Disposable Income - Topic profile

http://uk.reuters.com/article/personalFinanceNews/ idUKARO649... The average household is more than 2,500 pounds worse off this year than in 2007 - the first such fall for a decade, new research claims today. uSwitch.com calculates that the average UK household must now find an extra 145 pounds a month to cover the rising cost of essentials such as mortgage repayments, council tax ...

I am considering filing a chapter 13 (would be me only not my husband). I have about 40K in credit card debt and a subrpime loan (my home cost 282K). I've just fallen behind for the first time on my MTG loan (been paying for almost 3 years now). My housing costs with HOAs and escrow total 3K a month and while my husband and I have good salaries, we struggle to make this payment every month. We ...

I can't spend a lot on registration or anything, but need some money please help! thank you!

I’m looking for advice on where to put disposable income Here's a little background info: We have no mortgage or credit card debt No vehicle payments Both our Roth IRAs are funded DH’s employer funds the full amount of his retirement, I & my employer pay into TIAA-CREF We have a savings account with over a year’s living expenses at 2.96%...we're going to pare this down to 6 months’ ...

Ok, prices ARE skyrocketing Ammo Fuel it seems everything is increasing BUT here in SE Texas it appears the clubs are really competing for our $$$$. 08 has been a banner year for Sporting Clays shooters in Texas. The clubs are finding ways to give us more for our money, the targets that are being set are AWESOME The overall product just seems to be better. I have ...

Perhaps the narrative should be that getting more disposable income into the hands of the middle and lower income classes is good for the economy and net positive for the rich who produce all the junk we buy??? What the rich lose in paying higher taxes is offset by increased volume spending from the rest of us? This, btw, is the essence of redistribution of wealth. Dems just don't ...

Ah, college students. Move-in week always brings interesting stories of illogical people with ridiculous amounts of disposable income from their parents. This week has brought some crazy stories, some I felt I had to share. Take, for example, the three college guys that decided it would be awesome to have a 52" plasma in their dorm room. These guys pooled their startup money together and ...

So sayeth OpenSecrets.org : During World War II, soldiers crouching in foxholes penned letters assuring their sweethearts that they'd be home soon. Now, between firefights in the Iraqi desert, some infantrymen have been sending a different kind of mail stateside: two or three hundred dollars -- or whatever they can spare -- towards a presidential election that could very ...

THE TELEGRAPH FINAL PIECES IN JIGSAW OF DOOM DROP INTO PLACE By Jeff Randall http://www.telegraph.co.uk/money/main.jhtml?xml=/m oney/2008/... … Until this year, the missing pieces in the doomsayer's jigsaw were falling house prices and rising unemployment. No matter that consumers on modest incomes were piling up credit-card obligations, taking out mortgages on five, even six, times ...

Hi all Husband and I had our telephone interviews yesterday. Went though the figures and we had just over £600 disposable income (just given house up and moved into rental). He said they would want 70% as being over the £600 band the sliding scale puts us into this band. Does this mean that if the disposable income is below £600 they will only want 50%? Can you dispute the income ...

The Great Consumer Crash of 2009     by James Quinn     August 19, 2008 James Quinn is senior director of strategic planning, the Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania. It is easy to ignore the storm if you look at the opposite horizon. When the storm reaches your location there can be no more ignorance. I hate to tell you, but the storm has reached your ...

  Recs: 0 from the RIO board- like i said, I'm looking ahead 1-2 yrs and staying with fundamentals Recs: 0 Four Brazilian Firms Poised to Profit from Two Powerful Spending Trends Tuesday, August 19th, 2008 Four Brazilian Firms Poised to Profit from Two Powerful Spending Trends By Jennifer Yousfi Managing Editor Brazil is no longer just a tourist hot spot, but a ...