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Will You Have Money For A Lifetime?
The financially literate manage their money for the long haul so they have money for a lifetime. In a world of biweekly paychecks and monthly billing cycles, it’s easy to let your perspective shrink to 30 day increments. But that view is incredibly short-sighted. Your working life isn’t everything Most of us don’t work for […]
Financial Lessons From Furloughed Federal Workers
The plight of workers going without pay because of the government shut down looms over our news. If our incomes haven’t been affected, it’s easy to see this as someone else’s problem. But are the rest of us really immune to the same financial straight? Over and over again, we hear that most U.S. families […]
Update Your Mental Money Software To 2.0
What kind of life style are you entitled to? When was your sense of your place in the economic world formed? Just like the anti virus software on our computers and the operating systems on our smart phones, our internal software about our money needs an update. Outdated expectations My theory: our view of how […]
Glimmer of Hope For Change In Student Loan Dischargeability
A small opening in the legal barrier to discharging student loans in bankruptcy has appeared in a case called Roth. To discharge a student loan in bankruptcy, the borrower must show that repayment of the loan would cause he and his dependents undue hardship. The test for what constitutes “undue hardship” is many circuits the […]
Don’t Let Your Bank Pick Your Pocket
The right of your bank to take your money when you aren’t looking stops at your credit card. Your bank may be entitled by common law to setoff what it owes you from what you owe it on the garden variety debt. But the federal Fair Credit Billing Act forbids a bank who has issued you a […]
My 7 Favorite Soapbox Posts Of 2014
I tallied the readership’s favorite posts of the year and found the list far different than mine. So here’s the counter-list of my favorite posts of 2014, drawn from material first published this year. Most impactful appellate decision Welsh was decided in 2013, but I talked about it on Soapbox in 2014: The Most Important […]
Best Of 2014 On Bankruptcy Soapbox
Here are the ten posts that most intrigued readers of Bankruptcy Soapbox in 2014. Some are new this year, and others are classics from earlier. In reverse order, the ten posts that spoke to you. 10. Six Rotten Reasons Not To File Bankruptcy Mortgage law attorney Bill Purdy walks through the misguided reasons his clients […]
Six Credit Card Scams You Need To Spot
One of the hazards in today’s society is becoming the victim of credit card fraud. It can happen in many ways. Here are six all-too-successful scams identified by the banking industry: Phony Data Breach You get a text message, claiming to be from your credit card company, alerting you that your card is blocked because of […]