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Debt Free Direct ad introduces a bit of creativity

Do you ever feel like a bird trapped in a cage when it comes to debt? Debt Free Direct has taken that sentiment and created an advertisement to help customers out with trying to break free from the “debt cage.”
The advertisement is quite simple in …

More bad news for GM

General Motor’s shares fell to a 70 year low today. Just a month ago, GM was trading at $3.50 a share, but this afternoon shares hit $1.50, which is a number not seen since March 31, 1938 (according to the Center for Research in Security …

Wall Street executive party comes to a close, executive pay to be capped

In an attempt to regulate those companies receiving bailout “TARP” funds, the Obama administration will announce a plan to cap executive pay to $500,000 a year for those companies that have received government assistance.
Obama had this to say on NBC’s Nightly News “If the taxpayers …

Wells Fargo and Citi both want Wachovia.

So Citigroup was going to buy Wachovia for around $2 billion with the help of the FDIC early last week. On Friday, Wells Fargo decided to agree to pay $14.8 billion (in an all stock deal WITHOUT government assistance) for the failing bank.
So CitiGroup …