Moneywise, Japan favors paper over plastic
At a forest shrine lined with incense-burning urns, Japanese pilgrims enter a small cave where they stoop to wash coins and bills in trickling spring water.
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On Vacation, Check Out a Rental 'Home Away From Home' With even modest hotels charging from $200 to $300 a room all over the world (and sometimes more), the smart traveler is frequently turning to the rental of lower-cost vacation
Desperate plaintiff warns of loans carrying 200 percent interest (Reg Req'd) Every time Danae Young comes to visit her parents at the cemetery, the tears flow and the memories wash across her -- memories of the worst day of her life.via
The Two Types of Mortgage Fraud, Plus a Primer on Tax Sales In our world, mortgage fraud is mortgage fraud. But for fraud investigators, mortgage fraud is divided into two categories: fraud for housing and fraud for profit. read more...
Huge Mortgage Lender Files for Bankruptcy (Washington Post) New Century Financial, a lender that came to symbolize the fast-and-loose mortgage practices of recent years, filed for bankruptcy protection yesterday and said it would lay off 3,200 employees, more
First Baptist Church to celebrate 150 years Mid Mead remembers carrying her daughter's baby buggy up the steps of the original building for the First Baptist Church in Charles City.read more...
Nationwide announces mortgage rate rise (Guardian Unlimited) Customers of the UK's biggest building society were hit with higher mortgage costs today as it announced it would be passing on yesterday's interest rate rise.read more...