Do you understand how credit counseling is different from other debt relief options? Mike Sullivan, Director of Education at Take Charge America, discusses the topic of credit counseling. Topics include how it works, what you should look for in a credit counseling company, and how to get started. There are many debt relief options, debt management works for some consumers, not all consumers. Find out if it will work for you.
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http://www.payasyousettle.com/debt-options/ My hero, Dave Ramsey, tells of abusive practices and the violation of Federal law incorporated by debt collectors – particularly credit card debt collectors. Most people do not know that they have rights guaranteed to them by the Fair Debt Collection Practices Act (FDCPA) and debt collectors knowingly and habitually break these laws in order to frighten them into paying.IT IS NOT AGAINST THE LAW TO OWE MONEY!Do not allow yourself to be lied to (example: “You’re going to go to jail if you don’t pay this” is one of their favorites!) or treated without the dignity you deserve.KNOW YOUR RIGHTS UNDER THE FDCPA:Collectors can NOT call you before 8 am or after 9 pmCollectors can NOT threaten to have you arrested or charged with a crime if you dont payCollectors can NOT continue to call after you have indicated you want them to stop (record your conversation with them, tell them you ARE recording it, write the date and time down in a journal, and follow up with a certified letter stating they may no longer call.)Collectors can NOT call friends, family members or colleagues repeatedly in order to get you to pay (they may call your acquaintances ONCE in order to track you down and may NOT mention that you owe money or give ANY information that would lead someone to believe that they are attempting to collect a debt.)For more information on your rights under the FDCPA, please visit my website at www.myarrp.com (click on the “Help With Credit” link at the top.)To the scum debt collectors reading this: We’re mad as and we’re not going to take this any more! We the People are being educated as to your tactics, garnering strength and numbers, and proposing legislation. We’ll be in touch with you…
The crisis in banking, housing, debt and unemployment is a single massive and recurring problem that deserves the examination of systemic solutions including monetary reform.
After providing an extremely clear and compelling presentation on monetary reform at the 2009 American Monetary Institute Conference, Ben Dyson is interviewed by Local Future founder Aaron Wissner to discuss the causes of the crisis, how banks create money, and how to prevent a recurrence of this crisis in the future, and perhaps to also bring a quicker recovery now.
The current monetary system is structured such that most money is created when loans are created.
Under the current “fractional reserve” banking system, when a loan is made, 90% or more of the money of bank depositors can be loaned to the borrowers, but at the same time, the depositors consider 100% of that money available, and everyone treats deposit money as if were the same as cash.
The money that is loaned out then is paid to someone, and that money is typically again deposited back into the bank, and again around 90% of this deposit money is lent out by the bank. This process continues until the total amount of checking account “money” increases by 3, 5, 10 or even more times.
Banks have very little cash even though they have very large amounts of deposits. The deposits are backed almost entirely by the loans that the banks have made, and most of these are mortgages. In the event that the loans go bad, the deposits do not have adequate backing, and the bank becomes insolvent, leading to a monetary crisis.
A monetary crisis leads to a housing crisis or mortgage crisis, a credit crisis or financial crisis, an unemployment crisis and revenue crisis for government entities, a banking crisis and insolvency crisis for banks, and an overall debt crisis and money crisis for everyone.
Monetary reform attempts to add resilience to the monetary system by making improvements to the accounting rules that banks must follow, improvements to the monetary policy mechanism, and improved ways to issue money into circulation.
More at http://therealnews.com/c.php?c=080501YT
Leo Panitch part 1: Truly democratic institutions are needed to direct investment
Sunday May 4th, 2008
As the US Federal Reserve once again cut interest rates on Wednesday in the hopes of stanching the economic bleeding in the US, The Real News Network senior editor Paul Jay sat down with economist Leo Panitch to discuss the causes of–and solutions to–the current economic crisis. Panitch says that the increase in the standard of living since the Reagan era has largely been fueled by growing debt and longer working hours, and suggests that the solution is to democratize economic institutions.