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The SV Blog: August 2010
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Author of Going Broke: Why Americans Can't Hold On To Their Money. Sunday, August 15, 2010. Lashing Your Credit Card to the Mast. In the final chapter of my 2008 book. Going Broke: Why Americans Can’t Hold On To Their Money,. Now, MasterCard and Citigroup will for the first time introduce a similar program called inControl. In a New York Times article entitled “Your Card Has Been Declined, Just as You Wanted,”. Lieber asks the obvious question:. There is also good evidence that, given a chance, many cons...
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The SV Blog: November 2010
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Author of Going Broke: Why Americans Can't Hold On To Their Money. Saturday, November 6, 2010. Many people who were carrying debt while employed are now out of work and desperate for a way out from under their financial obligations. Personal bankruptcies have been rising steadily since 2005, and the most recent statistics. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). Subscribe in a reader. Going Broke at Amazon.com. The Album of the Summer. Warren Reports on the Middle Class. Americans for Fairness in Lending.
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The SV Blog: Television Messages
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Author of Going Broke: Why Americans Can't Hold On To Their Money. Saturday, November 6, 2010. Many people who were carrying debt while employed are now out of work and desperate for a way out from under their financial obligations. Personal bankruptcies have been rising steadily since 2005, and the most recent statistics. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). Subscribe in a reader. Going Broke at Amazon.com. The Album of the Summer. Warren Reports on the Middle Class. Americans for Fairness in Lending.
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The SV Blog: The Blockbuster Bankruptcy and the Physics of Spending
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Author of Going Broke: Why Americans Can't Hold On To Their Money. Friday, September 24, 2010. The Blockbuster Bankruptcy and the Physics of Spending. Today the word came down. That Blockbuster Video had filed for chapter 11 bankruptcy protection. A company founded in 1985 and once the dominant video rental company in the country had fallen. The reason, of course, was Netflix and the physics of spending. Going Broke: Why American’s Can’t Hold On To Their Money. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). View my...
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The SV Blog: January 2010
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Author of Going Broke: Why Americans Can't Hold On To Their Money. Thursday, January 14, 2010. The morality of ditching your obligations. In a piece entitled “Walk Away From Your Mortgage”. Who could pay their mortgages. So homeowners are expected to be moral, while businesses are free to be self-interested economic entities. Not homo economicus. Furthermore, Lowenstein points out that those who walk away from their mortgages are not avoiding the consequences of their decisions. The consequence of no...
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The SV Blog: February 2010
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Author of Going Broke: Why Americans Can't Hold On To Their Money. Wednesday, February 17, 2010. Desperate for Money in Oakland. While checking my email and enjoying a Venti-sized Pike Place Roast at a Starbucks near the Oakland International Airport, I spied the sign above on a building across the street. Title loans are typically short-term loans at very high interest rates. For example, a 30-day loan at 25% interest is the equivalent of 300% APR. Some title loans have APRs of over 600%. Desperate for ...
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The SV Blog: Cortney Munna Responds
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Author of Going Broke: Why Americans Can't Hold On To Their Money. Tuesday, June 1, 2010. Cortney Munna, the debt-burdened NYU graduate featured in a recent. And in my last blog post. Responds today to the more than 600 comments posted to the original. Article. She writes very eloquently and accepts responsibility for her plight, although she says she wants to fight to “re-write the rules of the student loan game as it relates to loan underwriting, counseling and the bankruptcy laws. Subscribe in a reader.
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The SV Blog: February 2009
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Author of Going Broke: Why Americans Can't Hold On To Their Money. Sunday, February 22, 2009. More Adventures in Debt. Buying gas today, I noticed a sticker on the pump: “Now you can prepay with your credit card at the pump.” All self service pumps are designed to accept credit cards, so why would you prepay a fixed amount of money rather than just swiping your card and pumping? Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). Subscribe in a reader. Going Broke at Amazon.com. The Album of the Summer. Be, Live, Buy Different.
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The SV Blog: A Costly College Education
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Author of Going Broke: Why Americans Can't Hold On To Their Money. Tuesday, June 1, 2010. A Costly College Education. The college commencement addresses have all been delivered, and new graduates are faced with the realities of a slower economy and no diminution in the accumulation of student debt. Ron Leiber of The New York Times recently profiled. Cortney Munna, a 2005 NYU graduate who is carrying almost $100,000 in student loan debt. Today National Public Radio ran a story. The question is not whether...
