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Annual “Lambs to the Slaughter” ritual has begun
It's that time of the year again. Holiday spending was up another 5% this year to …. get this….. $457.4 Billion. As reported By Parija B. Kavilanz, CNNMoney.com staff writer in the article found here. That's right, billion with a “B". And, once the credit card bills begin to get delivered…. the slaughter will begin. Many might be thinking that I'm going to drone on about the high cost of credit, how long it will take to pay off those credit cards, fees, penalties, etc… Not this time. The ritual that I'm referring to is mortgage refinancing. Every year thousands of homeowners find themselves in a little trouble with last years spending habits. And this year many people are going to get the old Double Whammy with roughly 12% of adjustable mortgages coming due. Scratching their heads trying to figure out how they will make ends meet, refinancing (or debt consolidation) begins to look appealing.
Britons Face Billion-Pound Interest Payback
One in four people is struggling with their debts as Britons collectively face a 93bn annual bill for interest. At the same time, around three million people have taken out a debt consolidation loan to try to get on top of their borrowings. Borrowing through credit cards, loans, overdrafts and mortgages has hit almost 1.4 trillion, according to comparison website uSwitch.com. An estimated 9.5m people had "maxed out" on one form of credit during the past six months, while 38% have had a credit card application rejected, the group claims. But nearly two-thirds of these failed to close down their existing credit facilities, and instead went on to rack up a further 2,300 of debt on average. Overall, the research found that the average household has now amassed unsecured debts of 4,281.
Credit card industry tries to hook young people
All major banking institutions pay big money to colleges and universities for on-campus recruiting rights, offering students low initial interest rates and/or other sweetheart deals if they accept a credit card. The rest of us get solicitations through our phone or the mails.Seductive sales campaigns focus on high school graduates and for all kinds of items that TV, movies or society has told them they want, need, should have because they deserve it and others have, so why don't they? Car dealers offer "one-time sales events" to first-time wage earners, high-end electronic stores give 90-day-same-as-cash deals and guarantee that no one will be turned down, furniture showrooms offer newlyweds "no payments 'til next year," cell phones, Internet providers, cable companies, satellite dish outfits all make it sound as if you can't have a decent life without their help.All this has given birth to an additional parasite - the debt-consolidation, paycheck-cashing, payday-loan, instant-refinancing-of-your-car (and you get to keep your car - 'til they come to take it away) industry.Public schools teach kids how to drive, play sports, fit a condom, take birth control pills, find an abortionist or fill out a job application at McDonald's.
Waterloo a hotbed for poker prodigies
Meh. So what if some student won a tournament. Big deal.
Poker is not a real sport. Any real sport is one where you have the best players dominating over the rest of the field. Think Woods and golf, Gretzky and hockey.
In poker, once you reach a certain level, you won't have much of an edge over your opponent. Phil Ivey will never dominate the World Series of Poker due to the nature of the game.
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Crombie's future now a soap opera, says SL chairman
You are right number 2 and in my opinion what went on in 2003/04 in SL was no different from Leeson, LTCM and the SocGen guy. In each case there are big losses because of being badly positioned in the market and in each case they ignore the growing losses due to either denial, ego (they are right and the market is wrong) or a combination of both. SL was overweight equities all the way down in a raging bear market. The FSA was just acting as a risk manager should and stopping them out. I wonder if they will have an underweight equities view in the coming mega bear market. .
Informant cracks Hells again
A member of the Zig Zag Crew, the puppet gang for the Hells Angels. He was also in custody at the time of his arrest. He is pending trial on charges a man was beaten and had his car taken in a drug-related incident last February. Charges: Trafficking in a controlled substance (cocaine). BENJAMIN JAMES HAMLIN, 23 A resident of Warroad, Minn., he was arrested Nov. 22 at the Canadian border for allegedly trying to smuggle guns into Manitoba. He had been granted bail, but was still in custody trying to meet the conditions of his release when he was re-arrested yesterday. Charges: Conspiracy to import firearms into Canada, unlawful importation of a firearm and unlawful transfer of a firearm. WAYNE ALBERT HOLMES, 50 A resident of Winnipeg.
More details emerge on Super Bowl massacre plot
The man whom the FBI accuses of planning a Super Bowl massacre sent his rambling missives in red, white and blue envelopes to media heavyweights and locally run Web sites, according to court records unsealed Friday. Super Bowl massacre averted at last minute Gun in Super Bowl plot was banned, now popular Drunkensteins bar name scares off Tempe Kurt Havelock, who turned himself in to authorities Feb. 3, also sent letters explaining his plan to a federal employment office in Pennsylvania, his parents in Surprise and a woman in Chandler. The envelope to the Chandler woman also contained $928 in cash, a Home Depot credit card, a Visa card and keys, according to a list of items seized for evidence. Havelock is being held without bail on suspicion of sending threats through the mail.
Rivera Takes on Anti-Immigrant Fervor in 'His Panic'
No one calls me Jerry, and you can't call me Jerry unless you knew me before 1950.' " Rivera says the Hispanic assimilation experience is no different from that of previous immigrants. "Many of the most fervent anti-immigrant activists are themselves the children or grandchildren of immigrants," he says. "The style changes, the accents change, the geographical antecedents change, but it's the same. You can track headline for headline the response to the Irish wave of immigration in the mid-19th century to the reaction of the Minutemen and similar radical anti-immigration groups today." Those people who say they're worried about border security are being disingenuous, Rivera says. "Are you really concerned about 'border security,' or are you concerned about the changing demographic face of the United States? [For] example, if it is terrorism that you are concerned about and you want this fence built between the United States and Mexico, why don't you want the same fence built between the United States and Canada? Why isn't there this clamor ...
Tell us your story
The tough times finally took their toll. Danny sold the restaurant, but before we went our separate ways, he gave every employee some extra money to help out. My family lost touch with him. But if you're reading this Danny, I want you to know that your kindness will never be forgotten. Maria Chow, Toronto About twenty-five years ago my wife and I were driving from Toronto to Montreal for a friend's wedding. We stopped for breakfast in a little restaurant in Grafton. Later, around Kingston, my wife discovered she had left her purse there. We had no idea what the restaurant was called and no time to turn back. In desperation, I called the OPP detachment in Cobourg from a phone booth at the Service Centre, explained our predicament, and asked if they could find the name and number of the restaurant.
Unsecured Internet purchases could prove disastrous
Students who regularly make online purchases from campus computers or from the university's wireless network might want to take some precautionary steps before punching in their credit card numbers. “If [students] are using the encrypted wireless [network], I think that's fine," said James Shook of Technology Support Services. “[But] I don't think I'd be doing that on the visitor's [network], which anyone can get on."Students can obtain a password for the secured wireless network at www.nss.appstate.edu. Appalachian State also offers free anti-virus software with built-in firewall and anti-spyware protection at www.antivirus.appstate.edu. Students transferring data should do so from secure Web sites, which are signified by “https" in the Uniform Resource Locator (URL) or a secure lock graphic, said Director of Technology Support Tom M.
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