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The email was sent out from Treasury at 7:03pm last night. Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson is asking for $700 billion to bail out the bad mortgages still being held by world financial markets.
$700 Billion? Are you serious? It's really more like $1.3 TRILLION already:
Bear Stearns $25 to $50 billion…
Topics: mortgage, mortgage lenders, mortgage fraud, HUD, freddie mac, fannie mae
Chef Sean called to say that he finds time and food go together. If you want to eat fast, then it's going to cost you a lot. But he says that buying some technology can really help you save money -- and make the food taste great.
He suggests buying a bread machine and either a slow cooker or a…
Topics: housewares, home technology
I've been talking about how to save money at the grocery store. Some of my suggestions include stretching milk with powdered milk and water, buying the 2-for-1 specials, buying meat and cheese in bulk or on the last day it's good and then freezing half of what you make, buying at the low end of the…
Topics: save money, consumer advice
Folks, I'm going to go out on a limb and say that when we look back next year, we're going to see that September 2008 is at the bottom or is part of the bottom of the real estate market collapse.
Why? We had a call on the Ilyce Glink Show this morning from Carmen, a 30-year real estate agent in…
Topics: real estate advice, real estate, real estate investment, real estate market, home buying
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