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'Zombie Mortgages' Are Rising From the Dead—Here's How To Fight Back
05 Jul 2024 16:06 GMT
Getty ImagesZombie mortgages sound like something out of a horror movie—and for people who are just now discovering that they have one, they are.
Across America, thousands of stunned homeowners have learned that their homes are under foreclosure due to an …
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Challenging the debt buyers: A Virginian wins her case — without a lawyer
01 Mar 2024 12:07 GMT
When Mazie Green got the notice that a Norfolk-based firm that buys debt from lenders had filed a claim in Alleghany County General District Court that she owed it $8,914.31 she did what many a Virginia mountaineer would do.
In fact, she kept saying that, …
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CFPB Bites of the Month - 2023 Annual Review - Debt Collection
22 Feb 2024 18:39 GMT
In this article, we share a timeline of our monthly "bites" for 2023 applicable to debt collection. If debt collection in 2023 had a theme it would be medical debt. Medical debt woes transcend political parties and affect nearly all demographic …
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Credit Union receives nearly $1 million to help advance mission
05 Oct 2017 19:51 GMT
Appalachian Community Federal Credit Union will receive nearly $1 million from the U.S. Treasury’s “CDFI Fund” to help the credit union carry out its work with underserved consumers.
“This award signals that ACFCU has reached a new, national level of …
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searches for internet porn
01 Jun 2017 16:01 GMT
Photo: Frazer Harrison, Staff
Kit Harington had a man bun and a scowl worthy of Jon Snow.
Kit Harington had a man bun and a scowl worthy of Jon Snow.
Photo: Frazer Harrison, Staff
A former Google data scientist used an odd metric to predict the …
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A former Google data scientist used an odd metric to predict...
01 Jun 2017 15:51 GMT
Photo: Frazer Harrison, Staff
Kit Harington had a man bun and a scowl worthy of Jon Snow.
Kit Harington had a man bun and a scowl worthy of Jon Snow.
Photo: Frazer Harrison, Staff
A former Google data scientist used an odd metric to predict the …
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A former Google data scientist used an odd metric to predict the unemployment rate weeks before official stats: searches for internet porn
01 Jun 2017 14:27 GMT
It's
data reimagined.
Phil
and Pam Gradwell (to be)/Flickr
It takes the Bureau of Labor Statistics three weeks to collate
its survey data on unemployment and release that information
to the public.
Three weeks might seem like a long time — but hey, …