iPad - Soon Sold by Verizon and AT&T Retail Locations

Apple has announced that they are planning to allow both Verizon and AT&T to sell the iPad out of their retail locations.

The iPad will be available for sale at all Verizon and AT&T locations starting at the end of October before Halloween.

Online Advertising Spending Round Up

Well the overall economy, the housing market, and consumer credit may be struggling but there is one side of the economy who missed the recession memo.

The online advertising and marketing industry is popping like never before. The entire industry seems to be doing well. All the usual suspects are turning big gains in revenue, profits, and of course possibility.

The Social Network - What Do You Know About Success?

Most people have a complete ignorance of what the cost and risk is of becoming extremely successful and extremely rich.

Do you want to know?

Are you sure?

MERS - Failure of Mortgage Security Registration

MERS - Mortgage Electronic Registry System

MERS which is an abbreviation for Mortgage Electronic Registration System has been the ultimate authority and primary database of mortgage security registration and is where the records for proof of ownership has been kept since 1997.

MERS was created to make it easier, and less costly to trade mortgage backed securities.

Private Sector Jobs Increasing... a Little

The private market added an additional 65,000 thousand or so jobs over the last month.

Consumer Credit Declines

Consumer credit is declining. The American consumer is able to buy less and less on credit with every passing month.

During the month of July consumer credit dropped by about 3 billion dollars. As of August the collective American consumer was able to buy 2.4 trillion dollars worth of merchandise via credit if we were to all max out every account we had.

The Recession is Officially Over... Unless You ask Warren

Warren Buffet (now worth about 45 billion dollars) has said that the recession is not over.

Not but a few days ago the powers that be said that the recession ended in June. Then the next day the Oracle of Omaha confidently stated that the recession is in fact not over.

America's Banks are Financially Baked - Crispy and Risky

Financially crispy, and unfortunately risky. That is the blunt truth regarding the US banking industry.

The unfortunate and scary reality of the matter is that out of the nearly 8,000 banks that are FDIC insured almost 830 of them are on the "oh crap" list that is kept by the FDIC.

That is a little more then 1 out of every 10 banks, or more specifically 11%.

Fox Hole Girls Protest For God - Jesus Loves Strippers Too!

Fox Hole Strippers Protest Harassment of Warsaw Ohio Church Members

I can just picture that first Sunday in early August 2010.

Fox Hole Strip Club - Strippers Protest Church Members

"Mommy, Mommy look... How come those girls get to wear their bathing suit?"

Please allow me to introduce Angel and Candy Cane. Fox hole strippers protesting the members of a Warsaw church in the state of Ohio.

US Economic Growth... Well Kinda

The United States economy is at a fork in the road. Which way and where it will go? Nobody really knows, even if they don't tell you so.

How to Hedge a Failing US Economy

The finance blogs and finance bloggers of the world have been speaking of a dooms day looming in the not so distant future of the American economy. The really scary part is that they all have strong arguments.


There is a large supply of worry, and perhaps even a larger supply of reasons to be worried about.


In researching the current state of the American economy I had a few moments to think about what would be a good investment.


I asked myself; where should one put their hard earned money?




The Answer will shock you...

HAMP Modifications Are Drying Up - Uh Oh?

I was reading over an article I saw on a proclaimed debt help resource for homeowners.

The article was on the stats and numbers pertaining to the HAMP modification performance to date.

I expected to see good numbers as I have been hearing good things amidst the never ending slue of finance blog posts that I read on the housing market.

Stabilizing The Housing Market – How America Did It

The mortgage loan and housing crisis created tremendous economic anxiety and directed the American economy towards a black hole of financial hardship.

Though the US economy is not out of the recession or perhaps depression, things have appeared to settle down a bit.

It looks as if the housing market may be stabilizing. This sis a article exploring the steps and actions that were taken to stabilize the US housing market.

Refinancing Consumer Craze - Low Mortgage Interest Rates

Low Mortgage Rates – Low Mortgage Origination –

Sky Rocketing Mortgage Refinance Origination Loans

Low Mortgage Rates Create High Demand for Mortgage Refinancing

Mortgage rates are low as they can be. I honestly do not know if we are ever going to see rates this low ever again. Though I should say that statements like that somehow always seem to turn out wrong.

Sex Sells - Republicans Reverting to What Works - Watch Out Palin - Nikki Haley is Turning Heads

 Republicans Sporting Old Fashioned Sex Appeal

Republicans and the rest of the political world are still not quite sure what they uncovered when they brought Sarah Palin to the presidential race. I say the republican party is really on to something here.

Financial Reform Pushed Through By Democratic Majority and Three Republicans

A New Financial Industry Reform Bill Has Passed

Well 2,100 pages of potential American Policy and Law fixing to keep a tighter watch on the financial industries practices of marketing products to the American Consumer is on its way to Presidents Obama's Desk. Obama is expected to sign.