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Top Sources of Help with Credit Card Debt

Sunday, April 19th, 2009

A very heavy and burdensome financial obligation is credit card debt relief. When this is not responsibly attended to, a credit card debtor will have to deal with the constant bugging of the credit card company. In some cases, they leave the job to an outside collections agency to threaten you to pay your debt which sometimes turns out to be really bothersome. Also, leaving behind this obligation will affect your credit score. It can be a reason for you not to take advantage of other financial services in the future since you have been blocked for such reputation. In order to deal with this, there are top sources of help with your credit card debt you can approach.

One is a consolidate bills. These debt solutions specialists assist you in your decision-making and guide you to an easier and less stressful way to manage your debt. They are the mediator or negotiators between you and your credit card company. You should provide them with your financial earnings and expenses so they can figure out what plan matches your capability to pay. Another top source of help are the lawyers. They function like the debt counselors, only that they can offer professional help especially on legal matters.

Lastly, you can seek the aid of a finance company or another credit card company. Some don’t opt to stop using their credit cards and they are able to pay religiously. So, you can do a balance transfer of your outstanding balances with another credit card company to merge it all to a single debt. If not, you can get a loan from a lending company to settle the consolidate credit debt in one full payment.

Notes on US SubPrime Crisis

Wednesday, September 24th, 2008
  1. The term “subprime” refers to the credit status of the borrower (being less than ideal), not the interest rate on the loan itself.
  2. Technically, the people whose credit score is below 620 is known as Subprime.
  3. The US Sub-prime Crisis can also be referred as Credit-derivatives led crises.
  4. The US Sub Prime crisis involves lending loans to the borrower who has poor credit worthiness. As the creditability of the borrower is not sound, therefore the risk involves in the deal is very high and thus the Interest rates charged by the lender would also be high.
  5. The loans were made to the borrower based on the “Stated Income” and in fact without verification of any proof for the same.
    Many people Call it as a LIAR Loan… or loan made to a borrower of NINA (No Income No Asset) Category and NINJA (No Income No Job also) Category.
  6. Around $ 400- $ 500 Billion were made up of these sub-prime loans.
  7. These Sub prime borrowers take these loans and buy a house and sell it to make some money. But, when the House prices crashed and interest rates rose, then these borrowers started defaulting as they were unable to refinance and had no option but to default on their loans.
  8. As the borrowers started defaulting, the bad debts of the Banks started cropping up. The Bad debts of HSBC Bank rose to $6.8 Billion. New Century Financial, America’s 2nd biggest sub-prime lender carries 23 Billion USD in debt and had adversely affected the liquidity of the banks. Due to this liquidity crisis, Century Financial became bankrupt.

How Does Interest Rate Affect Inflation ?

Wednesday, July 23rd, 2008

How does interest rate affect inflation? Is it directly related or inversely related..
normally, increased interest rate wud mean than an individual wud earn more interest from his deposits/lendings…thereby circulatin more money and increasing inflation.
From another point of view..increased interest rate wud also mean that an individual would have to pay more interest on the money he borrows..thereby there will be less borrowing and less money circulation and thereby reducin inflation…

Which affect is more dominant ?

It is depend on bank policy for interest rate,
if rate is high, people will save more and these saving will be convert in investment. so the amount of rate will be less than the deposits and these deposits act as investment for borrower. higher investments leads to higher prices which is high inflation.
In reverse case, the rate will low , will also increase the expenditure/investment as the amount with people will higher, will lead the higher prices.
Actually when banks reduces lending schemes fr loan or say cease the bank loan facilities , increases the processing charges for loan on one side and on another side when bank increase rate for deposits and saving . In both cases the the amount increase with bank and reduces from public, so inflation rate reduces and in reverse case increases.

If rate of interest is high then people will save more in banks for getting high returns and further the money deposited by the depositors will be distributed by the bank in the form of loan for investment purposes this will lead to higher profit by both depositor and investors so they will demand more in economy then it will leads to high rate of inflation and if interest rate is less then it is vice-versa.

If rate of interest is high then people will demand less loans from banks this will lead to less investment in economy means less profit so inflation will be automatically corrected.