At the end of May 2008, I was laid off from my job of 4 1/2 years due to the company’s inability to maintain it’s then-current employee base. I wasn’t too worried, as I had plenty of savings to cover almost 6 months worth of expenses in my HSBC Direct Online Savings account, plus [...]

Dear credit provider,
In light of the housing and credit crises of the past few years, I am left wondering about some of your practices in regard to the way you choose how to extend credit lines and how you deem certain applicants to be worthy of receiving a line of credit. In the past, [...]

The latest buzz has been all about the first wave of credit card reform laws to have taken effect. On August 20, 2009, credit card issuers must give cardholders 45 days notice before making any significant changes to the terms of the cardmember agreement, and must mail out bills 21 days before the due [...]

applying colchicine to daylilies

This is the first weekend of 2009, and the past week was rather a rather quiet one in terms of blog reading as well as posting.  A few highlights from the past week: tapering off of lexapro
Personal Happenings: soma
Finally completed the redesign of the GreenBridge Advisors Website, now I’m working on [...]

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Your credit cards are maxed out.  Your mortgage is spiraling out of control.  You have fallen behind on your car payments.  Then you see a commercial on television for a debt-consolidation company that promises to reduce your debt by 50% and they will fix your credit overnight.  You call them, looking [...]