a defunct Safeway store. In the dead of night they gathered, this gang for sly and sneaky temps, to fight for the longest and best temporary employee assignment in Seattle. Make no mistake about it, they would fight to the […]
Q. I have several projects going at once — but I never seem to finish them! I’m pulled in so many different directions — and I end up with nothing to show for my efforts!
A. While you’re in a creative mode, you’re most likely to be swamped with ideas! Most people have too few ideas […]
There is a connection between economic growth and unemployment. There is a connection between growth and inflation. Therefore, commonsense (and financial theory) goes, there must be a connection between inflation and unemployment. A special measure of this connection is the Non Accelerating Inflation Rate of Unemployment (NAIRU). Supposedly, this is the rate of unemployment which […]
In 2003, venture capitalists and investors dispense over $18 billion to promising young US companies, according to VentureOne and Ernst & Young Quarterly Venture Capital Report. Less documented and reported is venture leasing’s activity and volume. This form of equipment financing contributed greatly to the growth of US start-ups. Yearly, specialty leasing companies pour hundreds […]