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The Credit Karma Blog is honored to be hosting this weeks Festival of Frugality. There were lots of posts to pick from. We selected our three favorites out of the bunch, along with 15 other great blog posts. Thanks to all who submitted!
Aloysa presents My Mother Was a Mail-Order Bride posted at My Broken Coin. Though not exactly about frugality, this first in a three-part series will have you enthralled.
If you’re uninsured and have medical debt, chances are about one in three that you are using a credit card or small loan to pay it off.
Even if you have insurance, these odds are high, according to a March 2012 report by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Among those with private insurance, 27 percent said they were paying off medical debt over time (with a credit card, loan or other payment program). For those with public insurance, such as Medicaid and the Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP), the number was 28 percent.
There’s no doubt that unexpected medical expenses can upend your finances. But i
Mortgage rates retreated this week, with 30-year loans falling back below the 4 percent mark after briefly surging above it for the first time in months.
The broad-based decline, which occurred in all major loan types, at least temporarily eased fears that mortgage rates were beginning a long-anticipated climb back toward more historic norms. The recent release of several downbeat reports on the housing market accompanied the decline. Average interest rates on standard 30-year fixed-rate mortgages fell back to 3.99 percent, down from 4.08 percent last week, according to the weekly Freddie Mac rate survey. Prior to last week’s sharp gain, 30-year rates had not exceeded 4 percent since late October. Read the full post
The Credit Card Accountability, Responsibility, and Disclosure (CARD) Act of 2009 represents what is arguably the biggest attempt in history to overhaul credit card industry regulations.
President Obama signed the Credit Card Act in May of 2009. At that time some of the rules went into immediate effect, others kicked in three months later, and all of them were in full force by February of 2010. These include things like how your monthly statement is formatted and the way your card company makes decisions regarding your interest rate.
Savings Accounts and Money Market Rates provided by 1 December 2011 U.S. stocks climbed higher following Standard & Poor’s largest gain in a month as consumer confidence surpassed analysts’ expectations, increasing by the most since 2003, Bloomberg reports.
Exxon Mobil Corp. climbed 1.4 percent on an oil rally while Yahoo! spiked 2.3 percent after Thomas H. Lee Partners showed interest in a bid. Hewlett-Packard Co. also grew 1.4 percent after RBC Capital Markets increased its rating for the company’s shares.
On Tuesday, November 29, the S&P 500 rose 0.2 percent to 1,195.19, a 3.2 percent rally in two days. The Dow Jones Industrial Average also saw growth, adding 32.62 points, or 0.3 percent, according to the news source. Read the full post
Fitch, the global credit ratings agency has downgraded Macquarie Group’s banking arm from A to A-, citing the lenders reliance on wholesale funding markets, and the market orientated nature of its businesses.
Investors however seemed largely unconcerned by the news, with Macquarie shares rising for the fourth consecutive day. T