Text messaging isn’t just for teens! We think you’ll love to get your daily dose of Orange County real estate headlines on your cell phone. The Register real estate news team is now text messaging every day the top Orange … Read More
Scroll down for a summary of last week and a look ahread (or click here ). First, via NPR: The Super Bowl Stock Market Predictor The Super Bowl Stock Market Predictor holds that if a team from the old NFL … Read More
Every other Sunday, The Simple Dollar reviews a personal finance book of interest. 1/2 Price Living by Ellie Kay has a particularly noteworthy subtitle: Secrets to Living Well on One Income . A quick read of the back makes it … Read More
Ever hear that Alanis Morisette song, ” ironic” ? The funny thing about it was that the lyrics didn’t pose much if any irony leaving the only irony to be that she wrote a song about a word but didn’t really know what the … Read More
When a home’s value falls below 75% of the amount owed, a homeowner starts to think seriously about just walking away, even if he or she has the money to keep up payments, according to a recent story in the New York Times … Read More
We all have lives that are chock full of distractions. Television. Radio. Magazines. The behavior of other people. The comments of our friends and family. We use all of these things as cues for how we should behave. Often, we … Read More
From Kenneth Harney in the LA Times: ‘Cash-in’ refis growing in popularity In Freddie Mac’s latest quarterly survey of refinancings, 33% of homeowners put cash into the deal to lower their mortgage balances, the highest percentage ever. By contrast, only … Read More
Bloomberg — Nouriel Roubini talks with Bloomberg’s Carol Massar and Matt Miller about the outlook for the U.S. stock market. Roubini also discusses the risk of sovereign-debt default, necessary steps to reduce government debt and the likelihood of aid for … Read More
A couple of past favorites, standup economist Yoram Bauman (see his classic Principles of economics, translated ) and singer Merle Hazard ( Inflation or Deflation? and H-E-D-G-E ), appear in the video …
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From Michelle Singletary at the WaPo: Paying your credit card bill before the mortgage TransUnion … recently released a report showing that an increasing number of consumers are choosing to pay their credit card bills before their monthly mortgages. … … Read More