Weekly Round Up – May 15, 2014

Before we get to the good reads! Check out this beastly resource on The Mileage Plus Credit Card: How it Made my Trip an Affair to Remember, and let me know what you think. A Few Good Reads Here are a few of my favorite reads from the past week. 1. Young Adults, Student Debt and Economic Well-Being:  Student debt burdens are weighing on the economic fortunes of younger Americans, as households headed by young adults owing student debt lag far behind their peers in terms of wealth accumulation, according to a new Pew Research Center analysis of government data. About four-in-ten...

Weekly Round Up – May 02, 2014

Before we get to the good reads! Check out this beastly resource on When You Have Taken on More Work Than You Can Handle, and let me know what you think. A Few Good Reads Here are a few of my favorite reads from the past week. 1. Ukraine’s failure to pay gas debt may cut gas supply to Europe – Russia’s energy minister:  Ukraine’s growing gas debt may lead to the failure of the country’s transit obligations and the reduction of gas supplies to south-eastern Europe, said the Russian Energy Ministry. (more…)

Weekly Round Up – April 25, 2014

Before we get to the good reads! Check out this beastly resource on Maintain Open Communication with Your Virtual Assistant and Get Better Services, and let me know what you think. A Few Good Reads Here are a few of my favorite reads from the past week. 1. Students can avoid drowning in debt with student loans:  Students should only borrow money they feel comfortable repaying, a representative of a local credit union said in a session on building or rebuilding credit. (more…)

Weekly Round Up – April 04, 2014

Before we get to the good reads! Check out this beastly resource on Franchising An Online Business, and let me know what you think. A Few Good Reads Here are a few of my favorite reads from the past week. 1. Student loans is second largest source of debt in US households, says recent study:  Steven Sabel, a former firefighter, decided to go to law school after a knee injury prevented him from returning to duty. He had wanted to be a lawyer since he was young. Sabel, now a second-year student at UCLA, is financing his degree almost entirely on loans....

Weekly Round Up – March 21, 2014

Before we get to the good reads! Check out this beastly resource on Mutual Fund Types and Investment Tips, and let me know what you think. A Few Good Reads Here are a few of my favorite reads from the past week. 1. Who’s to blame for exhorbinant student loan debt?  Every so often some politician makes it their (brief) mission to address the burdens of overwhelming student loan debt. Universally overlooked is that these students chose their institutes of higher learning knowing exactly what the costs of education would be. They intentionally overlooked smaller, less prestigious schools such as State colleges...

Weekly Round Up – March 14, 2014

Before we get to the good reads! Check out this beastly resource on Determining your Target Market, and let me know what you think. A Few Good Reads Here are a few of my favorite reads from the past week. 1. 7 pieces of terrible debt advice:  Asking for advice is one of those things that can either be helpful or disastrous — it depends on the topic and who’s offering tips. When it comes to get-out-of-debt advice, the stakes are high, so choose your advisers carefully and keep an open mind when it’s time to make decisions. It’s not so much...

Weekly Round Up – February 14, 2014

Before we get to the good reads! Check out this beastly resource on Saving For The Future, and let me know what you think. A Few Good Reads Here are a few of my favorite reads from the past week. 1. House passes debt-ceiling increase with no add-ons:  House Republicans backed away from a battle over the government’s debt cap on Tuesday and permitted President Barack Obama’s Democratic allies to drive quick passage of a measure to increase the government’s borrowing cap without any concessions from the White House. (more…)

Weekly Round Up – January 31, 2014

Before we get to the good reads! Check out this beastly resource on What is Web Marketing, and let me know what you think. A Few Good Reads Here are a few of my favorite reads from the past week. 1. The Three Reasons Why The Debt Ceiling Could Become A Nightmare Again:  Congress will need to either hike or suspend the nation’s debt ceiling in February, and so far, senators on both sides of the aisle are predicting this fight will be much less climactic than previous squabbles in 2013 and 2011. (more…)

Weekly Round Up – January 24, 2014

Before we get to the good reads! Check out this beastly resource on Tips for the Online Marketer, and let me know what you think. A Few Good Reads Here are a few of my favorite reads from the past week. 1. Debt advice clinic: put your questions to our panel  The third week of January can be a struggle for many people, and debt charities report that it is one of their busiest times. It feels like a long time since the last pay packet, and bank balances could be running low. Bills for credit cards and other borrowing will start...

Weekly Round Up – January 17, 2014

Before we get to the good reads! Check out this beastly resource on Using Facebook as an Online Public Relation and Social Marketing Tool, and let me know what you think. A Few Good Reads Here are a few of my favorite reads from the past week. 1.How to write off debt and be debt free:  Finding a way to write off debt and become debt free is something that many people experiencing debt problems consider at some point in time. There are a number of formal and legal debt solutions that will enable you to write off your unaffordable debt...

Weekly Round Up – January 03, 2014

Before we get to the good reads! Check out this beastly resource on Innovative Internet Marketing Ideas, and let me know what you think. A Few Good Reads Here are a few of my favorite reads from the past week. 1. Mortgage rise will plunge a million homeowners into ‘perilous debt’:  More than a million homeowners will be at risk of defaulting on their mortgages and losing their properties in the wake of even a small rise in interest rates, a bombshell analysis reveals. Borrowers who have failed to pay down their mortgages when interest rates have been at record low levels...

Weekly Round Up – December 06, 2013

Before we get to the good reads! Check out this beastly resource on why private cloud hosting, and let me know what you   think. A Few Good Reads Here are a few of my favorite reads from the past week. 1. There is no debt ceiling crisis – just an erroneous fixation with the West Wing:  The way the Coalition has carried on in recent weeks, you’d be forgiven for thinking that Australia was in the grip of a US-style debt ceiling crisis threatening to shut down our government and our very way of life. (more…)

Weekly Round Up – November 29, 2013

Before we get to the good reads! Check out this beastly resource on how to start a blog, and let me know what you   think. A Few Good Reads Here are a few of my favorite reads from the past week. 1. America’s health care cost slowdown and the disappearing debt:  Six years after the start of the Great Recession, there should be little disagreement what America’s number one domestic priority should be. With unemployment still stuck around 7 percent four plus years after that recession was declared “over,” creating jobs has to be Job #1. (more…)

Weekly Round Up – November 01, 2013

Before we get to the good reads! Check out this beastly resource on how to build passive income, and let me know what you  think. A Few Good Reads Here are a few of my favorite reads from the past week. 1. What the Senate Didn’t Do on the Debt Ceiling:  With both chambers of Congress back in session on Tuesday, budget theatrics returned to Capitol Hill. In the legislative equivalent of a double negative, the Senate voted down a resolution blocking the president from extending the country’s borrowing limit. In other words: The Treasury can still borrow money to pay the country’s...

Weekly Round Up – October 18, 2013

Before we get to the good reads! Check out this beastly resource on how to start a blog, and let me know what you  think. A Few Good Reads Here are a few of my favorite reads from the past week. 1. Senate stalls bi-partisan debt ceiling deal to end government shutdown:  With only five days left to a possible default, there is yet no unity in the US senate with Republicans and Democrats rejecting each other’s proposal to end the 12-day-old government shutdown. (more…)