Casa Loma, an audacious 180,000-square-foot castle in Toronto built by a tycoon who died penniless, seemed the right place to talk about the burdens of big dreams. But that wasn’t Kevin O’Leary’s focus as he worked the marble floors of its glass-domed conservatory Thursday night. Decades earlier, O’Leary had hoped to hold his wedding reception…
Debt settlement on average saves consumers $2.64 for every $1 in fees paid, boasts a report released last month by the American Fair Credit Council, an industry association of companies operating in the debt settlement industry that have agreed to a strict code of conduct. The AFCC-commissioned report is based on a study of 400,000…
Pastor Stephen Hayes announced to his church on Easter Sunday that they helped cancel $10 million in debt for veterans and families in the DFW area. (Covenant Church) … Read the full article at: http://www.foxnews.com/us/2018/04/06/texas-church-helps-forgive-10-million-in-medical-debt-for-veterans-local-families.html
by Dinny McMahon When Zhang Jingqiang became mayor of Tieling in 2005, it was the poorest city in Liaoning Province. A greying, former Ming-dynasty garrison town of about 440,000 people in the country’s frigid north-east, it was part of China’s rust belt, but large-scale industrialisation had long ago bypassed the city. Zhang wasn’t a high-flyer.…
The rising cost of living and stagnant wages are creating unprecedented financial stress for workers. So what role should employers, and HR departments in particular, play to help staff manage their own money? During the past 12 months, 30 companies in Australia (including banks, utilities, unis, lawyers and investment firms) and non-profits have rolled out programs to…
A Tasmanian women who stole money while she was a Flight Centre travel agent to repay her son’s drug debt has escaped a jail sentence. Sally Anne Walters, 40, embezzled the money over 17 months between April 2014 and September 2015 when she was a team leader at Flight Centre’s Ulverstone branch. Chief Justice…
HELP is on the way for Barbadians who continue to run up high credit card and other debts. It is coming from the Barbados Chapter of Chartered Professional Accountants of Canada (CPA), which is this month introducing a financial literacy education programme for those who see justice in the exercise. Ms. Felicia Sue, head of…
NEW YORK, April 3, 2018 /PRNewswire/ — The Better Business Bureau (BBB) has officially recognized Guardian Debt Relief as an accredited debt relief provider. Coupled with an A+ rating, this achievement marks another step in Guardian’s quest to become the leading provider of debt relief services nationwide. In addition to the BBB, Guardian Debt Relief’s…
More Australian women are faced with rising student debt as the number of female enrolments continues to outpace that of men for yet another year. Student fees are set to rise by 7.5 per cent by the year 2021, and the repayment threshold is dropping from $55,000 to $42,000 a year, which means repaying student…
Few topics are less conducive to rational debate than the national debt. One of the most divisive questions is whether a country can get into trouble issuing debt in a currency it controls. Surely, a nation would face bigger problems if it borrows in foreign currencies or gold than if it only promises to repay…