Personal Finance and Investing

The most common form of bankruptcy is Chapter 7. Bankruptcy debt discharge is essentially when the court officially releases a debtor of being held personally liable to repay debts incurred prior to filing bankruptcy. This occurs within a certain time frame following bankruptcy proceedings.  Not all debts will be discharged so it is wise to know in advance which types of debts you the debtor are still held personally and legally accountable for. Whether or not your bankruptcy debts are discharged also depends on if you’ve been through bankruptcy previously.  < Read more…

Today, I’m departing from my usual fare by presenting a snarky and controversial guest post by Mr. Moneybags, a personal finance blogger I’ve recently come across. I’d characterize his writing style as risque, highly edgy and different (I had to tone down his post somewhat, in order to run it here). For a much tamer look at the gender debate in finance, check out our posts: Managing Money: Men vs Women and Traditional Jobs For Men and Women. I now offer the floor to Mr. Moneybags.

Is there equality for women in the workforce? Sure, you can talk about equality all you want and acknowledge the plight of women and what they have gone through in the last century to achieve socio-economic parity, but the corporate world still seems to disagree.

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A High Court hearing has declared the planned BA strike action illegal, so can travellers now relax? The High Court decision that the British Airways (BA) cabin crew strike planned by Unite can’t go ahead will be great news for the travelling public. Read more…

So this woman faces up to 20 years in prison:

Former B of A employee pleads guilty to providing false VOD’s

Wednesday, December 9, 2009 at 9:04PM

A former Bank of America employee was convicted of wire fraud today in federal court for creating false documents to secure approval of mortgage loan applications.

United States Attorney Carmen M. Ortiz; Warren T. Bamford, Special Agent in Charge of the Federal Bureau of Investigation – Boston Field Division; and Susan Dukes, Special Agent in Charge of the Internal Revenue Service, Criminal Investigation – Boston Field Office, announced today that CLARISTA BRAMBLE, age 59, of Randolph, MA, pled guilty before Senior U.S. D

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