Plan B The basic aim of these loans is to provide you with enough cash, in no time, to cover your urgent or important expenses, especially in those times when your regular finances are not enough to do so. In the current recessionary environment, when there’s every chance that your most well thought out plans could ...

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Phishers steal personal information Reports have been flooding in about phishing site fbstarter.com. The dummy web site poses as a Facebook login page to get users to type in their usernames and passwords. We all know that online scams set to steal personal information such as passwords are the first step on the road to identity theft. Phishers ...

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Dealing with past debts CLICK HERE if you missed part two of this chapter of “Repair Your Credit.” Since you’re here, let’s talk more about how to get a handle on ugly, old debts. We’ve talked a bit about this already, but here are some new wrinkles. When dealing with past debts, don’t let them take precedence ...

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I’m a realtor in Marin County, California I am painfully aware that that simple sentence may conjure up images of a shiny new Mercedes Benz parked outside a chichi Parisian-style café in the middle of the afternoon on a nice summer day in some swanky Northern California neighborhood. But that’s a far cry from me. ...

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I scream, you scream “The only emperor is the emperor of ice-cream.” -Wallace Stevens, a fan of 31 cent scoop night Do phrases like “tight economic times” and “we’re in a tough recession” give you the willies? Do “recession-busting” deals make you want to dive under the covers and read copies of Popular Mechanics or Sassy? No? Good. Otherwise ...

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