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On Your Side: Get out of debt and clean up your credit at the same ... - WRDW-TV

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AUGUSTA---With today's sour economy many folks with bad credit may turn to shady credit repair firms to get things sorted out. ...

Banks charge steep fees for overdraft protection: FDIC - MarketWatch

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You write checks for a $15 magazine subscription, followed by a $200 roof repair. If you have more than $15 in your account, you'd think that check would ...

On Your Side: Get out of debt and clean up your credit at the same time (News 12 Augusta)

Posted: 08 Dec 2008 05:55 PM CST

With today's sour economy many folks with bad credit may turn to shady credit repair firms to get things sorted out. Unfortunately, experts say that will only make things worse.

Bundle up! 'Credit Winter' is coming (Bankrate.com)

Posted: 08 Dec 2008 05:54 AM CST

Dear Debt Adviser, We received notice that if we did not use a credit card we have had for many years in the near future, it would be canceled. Is this a problem, since we have other cards and really have not used the card that's in jeopardy? Does this cancellation affect one's credit rating?

Why Not Bring Cash Back Home? (New York Times)

Posted: 08 Dec 2008 08:12 PM CST

The idea of giving companies incentives to repatriate cash held by foreign subsidiaries hasn?t been widely discussed, but it should be.

Boost the economy, get America working (Miami Herald)

Posted: 08 Dec 2008 02:20 AM CST

There aren't a whole lot of people in the country who can honestly say that they understand how the government's $700 billion -- and growing -- bailout plan is supposed to work. Buying up toxic assets in credit markets and throwing money at uncooperative banks in hopes of jump-starting the economy aren't the kind of things you learn in Econ 101. And so far, those efforts have done nothing to ...

Area governments fare better than some in bond market (The Bradford Era)

Posted: 08 Dec 2008 03:24 AM CST

As the widening credit crisis begins to infiltrate the once-safe municipality bond market, communities nationwide are feeling the pinch of ballooning payments, resulting from rising interest rates.