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There is a debtors’ revolt going on over on YouTube. Basically when the credit card companies raise the interest rate, people revolt and pledge not to stop paying. The woman who started this was on Suze Orman tonight. Bank of America jacked up her rate to 30% from 12.99% despite the fact that she was [...]

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Joan Adams is living out of a Motel 6 in the suburbs of Orange County, California. She lost her home to foreclosure. Theres no one out there to help, Joan says. Billions of dollars to all the banks for bailouts for something they caused, and yet were the ones that are homeless. Tomorrow, Congress will [...]

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Outer Banks Real Estate Tips claims that Fear and Greed drive real estate rather than supply and demand. Greed doesn’t drive someone to buy at the lowest possible price frugality does. The housing bubble was driven in part by greedy people with access to easy credit flipping houses. Anyway Outer Banks home prices have fallen [...]

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Frugal Fashionista Spends $4.96 on Dream Dress for Inaugural Ball. The new word is Frugalista. As the salesclerk subtracted extra discounts and a $25 coupon, I daydreamed about up-dos and strappy sandals. Then the clerk said the words that slapped me awake: “That’ll be four ninety-six.” Blinking, I said, “Excuse me?” “The dress is $4.96,” [...]

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Actors Bacon, Sedgwick among Madoff victims./a> NEW YORK – Call it six degrees of Bernard Madoff. Kevin Bacon and wife Kyra Sedgwick are among the many victims of the massive Ponzi scheme run by the disgraced New York money manager. Bacon’s publicist, Allen Eichhorn, confirmed Tuesday that the couple had investments with Madoff. He wouldn’t [...]

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Shoplifting is on the rise in this Bush economy. I’ve noticed more security guards this Holiday shopping season. Even at small stores like 5 Below. Retailers have blamed the global financial crisis for a litany of ills over the past year: slumping sales, mass layoffs and bankruptcy filings. Now, they are looking to the economy [...]

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An Investor who lost $1.4B to Madoff kills himself. It wouldn’t surprise me if this Madoff Ponzi scheme claims more victims. NEW YORK – He was a distinguished investor who traced his lineage to the French aristocracy, hobnobbed with members of European high society and sailed around the world on fancy yachts. But after losing [...]

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Daily Kos: Senate to Middle Class: Drop Dead …a message from Michael Moore But even doing all that wasn’t enough to satisfy the bastard Republicans. These Senate vampires wanted blood. Blue collar blood. You see, they weren’t opposed to the bailout because they believed in the free market or capitalism. No, they were opposed to [...]

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Prosper.com Shutdown by SEC

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Obama Backs Workers Staging Sit-In CHICAGO (Dec. 8) – Laid-off workers staging a sit-in at their abruptly shuttered factory are “going strong” and have no plans to give up the protest over severance and vacation pay, a union leader said Monday. Representatives of the Republic Windows and Doors plant were to meet later Monday with [...]

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Wal-Mart worker dies after shoppers knock him down – washingtonpost.com NEW YORK — A Wal-Mart worker was killed Friday when “out-of-control” shoppers desperate for bargains broke down the doors at a 5 a.m. sale. Other workers were trampled as they tried to rescue the man, and customers shouted angrily and kept shopping when store officials [...]

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Anyone willing to chain themselves to prevent foreclosure has courage. But even if she can keep her home I think the mortgage payment would be like a chain around her. I don’t think there should be a mortgage moratorium.

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Oprah’s Favorite Things 2008 is going to be funny today. I can’t wait after the audience goes ape-crazy about Oprah’s Favorite Things to hear her say “This is going to be a frugal favorite things show.” I can’t wait for the reactions to the $6 gifts she is giving away. It is going to be [...]

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Anthony Robbins said today on The Today Show that we are in new season: Winter. “Fast Car” is a song that best sums up these uncertain times.

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