12/31/2007 By: Ed Roberts NCUA followed-up its 2006 report on how credit unions serve their members with a series of meetings around the country to see how the federal regulator might respond to its findings. The NCUA Outreach Task...
December 27, 2007 BY: ERROL LOUIS We’ll never get out of the current mortgage crisis so long as Americans remain in denial about the depth and breadth of the problem and insist on chalking the whole mess up to...
December 18, 2007 By: Connie Prater For perhaps as many as 27 million American adults, keeping warm this winter will mean borrowing money and 20 million will use credit cards to be able to afford their heating bills, according...
December 16, 2007 By: LISA CHAMBERLAIN THE Phillips neighborhood, just south of downtown here, was riddled with vacant and run-down properties 15 years ago. It was an area where the drug trade was rampant. One by one, the drug...
Whatever the debate on the reach of the plan, some homeowners with mortgage payments set to jump from barely affordable to unaffordable will benefit–so long as they act quickly and apply before their scheduled rate hikes. We urge you...
December 10, 2007 BY KARA SPAK Theresa Adamovitz had one thing to do before putting up her Christmas tree this year: File for bankruptcy. On Dec. 4, the day before her home was to be auctioned off by the...
December 9, 2007 By: Sally Duros Some Chicagoans who took out exotic mortgages in 2005 at the peak of housing prices might want to step out of their mortgages now rather than wait through the five-year freeze on interest...
December 6, 2007 BY SALLY DUROS Some Chicagoans who took out exotic mortgages in 2005 at the peak of housing prices might want to step out of their mortgages now rather than wait through the five-year freeze on interest...
December 6, 2007 By William Neikirk and Mary Umberger Faced with a wave of costly home foreclosures, the Bush administration and financial institutions on Wednesday agreed to a five-year freeze on interest rates for certain Americans who face default...
12/5/2007 CHICAGO (WBBM) — The Payday Grinch, wearing a t-shirt proclaiming, “I love the payday loan reform act loophole,” joined Lt. Gov. Pat Quinn and members of the Msgr. John Egan Campaign for Payday Loan Reform outside a payday...