| Talk of the bay: Auto dealers' ads can take you for a ride
This just in: Some auto-dealership ads may be misleading. The less-than-surprising warning issued Thursday by the Florida Attorney General's Office says car buyers should steer clear of dealer offers to pay off their existing car loan or lease. The loan or lease obligation does not disappear in such cases; instead, the buyer ends up owing the dealer, and because of penalties the loan balance often increases. A dealer may try to hide the extra debt burden by lengthening the repayment period. In an unrelated settlement reached in November, Bill Heard Chevrolet of Plant City and Orlando agreed to pay the state $400,000 and not run misleading radio or print ads. Ruling nets Spain shipwreck details The Spanish government will receive detailed information about a shipwreck site where Tampa's Odyssey Marine Exploration found $500-million worth of coins and artifacts last year, a federal judge ruled Thursday.
Super-charging your credit score
For Natasha Horne, trying to buy a house all came down to a three-digit number. A 33-year-old home health care worker who lives with her husband and two kids in a rental in the Parkchester section of the Bronx, Horne was hampered by a low credit score of 612. But with the help of Marilyn Bell, a counselor at Neighborhood Housing Services, which has offices in all five boroughs, Horne went to work. She called her creditors; some were willing to negotiate a settlement. The big push, starting last May, wiped $4,000 off her debt load. Bell contacted the credit reporting agencies about Horne's efforts. Within three months, her credit score rose to 679. Now, she's eligible for a mortgage at better rates than those offered to people with very poor credit.
July 2006
An American car company can move its factories to Mexico and claim it's a Free Market. An American toy company can outsource to a Chinese sub-contractor and claim it's a Free Market. An American branded shoe company can produce its shoes in India and claim it's a Free Market. An American bank can move its corproation to Bermuda to avoid U.S. twes and claim it's a Free Market. We can buy cheaper ink-jet printers made in Mexico and cheaper sports shorts made in Bandladesh, because it's a Free Market. In fact, we can purchase almost anything we want (and save money by doing so) from twenty different foreign countries because it's a Free Market... Free for some, but illegal for you and me But Heaven help the Elderly and Disabled who dare to buy their prescription drugs from a Canadian Pharmacy! That, our leaders say, is Un-American.
JPMorgan Institutional Trust Services Expands Latin American Presence ...
(CSRwire) JPMorgan Institutional Trust Services today announced the appointment of Marcela Pino as its Client Services Manager in the JPMorgan Chase Mexico City office. Ms. Pino's appointment expands Institutional Trust Services' global network, extending the division's Latin American presence and re-asserting its commitment to this market. Ms. Pino will have responsibility for Institutional Trust Services in its role as fiduciary, paying agent, and collateral agent. She will also be charged with developing or expanding relationships with both issuers of debt and intermediaries throughout the region. An economist trained in Brazil, Ms. Pino previously served as a controller and chief financial officer for JPMorgan Mexico, supervising accounting and risk management in Mexico, Peru, and Venezuela.
School, Lindsay Roberts deny all
Oral Roberts University and its president's wife, Lindsay Roberts, issued written statements Saturday saying that claims and accusations added to a lawsuit Friday are untrue.
A report attached to the lawsuit Friday contains allegations that Roberts, 51, spent a great deal of time with an underage male.
"I live my life in a morally upright manner and throughout my marriage have never, ever engaged in any sexual behavior with any man outside of my marriage as the accusations imply," Roberts said in her statement.
"Allegations against me in a lawsuit .
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TULSA, Okla. (AP) -- Two televangelists have resigned their posts as regents at Oral Roberts University, as the debt-ridden school tries to regroup following a spending scandal involving its former president. The university on Thursday also settled with one of three professors who filed a wrongful termination lawsuit against the school. Benny Hinn and I.V. Hilliard resigned as regents, where they were involved in making major school decisions, university spokesman Jeremy Burton said Thursday. Burton declined to say why the two resigned, but said both wrote the board to express their support for the school's mission. The resignations come a month after the resignations from the board of regents of two other televangelists, Jesse Duplantis and Creflo Dollar. Hinn and Dollar are among six televangelists being investigated by Iowa Sen.
War against fiscal rascality
A new era of fiscal responsibility and prudent husbandry of budgetary votes seems to be on the horizon. In President Yar'Adua's typical approach to governance, a battle that is bound to liberate the nation's budget allocations from predatory forces appears to have quietly taken off. Those who have been closely monitoring the progress of the 2008 Appropriation Bill at the National Assembly should not have any problem agreeing that a new fiscal dawn, together with its salutary impact on development, is in the offing. .
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