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    A Slice of Death: Dispatch from the Trenches of Suburbia

    JANUARY 31, 2012 10:05PM

    By greyman


    Topics: super bowl, politics, jobs, mortgage, credit, death, life, unemployment, economy

    • 13 Ratings
    • 625 Views
    • 18 Comments
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    The Alternatives: New Things, New Ways, New Ideas and Hope

    JANUARY 30, 2012 5:45PM

    By dunniteowl


    Topics: credit, agriculture, history, intelligence, efficiency, resources, prosperity, peace, civilization, freedom, jobs, manufacturing, doom, end of the world, survival, ingenuity, fertilizers, herbicides, pesticides, acid rain, watt, coal, shale oil, tar sands, hydraulic fracturing, fracking, fossil fuels, energy dependence, oil, power generation, biomimetics, nanotechnology, new technology, battery, power, wave, water, solar, wind

    • 0 Ratings
    • 119 Views
    • 0 Comments
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    Dollar Diagnosis

    JANUARY 13, 2012 4:52PM

    By Almost Bankrupt Babe


    Topics: finances, poor, struggling, single mom, credit, bankruptcy

    • 0 Ratings
    • 411 Views
    • 0 Comments
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    Layaway the Credit - in Response to Louis Hyman

    OCTOBER 13, 2011 8:13PM

    By Kathy Elrick


    Topics: layaway, kmart, walmart, corporate stores, banks, chain stores, store credit, health costs, health, health care, pre-existing condition, reagan era, credit cards, credit, credit problems, credit principle, credit interest, compound interest, monthly payments, monthly minimums, minimum credit payments, christmas gifts, christmas, school, school items, going back to school, chicago, chicago in the 80s, chicago area, chicagoland, bankruptcy, foreclosure, family home, family house, medical expenses, credit problems, too many credit cards, long-term debt, short-term debt, purchase, saving money to purchase

    • 0 Ratings
    • 88 Views
    • 0 Comments
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    Cash is the New Credit Card: Enter the Consumer Underground

    SEPTEMBER 21, 2011 1:36PM

    By ettringermedia


    Topics: prepaid, cash, underground, consumer, fico, score, low, report, bureau, overdraft, fees, card, debit, credit

    • 1 Ratings
    • 329 Views
    • 3 Comments
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    Bankruptcy and Cancer

    SEPTEMBER 18, 2011 8:13PM

    By Julie White


    Topics: bankruptcy, cancer, credit, dr. caligari, poe, wile e. coyote, health

    • 0 Ratings
    • 122 Views
    • 0 Comments
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    Credit Bureaus: Paving the Road for Corporate Governance

    SEPTEMBER 14, 2011 12:58PM

    By ettringermedia


    Topics: freedom, branding, aristocracy, system, caste, feudal, oppressive, government, economy, corporate, blacklisting, opportunity, future, doublespeak, orwell, bureau, score, credit, fico

    • 3 Ratings
    • 298 Views
    • 2 Comments
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    The Poverty Test

    AUGUST 31, 2011 10:26PM

    By songweasel


    Topics: economy, poverty, jobs, obama administration, tea party, immorality, morality, status anxiety, food stamps, public assistance, denial, credit, credit scores

    • 0 Ratings
    • 116 Views
    • 0 Comments
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    Who's Afraid of the Big Bad Bank?

    JUNE 5, 2011 1:52PM

    By LeeMcD


    Topics: federal reserve, banking, financial crisis, comedy, satire, humor, funny, credit, debt ceiling, economy, ron paul, mitt romney, sarah palin, bernanke, qe2, qe3, depression, recession, fractional reserve lending, state owned banks, leesa stanion, stanion studios, parody * central bank * world bank, world bank, imf, bis, political cartoon, documentary, state owned banks, end the fed, lady gaga does lbos, lbo, leveraged buyout * wheat futures, carbon trading, trading, wall street, wall s, goldman sachs, too big to fail, investment bank, private equity, economy, politics, geithner, boehner, collapse

    • 2 Ratings
    • 780 Views
    • 5 Comments
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    Cracked: '5 Things Nobody Tells You About Being Poor'

    JUNE 4, 2011 3:03PM

    By Progressive Liberal


    Topics: news, open+call, economy, business, cracked, humor, poor, money, poverty, banks, credit

    • 0 Ratings
    • 105 Views
    • 0 Comments
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    We’re Broke: Nary a peep

    MAY 17, 2011 9:04AM

    By Jim Buba


    Topics: borrow, government, credit, debt ceiling

    • 0 Ratings
    • 177 Views
    • 0 Comments
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    Short Story: "Bank Shot" (10th in a series)

    MARCH 30, 2011 11:06AM

    By P. Orin Zack


    Topics: fiction, short stories, 9/11, astroturfers, corporate incarceration, corporate personhood, corporate rights, credit, federal reserve, free speech, international bankers, mainstream media, mortgage, murder, parole officer, prison, protest, repugnican, subversive, terrorism suspect, union, world trade center, wtc

    • 0 Ratings
    • 134 Views
    • 0 Comments
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    To Debt Collectors, with Love

    FEBRUARY 2, 2011 11:42AM

    By Michael Klozotsky


    Topics: ftc, accounts receivable, fdcpa, economy, credit, insidearm, debt collection, music

    • 0 Ratings
    • 190 Views
    • 3 Comments
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    Identity theft...happy new year....

    JANUARY 11, 2011 9:15PM

    By Satori1


    Topics: equifax, transunion, experian, credit reporting, credit, fraud, identity theft

    • 0 Ratings
    • 96 Views
    • 0 Comments
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    best unsecured personal loan for open salon

    DECEMBER 27, 2010 5:24AM

    By sebastiantel16


    Topics: money, credit, loan, personal loan

    • 0 Ratings
    • 219 Views
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    Winners & Rankings: Best Places to Work in Collections 2010

    DECEMBER 9, 2010 12:30PM

    By Michael Klozotsky


    Topics: workplace, labor, credit, insidearm.com, best places to work, employees, employers, collection industry, debt collection, economy, business

    • Editor's Pick
    • 19 Ratings
    • 1791 Views
    • 38 Comments
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    Saving the Day So Someone Else Can Take Credit For It

    OCTOBER 22, 2010 1:12PM

    By Duane Gundrum


    Topics: disaster, danger, hotels, investigator, emergency, responses, business, economics, news, credit, responsibility

    • 0 Ratings
    • 452 Views
    • 0 Comments
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    Saturdays

    OCTOBER 16, 2010 3:17PM

    By Julie Franklin


    Topics: renting, credit, landlord, student, difficult, boston, apartment, rent

    • 0 Ratings
    • 291 Views
    • 0 Comments
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    Meet the insideARM Team (now with Robots & Dinosaurs)

    OCTOBER 4, 2010 2:47PM

    By Michael Klozotsky


    Topics: video, economy, insidearm.com, debt collection, consumer finance, expo, expo 10.6.10, free webinars, arm industry, credit, debt

    • 0 Ratings
    • 208 Views
    • 0 Comments
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    Makin' Debt Collection Movies with the FTC (INFOGRAPHIC)

    OCTOBER 4, 2010 2:14PM

    By Michael Klozotsky


    Topics: credit, infographic, ftc, federal trade commission, insidearm.com, consumer finance, debt collection, economy

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