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• Credit card reform: New fees, higher rates

  And now, credit card news as bright as today's South Florida weather, for day one of life under credit card reform. BillShrink.com this morning reports that credit card rates on average have risen 16 percent since the credit card reform law passed last May. And that includes a big handful of [...]
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• Florida foreclosures soar

  The news is not that Florida leads the nation in foreclosures, even though it does. The story now is by how much. And how bad it's gotten. Here goes: The number of home loans in foreclosure in Florida at the end of last year was 44 percent higher than at the' [...]
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• More foreclosure help

  These things are multiplying…. Chase announces today a Homeownership Assistance Event in Fort Lauderdale, Thursday Feb. 25 through Monday March 1, 8 a.m. through 8 p.m., for struggling homeowners to meet and discuss their options with loan advisors. Chase spokeswoman Nancy Norris says the bank has notified more than 16,500 South [...]
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• Annual fees on credit cards are back!

  And now, credit card news as bright as today's South Florida weather, for day one of life under credit card reform. BillShrink.com this morning reports that credit card rates on average have risen 16 percent since the credit card reform law passed last May. And that includes a big handful of' [...]
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• Loan Modifications: Latest numbers

  Some interesting numbers from the Treasury Wednesday about loan modifications. Of the 5.6 million mortgages in this country that are currently 60 days delinquent – and this number just keeps going up. It was 3 million not long ago – not all of them would be eligible for a loan modification [...]
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• Foreclosure help in Palm Beach this week

  Bulletin Board time: -Chase is opening a new Homeownership Center at 555 N. Congress Ave., Suite 206, Boynton Beach,. Alone among major banks in South Florida – which next to Nevada is at the epicenter of the foreclosure crisis – Chase has set up these offices so that struggling [...]
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• Tax Q&A: Will the Roth IRA Income Limit Change Again Next Year?

  Last year, you had to have adjusted gross income of less than $100,000 to be able to convert an Individual Retirement Account to a Roth IRA. That limit went away in 2010. My question: Does this $100,000 limit become effective again in 2011? Bob, Fort Lauderdale No, said [...]
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• Looking for....some good reviews

  Here’s my offer: I have some interesting books on personal finance, investing, the economy and spending. But I don’t have time to read them all. So who wants to become a Business Book Reviewer? If you’re in South Florida and you’d like to write a short review that I’d publish [...]
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• Your money and love: The best tool, good questions

  In case you missed it, my column from Sunday on Love and Money is here. And the quiz is in the next blog item.

  
  

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• Love & money quiz

  Stuart Ritter, who is a certified financial planner and an assistant vice president at T. Rowe Price,/> came up with this quiz to help couples set their own priorities with money. Both partners should answer the questions separately and then trade answers with each other. Together, see [...]
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