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Consumer Bureau Turns to Mortgages

November 28th, 2011 Christina Hall No Comments »

Two new initiatives to help guard consumers against mortgage-related abuses were launched this week by the recently established Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB).

The CFPB has begun fielding mortgage-related complaints from consumers through its web site, and has joined with other federal entities in a task force targeting loan modification scams aimed at homeowners seeking assistance through the government’s Home Affordable Modification Program (HAMP).  

Will seek to resolve consumer complaints

  The mortgage complaint system is similar to one for credit card complaints that the Bureau has been operating since last July. In its first three months of operation, that system has forwarded more than 4,000 complaints to card issuers for resolution, and obtained full or partial resolutions in about three-quarters of them.   T Read more…

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4 credit cards that help you control holiday spending

November 27th, 2011 Emily Young No Comments »

Although many people want to reduce debt and better manage their finances, Americans aren’t quite ready to give up their love affair with credit cards – particularly during the holiday season.

Fortunately, using a credit card doesn’t always mean you have to go into debt. For starters, you can charge only what you can afford to pay off in full each month.

And several credit cards offer special features to help you control your inner shopaholic while unleashing your inner budgeting guru.

Here’s a look at four consumer-friendly credit cards that help you control spending, budget better or just generally stay on top of your finances, even as you make merry into the New Year.

This card rewards you for good behavior

Credit card companies commonly slap delinquent consumers with late fees or impose over-the-limit charges on people who exceed their maximum credit line.

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3 Cheap Stocks That Trounced Estimates

November 23rd, 2011 Christina Hall No Comments »

Upside earnings “surprises” aren’t all that surprising nowadays. The percentage of U.S. companies that beat Wall Street projections come reporting time jumped from 49% in the late 1980s to 76% in 2000, and it has stayed high since.

During the third-quarter earnings season, about half of S&P 500 companies have reported results and two-thirds of them have topped forecasts.

Upside surprises matter because studies show they tend to predict handsome stock performance in coming quarters. If companies have gotten better at managing expectations, and surprises have become commonplace, their predictive ability is likely to weaken.

But some surprises are more powerful than others.

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The Economy Slows Here and Abroad

November 19th, 2011 Emily Young No Comments »

And what we can do about it

From Macroeconomic Advisers and e-forecasting, some recent reads on the macroeconomy:

Macroeconomic Advisers monthly release for September has GDP flat, while e-forecasting (as of a week ago) has GDP essentially flat for October. As of this morning, MA’s tracking forecast has Q4 growth at 3.2%. Short term, it may be growth will continue. But see also Berge, Elias, and Jordà (2011).

Given my bias as an open economy macroeconomist, I look to the rest of the world to think about what is going to happen, given the trajectory of external sources of demand.

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Should You Be Mad That Free Checking Accounts Are Becoming a Thing of the Past?

November 18th, 2011 Kevin Clark No Comments »

Wait, they charge fees for checking accounts? This has become a common refrain as more and more consumers around the country are all of a sudden finding monthly fees on their previously free checking accounts. Aside from initial bewilderment, people are responding with emotions that run the gamut all the way from anger to understanding. But, how should you really feel about added monthly fees on your bank account?

It’s understandable that you might at first be angry about having to shell out monthly payments for a service that used to free, but what if there was a good reason for the switch? T

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Complaints Rising Against Aggressive Debt Collectors

November 17th, 2011 Christina Hall No Comments »

Washington– As consumers struggle to pay their bills, complaints about debt collectors are growing faster than any other industry, federal regulators say.

The Federal Trade Commission reports that the number of complaints about debt collectors rose from 104,766 a year in 2008 to 140,036 in 2010, says Tom Pahl, assistant director of the FTC’s division of financial practices.

The agency has stepped up enforcement, taking 10 companies to court in the past three years, compared with six in the previous three years.

“We receive more complaints about the debt collection industry than any other industry,” Pahl says. “The conduct of debt collectors is a major consumer protection problem.”

A few months after she buried both her sons, Barbara Sowell started getting calls from a collection agency demanding payment for Garner & Son funeral home.

“They tortured me is what they did.

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HM Revenue & Customs plans tax crackdown on teachers and eBay traders

November 10th, 2011 Christina Hall No Comments »

Teachers who make extra cash from giving private lessons are now on the HM Revenue & Customs’ hitlist of potential tax cheats.

They join people who make a business of selling goods on the internet, personal trainers, tradesmen and businesses that fail to register for VAT as the latest targets of the tax crackdown.

Thousands of teachers make extra money tutoring children for exams — HMRC now wants its cut from these extra earnings.

Spying game: HMRC to trawl internet using ‘web robot’ software to catch people

 

Millions of pounds worth of goods are bought and sold on sites such as eBay and Amazon every day. HMRC ins

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Nevada Mortgage Broker Bond Update

November 6th, 2011 Emily Young No Comments »


Nevada mortgage broker surety requirements have been changed due to a new bill. The bill is labeled AB 77 and alters the bond amount required of mortgage brokers. The previous law stated that the bond amount was calculated by the number of branches that the broker had or its yearly loan volume. The set bond amount was $50,000 plus $25,000 for each branch, but was capped at $75,000; or the bond had to be $50,000 if the broker had less than $20 million in loan volume and $75,000 if the broker’s loan volume was over $20 million. AB 77 does away with the bond amount calculation using the number of branches. It’s now calculated by loan volume only. The

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