The Truth of Credit

Yesterday, after my girlfriend and I watched a marathon of The Housewives of Orange County (see above) I came to realize how grateful I am. I’m so blessed that my family taught me the value of a dollar. I am not knocking how these women live, because I’m pretty jealous, but the extremely superficial way [...]

I was originally planning on writing about the best things to buy on Black Friday. Then after doing some research, I found that there are multiple stories behind the term Black Friday and where it came from. So I have compiled a few of the stories I found although no one seems to want to [...]

Let’s face it folks, it’s the Holiday Season and with all that good cheer comes a price. No one loves the holidays or being with family more than I, but come January 15th all the fun and excitement has faded when I go out to my snow covered mailbox and find a nice New Year’s [...]

With identity thieves creating havoc with consumers and businesses alike, The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) is doing its best to fight back with some new legislation. They are requiring all financial institutions/creditors to provide responses and programs for prevention practices known as “red flags” which are the calling cards of identity thieves.  This rule was [...]

Around the time I was leaving work today I heard that Tim Geithner was going to be the new Treasury Secretary on the news.  The name sounded familiar to me but I really had no idea who the guy was.  At the time I thought nothing of it but once I saw how high the [...]