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I received this letter about my show on August 17th, which featured John Ventura, an author and attorney in Texas, and director of the Texas Consumer Complaint Center.
I enjoy your show when I have a chance to listen but wanted to mention something about the program on the 17th. You interviewed an…
Topics: probate
For a while it seemed that commuters were changing their driving habits in response to high gas prices. Apparently, the change was less dramatic than some media made it out to be.
A recent survey found:
-One in four (26%) working Americans say they have made adjustments to their commuting habits in…
Topics: personal finance advice
The first unofficial Labor Day was September 5, 1882. President Grover Cleveland signed it into law in 1894, designating the first Monday in September as Labor Day. As of May this year, 154.5 million Americans worked: 82.6 million men and 71.9 million women. Among Americans working full time, 82…
Topics: self-employed
The number of cases of mortgage fraud reported to a mortgage fraud tracking database increased by 42 percent during the first quarter of 2008 from the same time last year, according to MARI, the Mortgage Asset Research Institute, an industry research company.
The most common type of mortgage fraud…
Topics: mortgage fraud
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