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Direct Capital

From my earlier post, I’d like to express how much I dislike this company and why. First of all, they weren’t totally honest with me from the beginning. We were told we had to give them a processing fee, which I understand. The processing fee is nonrefundable… even if you don’t get the loan. I [...]

Necessary Layoffs?

I’m reading an article in the Arkansas News online addition, and I notice something that most of us would consider a little strange. Let me explain something first. As I’m sure you know, Wal-Mart recently laid off between 700 and 800 employees. The normal logic to this would be for us to assume that Wal-Mart [...]

Walmart Announces Layoffs

You know things are getting pretty bad when Walmart starts to lay off employees.  CEO Mike Duke announced yesterday that Walmart would lay off approximately 700 – 800 employees from the Walmart home office in Bentonville, Arkansas. Walmart has always been a stronghold here in the Northwest Arkansas area and I’m sure it’s one of [...]

Stimulus Package Passes 61-37

So they’ve passed the stimulus package… now what? The Dow took a dive of more than 380 points and the economy still looks as bad today as it did yesterday. In fact, the economy looks worse today then it did 2 months ago. They spent so much time fighting over the amount of the package [...]