Archive for July, 2007

Suze Orman gives advice on Adjustable Rate Mortgages

Thursday, July 26th, 2007

Payday loan industry launches major ad campaign (KVAL Eugene)
Payday loan industry launches major ad campaign (KVAL Eugene)
For years, the payday loan industry has kept a low public profile - quietly taking blows from consumer advocates and politicians critical of its high interest loans. Now, a national association of payday lenders is playing offense with a major ad campaign.

Open Source Micro Finance

Thursday, July 26th, 2007

This video describes a bit about the Grameen Foundation and their efforts to create an Open Source Software solution to facilitate the use of microfinance to alleviate worlds poverty.

Wednesday, July 25th, 2007

Moore joins payday lending trade group (The State)
Moore joins payday lending trade group (The State)
Former S.C. Sen. Tommy Moore, the Democratic candidate for governor in 2006, is going to work for a national payday lending trade association. Moore, of Aiken, resigned his Senate seat Saturday. He will become executive vice president of the Community Financial Services Association of America and will move to the Washington area, the association said Monday. At this point in my career, I saw an …

Hearing on Predatory Lending: Kucinich Opening Statement

Wednesday, July 25th, 2007

The Oversight Subcommittee on Domestic Policy takes an in-depth look at the predatory mortgages, payday loans, and foreclosures that plague inner-city America. This will be the first in a series of hearings Subcommittee Chairman Kucinich plans to hold looking at various issues afflicting urban America.

Theory of Finance Tutorial One Question 4 Part c

Wednesday, July 25th, 2007

Theory of Finance Tutorial One Question 4 Part c

Salam Cafe Season Two (Episode Fifteen)

Wednesday, July 25th, 2007

Payday lenders may run out of cache in D.C. (The Washington Examiner)
Payday lenders may run out of cache in D.C. (The Washington Examiner)
The D.C. Council moved ahead Tuesday on a bill that would restrict the sky-high interest rates levied by so-called "payday" lenders, ignoring an analysis by the city’s finance office that the proposal would cost the city more than half a million dollars in revenues.

Hearing on Subprime Mortgages: Clay on Race

Wednesday, July 25th, 2007

Cash America to offer online cash advances in UK (Finextra)
Cash America to offer online cash advances in UK (Finextra)
Cash America International (NYSE: CSH) announced today that it will begin offering online cash advances to customers who live in the United Kingdom.

Wednesday, July 25th, 2007

Concerns for growth in sub-prime <b>mortgage</b> lending
Concerns for growth in sub-prime <b>mortgage</b> lending
Datamonitor, the independent market analyst, has published research showing that the sub-prime <b>mortgage</b> sector in the UK is likely to expand faster than the mainstream sector. Sub-prime <b>mortgages</b> are taken out by people who have poor <b>…</b>

Dec. 2006 ON Standing Committee on Finance Presentation

Tuesday, July 24th, 2007

Canadian Federation of Students Ontario presentation to the Legislative Assembly of Ontario Standing Committee on Finance and Economic Affairs for 2007 pre-budget consultations.

Hearing on Predatory Lending: Kucinich Opening Statement

Tuesday, July 24th, 2007

The Oversight Subcommittee on Domestic Policy takes an in-depth look at the predatory mortgages, payday loans, and foreclosures that plague inner-city America. This will be the first in a series of hearings Subcommittee Chairman Kucinich plans to hold looking at various issues afflicting urban America.