August, 2010
Hurricane Earl is getting bigger as Hurricane Katrina anniversary goes by
The fifth anniversary of Hurricane Katrina decimating New Orleans has just passed. In a strangely ironic twist, there is one more serious tropical storm building in the Caribbean. Hurricane Earl, as it is called, was previously tropical storm Earl, but has gathered sufficient force to be designated a hurricane. There has already been damage on ...
College rankings from U.S. News
U.S. News college rankings were announced on Tuesday: Harvard is yet again the top. Princeton has made it into second again. Yale is third with their Ivy League bias. Those are just the national college rankings: Since money is a major part of the list, those in academia tend to criticize it. When deciding which ...
Working on getting debt consolidation
Numerous want to divest their debt when the economy is so bad. Trying to get a better interest rate with a mortgage loan modification is an idea while numerous still settle their extra debts by just getting a second mortgage. The market started to tank making many of the strategies fail miserably. It is hard ...
Americans like Social Security continuing
Cutting social security to fix the deficit is not an idea that Americans like according to a survey funded by AARP and conducted by GfK Roper. Cutting Social Security is not wanted by 85 percent of American's, reports the Huffington Post. Within the survey, 72 percent "strongly opposes" this action.
Anybody with Social Security benefits say ...
20 percent of homeowners have underwater mortgage loans
Recent studies reveal that 20 percent of Americans owe more on their homes than the home is worth. That means 1 in 5 individuals would not benefit from mortgage loan modification even if they could get it. The number of underwater home loans is slowly decreasing though. Nevertheless, that decrease is partly due to the ...
