Getting a mortgage while holding student loan debt can be tricky — and not just for the obvious reason (a big loan payment can be a budget killer). When making mortgage decisions, lenders sometimes don’t know how to treat all the various repayment plans that student borrowers can utilize. Recently, [Keep reading]
Choice. It makes a free market work. Yet how many times recently have you tried to do everyday things like book a flight, purchase cable TV, get Internet service, even buy eyeglasses…and discovered you don’t really have much of a choice. Instead, you face a giant corporate monopoly. Sure, perhaps [Keep reading]
About 0.2 percent (of 4%, so really, 0008%). Or 38 out of 3,143 counties. Or 24,525 people in a nation of 325 million people. Might not have access to Obamacare subsidized health insurance next year (though they may very well be able to buy un-subsidized health care plans) That’s your death spiral [Keep reading]
Rusty’s rating — 8 on a scale of 1-10 (but really, incomplete). Pittsburgh is HOT. It’s Silicon Valley East for some folks. It’s the home of self-driving cars, still-within-reach real estate, and a rapidly expanding foodie population. And what happens when you get an influx of young techies in a [Keep reading]
Let’s talk about American’s crumbling infrastructure and what needs to be done about it. Even in deeply divided America, I have found that on this point, there is wide agreement. You can’t travel through an airport in America today, or ride on a train, or bump your way down a [Keep reading]
While you were busy watching the melodramatic Jim Comey testimony on Trump and Russian hacking, the House of Representatives was busy voting to roll financial reforms passed in the wake of the 2008 economic collapse. The partly-line vote could is meant to end numerous consumer protections, including rules government payday loans [Keep reading]
While folks are consumed by the testimony of former FBI Director Jim Comey — almost certain to be a letdown — take a moment to look around at the action that’s really happening in Washington D.C. Comey is going to say a bunch of things we already know. Your attention [Keep reading]
Montana Congressional candidate Greg Gianforte, whose name suddenly landed on all American’ lips Wednesday night, also plays a role in wallets. Gianforte was involved in an altercation with a journalist on the eve of an election for a vacated seat in the House of Representatives. Gianforte is also on the board [Keep reading]
The 43 million Americans with student loans — and the millions more who will take out their first college loans this fall — should pay close attention to President Donald Trump’s proposed 2018 budget. It requests dramatic changes to the help offered to borrowers, calling for an end to many [Keep reading]
“On tilt.” You gotta know when to hold ’em, and know when to fold ’em. Sadly, folding is something very few people do well. Hey, it happens to the best of us. Poker players end up “on tilt” all the time. Being on tilt means letting your emotions get in [Keep reading]
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