Money | Debts | Financial Freedom

How to avoid debts and gain financial independence.


12 Apr

How Long Will This Last On My Credit Report


Last article I spoke about the amount of time that negative marks will remain on your credit score. Those ones weren’t so bad. Late Credit Card payments have the capacity to be way more damaging.

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20 Feb

Under 25 Dollars? Visa Says No Signature Needed


This week, Visa made an announcement stating that starting this summer it’s not going to require signatures for transactions of twenty five dollars or less. It will most likely bear the results of faster and smoother transactions but it could also chip away at the payments industry’s effort to move toward contactless technology.

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03 Feb

A Text Message From The Debt Collection Agency?


There is no doubt that text messaging has become a major medium for exchanging information. Easy, painless, no speaking on the phone. No wonder that according to the latest statistics that have been taken there were almost 750 billion text messages sent in the U.S. in 2009, almost double the number from one year before. Actually, technology and research firm executive Jacob D. Almeida recently predicted that money transfers will be the top mobile application by as early as 2012.

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28 Jan

Debt And Bankruptcy Advice For The Elderly


Older people are affected by the stress of the recession just as much as younger people. A good deal of them can’t work on account of physical and mental fragility, but still live in homes with mortgages. Some may have maxed out credit cards, but with no employment and minimal help from Medicare, social security checks, and retirement funds there seems to be little they can do.

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