Bank officials said that effective this summer, customers who try to make purchases with their debit cards without enough money in their checking accounts will simply be declined. Debit purchases account for roughly 60 percent of overdrafts at Bank ...
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Lansing Mayor Virg Bernero today proposed having Michigan follow the lead of North Dakota and open a state-owned bank that could make low-interest loans to businesses and college students. The Democratic gubernatorial candidate said the state bank ...
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HARTFORD -- They call themselves "moderates," but a group of 15 conservative-leaning Democrats on Tuesday broke away from party leadership in an apparent insurgency over state borrowing and spending. The group, many of whom from Southwestern ...
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People view debt in different ways. Some avoid it like the plague and hold to a strict pay-as-you-go plan. Others run up charges on credit cards and take out loans and are always in debt. Most would agree that the less debt a person has, the better ...
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For the first time in my 30 years in this business, the dollar amount of card loans finished the year lower than they started," he said. "That would mean that consumers have either put their credit cards in a safe-deposit box and only get them out ...
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For several years, the Miller Park stadium district had relied on projections that the 0.1% sales tax could be retired in 2014. But in recent months, the effects of the economic recession have taken their toll: sales-tax receipts in the five counties ...
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Joerres' 2009 base salary was little changed at $980,769, down only slightly from $1 million in the previous year. His 2009 stock awards, however, fell 74% to $1,548,000 from $5,947,200; his option awards dropped 17% to $2,547,675 from $3,078,774 ...
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