Headline News Archive

2017

June

23

• Does God want you to spend $300,000 on college?. Anyone contemplating the full cost of attendance at what is arguably the nation’s most prominent Catholic undergraduate institution probably wonders just how big those checks…

• Poverty really is the result of a state of mind — among rich people. Recently, Housing and Urban Development Secretary Ben Carson said that poverty is a state of mind, and having the right mind-set will let people escape…

22

• Consumer agency condemns abuses in loan forgiveness program. The government’s consumer watchdog is adding its voice to a growing chorus of warnings about problems with a federal program that permits people who take…

21

• Trump seeks sharp cuts to housing aid. President Trump’s budget calls for sharply reducing funding for programs that shelter the poor and combat homelessness — with a notable exception: It leaves intact…

16

• EEUU: Viviendas caras desalientan compras, suben alquileres. Una escasa oferta está haciendo subir los precios de las viviendas en grandes sectores de áreas metropolitanas, desde Nueva York y Miami hasta Los Ángeles,…

15

• Trump wants to hide your complaints about Wall Street. The U.S. Department of the Treasury formally recommended that Congress and the White House stop public access to a database that collects consumer complaints about financial companies,…

• Wells Fargo is accused of making improper changes to mortgages. Even as Wells Fargo was reeling from a major scandal in its consumer bank last year, officials in the company’s mortgage business were putting through…

• No down payment? No problem, say lenders eager to finance homes. They were all the rage — then the scourge — of the housing boom and bust. Now they’re back, big time: home mortgages that require…

14

• Comprar casa ¿misión imposible?. Los préstamos FHA ayudan a pasar la primera barrera, el pago inicial de la adquisición de una vivienda Dicen los expertos en finanzas personales que…

• Trump's Wall Street game plan needs players. Wall Street banks on Tuesday cheered U.S. President Donald Trump's plans to loosen the leash put on them in the wake of the 2008 financial…

• Los Ángeles deberá pagar 500 mil dólares por arrebatarles a los indigentes propiedad personal. Varios activistas a favor del sector indigente se encuentran indignados y al mismo tiempo conformes tras recibir la noticia de que la ciudad de Los…

13

• Financial advice from one millennial to another. Millennials get a bad rap when it comes to how they handle their money.

• Trump to deny nursing-home residents the right to sue. Thanks to a rule put in place last fall by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, nursing homes that receive federal funding — which…

09

• How much you would need to afford rent in your state. There is nowhere in this country where someone working a full-time minimum wage job could afford to rent a two-bedroom apartment, according to an annual…

08

• Landlord Steve Croman to serve 1 Year for tax fraud (Chinese). (本報訊)長期名列紐約市最壞房東名單上的地產大亨史蒂芬·格羅曼（Steven Croman）去年被控20項重罪，紐約州總檢長史樹德昨（6日）發表聲明稱，格羅曼已於日前承認自己以欺詐手段騙取貸款重新融資以及稅務詐騙等行為。

• How House bill would dismantle Dodd-Frank reforms. The House of Representatives is preparing to vote on Thursday on a bill intended to make sweeping changes to the financial regulatory system. Here are…

07

• CFPB defenders brace for House vote on Dodd-Frank rollback. Progressive lawmakers and political groups are attempting to rally opposition before the House votes on the Financial CHOICE Act this week. That bill, sponsored by…

06

• States with more black people have less generous welfare benefits. How much cash welfare assistance families in poverty receive largely depends on where they live, with welfare eroding in every state except Oregon over the…

05

• Reforms on the table for new kind of home-improvement loan. Home financing programs, formally known as Property Assessed Clean Energy (PACE), are established by governments to help homeowners pay for energy-efficient appliances and projects through…

02

• Airbnb is popular, but renting out your car? That’s another story. On any given holiday weekend, there might be a million people paying to stay in rooms in somebody’s house or putting their whole family up…

01

• Multiple mortgage applications affected by abusing hidden accounts (Chinese). 【新唐人2017年06月02日讯】许多银行、信用卡公司为了抢占市场，经常推出一些〝开户送礼〞的促销手段。如果为了一点礼金、礼品的好处而开了太多户头，其实很有可能影响您的信用分数，增加申请贷款时的难度。来听一下专家的建议。

• 7 ways to ready your finances for divorce. Untangling two people’s money is messy. Long before spousal or child support is awarded or your post-divorce budget is in place, you’ll need to prepare your…

May

25

• Court weighs whether Trump can say "You're fired!" to consumer watchdog. In a packed courtroom at the U.S. District Court of Appeals, the 11 judges peppered the attorneys for the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau and mortgage…

24

• White House banks on savings from Dodd-Frank rollback. President Trump’s first formal budget plan reflects his promise to dismantle the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act with a pledge to foster…

• The case that could doom Elizabeth Warren’s Wall Street watchdog. The fate of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau and its chief, Richard Cordray, is in the hands of a Washington appeals court that will hear arguments…