Economy, Business, Credit, and Debt at The Roundup #1

Welcome to the first edition of this roundup. Hope you enjoy the posts as much as we enjoyed putting this together!

Economy:

Jayson Gibson presents Hope for Homeowners Act of 2008 ?What's At Stake? posted at New Homes Section Blog. Details about problems in our current economy and how each problem relates to the Hope for Homeowners Act of 2008.

Ella Moss presents FIXING AMERICAN ECONOMY « Zodiac Times posted at Zodiac Times, a comprehensive list of proposals.

ANTHONY PHIRI presents AS Blog:Mavericks,Intellectuals & Lifestyles posted at Mavericks,Intellectuals and Lifestyles:Decoding the News into Facts - these are times when you need to be clever if you need a nice life. It's hard times. But you also need to know what it all means - the reality behind your system.

Business:

AndrewB presents Home Business Opportunities - Truth About Home Based Business Opportunities posted at Personal Plug. Research is important when looking for home based business opportunities but it takes a little more than just research to determine whether the opportunity is the right one for you.

Qovax presents The Perils of One-time Charges posted at Value Investing and Entrepreneurship by Qovax, a Software Startup. When it comes to pleasing Wall Street, some companies would do anything to spruce up their books. One of the most common shenanigans management would use is one-time charges. One-time charges are expenses that do not recur. Because of this, one-time charges are usually reported separately to prevent any disfigurement of an otherwise pristine net income.

Great Management presents An Easy Way To Get A Job Payrise posted at The GreatManagement Blog. The Learning and Skills Council survey has shown that employees can increase their salary by $4,000 to $6,000 per year by getting the right training.

Britannica Blog presents The Need for Greater Flexibility in the Workplace posted at Britannica Blog - Reports on the falling economy and heaving financial industry are monopolizing news lately. At the same time, today’s managers are faced with continuously changing and conflicting demands: consumers want their products customized in record turn-around time while employees are faced with the impeding stress of long work hours and the resulting burnout.

Henri Schauffler1 presents The Best Home Based Business - The Keys To Finding It! | Entrepreneur Freedom posted at Henri Schauffler.

Tushar Mathur presents Ways To Leave Your Business posted at Small Business Resource - Selecting your successor is a fundamental objective that is decided early in the Exit Planning process. Almost all owners want to transfer the business to other family members, an employee or a co-owner; only about 5 percent want to sell to an outside third party. Interestingly, however, most persons first identified as successors do not usually end up as the ultimate owners.

Gunvi presents 5 Hot Tips For A Big Selling Squeeze Page posted at Big Selling Website Design.

Shaun Connell presents Get an Online Savings Account posted at Financial Planning. Free tutorial! Learn how to turn your money into more money with an online savings account. Don't worry, this is risk-free, government backed and guaranteed to earn at least 2.75% per year.

Will Edwards presents The 4 Ps of Service Strategy posted at ITIL V3 Talk. The 4 Ps of Service Strategy (after Mintzberg) are as follows: Perspective, Plan, Position and Patterns - at least according to ITIL v3. A Strategy can be any of these things or, indeed, any mixture of them.

Brian Terry presents 3 Ways To Make Money With Product Creation posted at Big Marketing Secrets Blog. The popularity of online shopping has brought so many opportunities for entrepreneurs. Today, they don’t even need to build a brick and mortar business as they can serve their customers better through online transactions.

Kathleen Gage presents Street Smarts Marketing & Promotions: Internet Marketing - Who can you trust? posted at Street Smarts Marketing & Promotions. It seems one of the greatest challenges for those new to the world of Internet Marketing is to know who to trust when it comes to who they are, what they know and have they truly accomplished that which they claim to be an expert at? Here are a few recommendations on how you can minimize getting sucked into the next “get rich quick” scheme and find those who are “the real deal”.

Edwin Casimero presents The Financial Crisis of 2008 posted at Business News Made Simple.

Credit and Debt:

imarketing4s presents Learning About the Fair Debt Collection Practices Act | Consolidate4Free: Debt Consolidation Information posted at Free Debt Consolidation: Qualified Financial Management, an elaboration of the provisions included in the Fair Debt Collection Practices Act (FDCPA).

MoneyNing presents Credit Card Spending Limit, Credit Scores and Conventional Mortgages posted at Personal Finance Blog by Money Ning - A credit card representative told me that my credit card limit alone will affect my credit score. Do you believe her?

LAL presents borrowing money? posted at LivingAlmostLarge. I ask the question can you borrow money from family?

Kevin presents The Mortgage Crisis and Investments in Real Estate | Rich Credit Debt Loan posted at Rich Credit Debt Loan. An analysis of the current state of the real-estate market.

All Others:

Bill presents Social Security Sense posted at Learn The Stock Market And How to Trade - basic ideas on playing the social security game.

Investing School presents Try Buying When You Want to Sell and Vice Versa posted at Investing School - Time for something radical since nothing else is working anyway!! :) – be warned that this funny post comes with a disclaimer that states the content is not serious advice…

Erika Collin presents Armchair Quarterbacks: Top 100 NFL Blogs posted at Sports Management Colleges.

Scott Mahler presents Why You Need to Upgrade Your Website posted at Datex Media.

Brooke presents Groundhog Day Goals - November! posted at Dollar Frugal - an update of Brooke’s goals.