Posted on : 05-02-2010 | By : admin | In : Financial News
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Mark Birkett has listed for sale a two-bedroom, 2.5-bath condo at 3057 N. Clifton Ave. in Lake View for $499,000.
Unit# 1 is part of the Clifton-Barry Condos. Tommy Hicks of Kale Realty is the listing agent.
Birkett is the vice president at GE Antares Capital in Chicago. He worked for Raytheon as a financial analyst.
He earned his bachelor’s in business administration from Villanova University in 1996 and his M.B.A. from the University of Michigan Stephen M. Ross School of Business.
According to BlockShopper.com, there have been 919 condo sales in Lake View during the past 12 months, with a median sales price of $299,000.
Posted on : 04-02-2010 | By : admin | In : Financial News
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MOST people only think about flooding coming from outside the home, but water can cause all sorts of damage from some unexpected, everyday sources.
These could include sinks, freezers, washing machines and drains, which can all cause problems if not attended to regularly.
Once a month, run boiling water down each of your bathroom drains to help keep them flowing. A simple hair filter can also stop your drains from clogging and overflowing.
Pay particular attention to your washing machine – because it’s under constant pressure it’s more likely to spring a leak. Shut it off at the taps when you’re away from home.
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Posted on : 03-02-2010 | By : admin | In : Financial News
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Personal finance experts have warned consumers for months that new credit card reforms will not give them a one-size-fits-all solution to their financial woes. In fact, for those struggling with debt, the best idea may be to try to use cards as rarely as possible to avoid paying too much in interest and other charges.
Consumers can gain more insight into the credit card industry from a recent op-ed piece published in the Washington Post by author Robert D. Manning, who explores some of the myths that have built up around it in past years.
For example, Manning notes that credit card debt as most people know it only began to emerge in the early 1980s as banks aggressively pushed for an end to federal and state usury laws. Read more…
Posted on : 01-02-2010 | By : admin | In : Financial News
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A study on the situation of Caribbean youth has revealed that youth’s risky behaviors are wreaking serious havoc on the economies of the Caribbean.
This is according to a study conducted by the CARICOM Commission on Youth Development (CCYD) in keeping with its mandate from Caricom heads of government to analyze the situation of Caribbean youth and recommend policy intervention to improve their well being.
The study conducted by former World Bank Economist, Jad Channban, found that murder rates in the Caribbean – at 30 per 100,000 annually – were higher than any other region in the world and that youth were the primary perpetrators, as well as the victims, of crime and violence.
The report revealed that the economic costs of youth crime had two components: the first being direct financial costs related to public expenditure on security, policing, arrest, judicial processing, and incarceration.
The second component was indirect costs linked to the foreign earnings of the criminal while s/he was in prison and to the losses in tourism revenues linked to youth crimes. L
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Posted on : 01-02-2010 | By : admin | In : Financial News
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If you’re in that twenty to thirty-something age range, odds are that you have friends and family who are getting married. If you are close with any of them, there’s a good chance you will be asked to be in the wedding party at some point.
This post was put together with the help of the wife, an expert in this topic area. She has been in six wedding parties, three of which as the Maid of Honor (I’m lucky I scored a likable wife!).
Would you like to be my Bridesmaid/Groomsman?
It’s really tough to say “no” to that question, but if you’ve never been through it before, it’s important to know what saying “yes” means, especially if you’re in a tough spot financially. I’m sure a lot of us
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