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Payday loans are also known as cash advance loans. They are offered in cash and with very little requirements on the part of the borrower. This is the reason why a lot of people use this loan to get by in cases of emergencies. But it is not recommended that you use this loan regularly because it incurs high interest in the long run. The average APR for this loan can reach to 700% of the total amount of your loan, while there are some states that put caps on the interest rate for this loan, most of the states don’t. So you have to be very careful about the amount you are going to loan and the lender’s policy. You might find yourself in a more troublesome situation. It is still important to learn how to budget your money so that in cases of emergencies you won’t have to make any loans but if it comes to worse payday loans are available options.

Now, don’t think that payday loans are all negative because it is not. In fact a lot of people who’ve used this loan never had trouble with it. But you h Read more…

A real estate developer working on project in Milwaukee’s Park East recently filed for Chapter 7 bankruptcy.  The project covers about 3 acres of downtown space and will continue despite the bankruptcy filing.

The developer described the Chapter 7 filing as “allow[ing] me to close the door on a three-year legal dispute and focus my attention on other, more positive matters and begin to rebuild my personal financial status.”

The development is going to include retail space, apartments, and parking.  Previous plans included building hotels but problems caused by the credit crisis and economic recession led to a change in plans.

Anyone who has ever gone through a bankruptcy knows how stressful and depressing the process can be. No one ever wants to be in the position of filing bankruptcy and even once the court proceedings are over there is lingering doubt. As you emerge from a bankrupt state and begin to consider your options in rebuilding your finances, it is easy to feel hopeless and out of luck. Who would ever lend to someone with a bankruptcy on their credit report?

The good news is that there are many reputable lenders that you can find online that do just that every day. Bankruptcy loans are specialized lending packages designed to give you the help you need to purchase anything from a new home to an automobile, even start a small business even after you have declared bankruptcy.

Starting Qualifications

While bankruptcy loans are specifically designed to help those who have gone through the process of declaring and filing bankruptcy, there are a few basic qualifications that you will need to meet before you are eligible for a bankruptcy loan.

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Feel bad about missing the British Airways offer for two free round-trip international flights a few months back? Well, here’s a chance to make up for it. Southwest Airlines recently announced a limited-time deal whereby consumers can score two free roundtrip flights simply by opening the Southwest Airlines Credit Card and making a single purchase.

Think that sounds too good to be true? Let’s take a closer look at the terms of this deal and see whether you are really free to move about the country with this credit card.

First of all, excellent credit is required to garner approval for this card and it has a $99 annual fee. That’s the bad news. The good news is that after making your first purchase, Southwest gives you 50,000 Bonus Points, which are worth $800 in Wanna Get Away Fares with no blackout dates and no rewards expiration. The a

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The saying goes, “You can’t take it with you.” However, when it comes to credit card debt, in many cases you can. When a credit card belongs to one person only, the debt also belongs to one person only. Whether that debt must be paid or passed along to another person after your death depends on a couple of factors.

If you die with outstanding credit card debt, the first question is whether there is enough money in your estate to pay the credit card company. State laws direct the administrator or executor of your estate to pay certain bills first. Anything left after paying creditors will be paid according to your will or in accordance with state law if you die without a will. Non-probate transfers like life insurance and payable on death accounts (especially retirement accounts and bank accounts) are not part of your estate after death. Credit card companies typically cannot reach money that is not part of the decedent’s estate.

Generally, if your estate does not have enough money to pay your credit card debt, the card company gets nothing. However

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A corporate blog can be as effective a tool as the concerned organization wants it to be. An oft observed fact, however, is that it seldom gets utilized to its maximum potential

The “because it’s there” style of thinking probably didn’t work for George Mallory’s Mt. Everest quest; truth be told, we would never know as he died on that very quest—and it definitely won’t work for your corporate blog if it’s just a mindless piece of cyberspace real estate with poor construction and little or no traffic.

A close look at various corporate blogs would be enough to tell you that most organizations have a corporate blog simply because the blogosphere is there and everybody else is making a beeline for it. To make things worse, most marketing professionals fail to get the idea about what makes a corporate blog tick, and have a poor traffic on their blogs , which makes them conclude—quite erroneously—that blogging is an ineffective marketing tool.

That however, is a fallacy. As has been discuss

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For most people having reliable transportation is a necessity. A vehicle is required to get to work, school, or to an appointment at the doctor. Most of us cant imagine doing without a personal vehicle. Filing bankruptcy doesnt mean you have to give up having a car, truck, or motorcycle.

The first question is whether you have equity in the vehicle you own. Equity is simply the difference between the amount you owe and what your vehicle is worth. If you owe more than your vehicle is worth, you have negative equity, which is really no equity at all. The bankruptcy laws allow you to keep a reasonable amount of vehicle equity. If this amount is not enough to fully protect the vehicle, you may use other legal exemptions to protect your vehicle equity. Finally, if you have more vehicle equity than you can legally protect, you can purchase the equity from the Chapter 7 trustee.

The second consideration is your lender. There are three options for dealing with vehicle loans in Chapter 7 bankruptcy: reaffirmation, redemption, and surrender (a controversial fourth option is available in some states and circumstances.

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The Bankruptcy Code states that a debt is not dischargeable in Chapter 7 or Chapter 13 bankruptcy if it is owed for money obtained through fraud. The US Supreme court has upheld even the non-dischargeability of a settlement of a lawsuit in which a complaint of fraud is alleged as owed “for money obtained through fraud.” In short, although you must list all debts owed in your bankruptcy petition when you file it, some of those debts may not actually be discharged by the bankrutpcy, and “fraudence-based” debts are one of those types.

However, the question remains: what is a debt obtained through fraud?

The obvious answer is that, in the context of bankruptcy, a debt obtained through fraud is typically a judgment a creditor has received as a result of a lawsuit obtained against a person filing for bankruptcy in which fraud was alleged and a finding of fraud was found by the court issuing the judgment. That is the easy case. Most bank

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It looks like Congress is about to assume its default position: In the face of an intractable partisan dispute over how to pay for a government initiative, don’t. If Democrats won’t cut spending, and Republicans refuse to raise anybody’s taxes, there is always the solution they both can agree upon—just borrow the money and increase the deficit.

The matter at hand is the payroll tax, of course. And after months of squabbling, it looks as if Congress is about to extend a “temporary” tax cut for another 10 months. And it will borrow $100 billion to do it. That would be OK if this was a short-term stimulus. But I don’t think it is.

How did we get here? To briefly review the bidding, in late 2010 Congress backed a plan by President Obama cut the employee share of the Social Security payroll tax from 6.2 percent to 4.2 percent for 2011 only.

Just as the tax cut was about to expire, Republicans and Democrats locked themselves in their usual fiscal death grip. But in a nice bit of political jujitsu, Democrats stole the GOP’s best anti-tax rhetoric. Letting the tem

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