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Personal Bankruptcy Rate Rises 33 Percent in Third Quarter
Across the country, one symptom of the recession is the high rate of bankruptcy filings. A recent report indicates that the national bankruptcy rate rose 33 percent in the third quarter of 2009, as compared to the same time period last year. This spi...
Stop Foreclosures for Holidays, Rev. Jackson Tells Banks
Rev. Jesse Jackson is calling upon banks in Georgia to halt foreclosure proceedings through the end of the year in order to allow families to stay in their homes during the holidays. In a speech the steps of the Federal Home Loan Bank in Atlanta, Jac...
Thanksgiving Shoppers Show Financial Discipline
More Americans went shopping over Thanksgiving weekend than last year, but managed to shop more responsibly and spend less, according to an analysis reported by Bloomberg. According to the National Retail Federation, 195 million Americans went shoppi...
One Quarter of American Homeowners Underwater
New data released by First American CoreLogic, a real estate data company, indicates that a staggering 23 percent of American home mortgages are “underwater” – that is, the owners owe more money than their property is worth. By the Numbers Here...
Controversial Swim Club Files Bankruptcy
The Philadelphia-area swim club involved in a nationally publicized incident this summer after allegations of racial discrimination has filed for Chapter 7 bankruptcy due to legal fees from the incident, according to the Philadelphia Inquirer. In Jul...
Online Auctions Not Always such a Great Deal
The auction web site Swoopo.com may initially seem like a hotspot for amazing bargains – the front page includes products like laptops, digital cameras, and Windows 7 software. And the prices are astonishingly low: with a little more than four minu...

