Personal Finance and Investing

As June 6th, 2011 is quickly approaching, we are extremely pleased to have ADP as a presenting sponsor.  We were extremely successful last year and raised $35,000 for three local charities.  This year we plan to do the same or more for Sunnybrook, Jean Tweed and Ronald McDonald House.  We still have sponsorship opportunities available to find out more about them, please contact Lyndsey at 416-682-6007.

A big thank you to our current sponsors:

Presenting Sponsor ADP Gold Sponsor Deloitte Silver Sponsor BMO Bank of Montreal Golf Cart Chaitons LLP Beverage Cart VentureLink Registration UFCW Hole Sponsor RSM Richter Inc. Ma

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Credit cards create for their users a cycle which is vicious: charging for items when you do not have the money, and then finding it very hard to make the payments due to high interest. The average, in the middle, debt that is held by an American is over eight and a half thousand. By making only minimum payments, that American will pay the creditor $17,000, double what they owe. If a payment is late, you will pay much more.

One failing tactic is to jump from card to card, using low interest rates and promotional deals to the user’s advantage.

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We all gripe about our credit problems, whether you have a 550 credit score and don’t know the best secured credit card to get, or you have a 750 and still can’t qualify for that coveted American Express card.

Even though our credit problems are different, there are a handful of shared reasons why many consumers just can’t seem to get their credit score to climb.

Here’s a quick look at our top 10 reasons why your credit score probably isnt as high as it could be.

1. Two steps forward, one step back. It takes credit to build credit, right? In appl

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ObamaBot THX-1138 asks the question: He claims ‘tax cuts’ is supply side economics, when in fact tax cuts and spending increases have been THE DEFINITION of Keynesian anti-recession policy since at least Samuelson’s first text book in the 50′s.

Supply siders think that tax cut will induce supply response, which has never been shown to occur.

Limbaugh’s plan is nearly as ‘Keynesian’ as Obama’s, only he so grossly uniformed he does not know it.

Answer:

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