Archive for March, 2008
More Americans Using Credit Cards to Stay Afloat
March 1st, 2008Via: USA Today: Seven years in the credit-counseling business didn’t prepare Ann Estes for the alarming trend she began noticing last fall: As her clients’ mortgage bills became unaffordable, a growing number of them began paying their credit card bills before — and sometimes instead of — their mortgages. “We’ve never seen anything like this,” […]
Bush Critical of Turkey’s Invasion of Iraq
March 1st, 2008One for your pot-kettle-black file folder. Via: Reuters: U.S. President George W. Bush urged NATO ally Turkey on Thursday to end its offensive against Kurdish PKK rebels in northern Iraq quickly, but Washington said it would not threaten to withdraw intelligence help. The United States fears prolonging the Turkish operation, which began on Feb. 21, […]
