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California unclaimed money fund averages $5 billion

Wed, 20 Aug 2008 07:30:38 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Golden State residents suffering from high fuel prices and mortgage crisis may have more money than they think- California unclaimed money from financial assets they've lost track of.

Clip Source: ezinearticles.com

The state of California's unclaimed funds program takes in roughly $300 million annually. What's it to you? Well, if you or someone you know is or was a former resident of the Golden State (or had any kind of business dealings, whether you knew it or not), some of that big pile of California missing money could very well be yours!

The total dollar amount for these funds in California averages $5 billion annually- imagine how much interest that generates for the state! Sacramento Attorney Bill Palmer, who has represented numerous cases involving California unclaimed money, said the state's program was supposed to be a lost and found of sorts for Californians. Instead, it was turned into a profit generating 'business' in the past few years.

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Buying Season For Cali Homes

Wed, 20 Aug 2008 06:51:39 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Great real estate deals in California counties and buyers snapping homes up. Good news for the state's housing market.

Clip Source: biz.yahoo.com

California homebuyers sprung to life in July, pouncing on foreclosed homes and deeply discounted properties but largely ignoring pricier homes that have been languishing on the market, a research firm said Tuesday.

The surge in sales was welcome news for the state's beleaguered housing market, which remains bloated with the nation's highest number of foreclosed homes and caught in a spiral of falling home prices.

Still, the positive sales figure offered little relief for those homeowners sweating the decline in home values.

The flood of foreclosure sales helped drag down the statewide median home price -- or the midpoint between the highest and lowest price -- to $318,000, a drop of 33.5 percent from July 2007.

In the San Francisco Bay area counties of Solano and Contra Costa, also foreclosure hotbeds, 11 ZIP codes saw sales of existing homes at least double from a year ago.

Tags: us mortgage crisis, us recession

Disease outbreak expected

Wed, 25 Jun 2008 07:01:20 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Expect more problems to come as a result of extreme climate changes from global warming.

Clip Source: news.yahoo.com

A "perfect storm" of diseases can get unleashed by the kind of extreme swings in weather expected with global warming, triggering mass die-offs of wildlife or livestock, research now reveals.

Now the first clear example of such a perfect storm of diseases has been discovered by an international team of scientists.

Global warming is predicted to lead to extreme swings in weather events such as droughts and floods. These could theoretically lead normally tolerable diseases to converge and trigger multiple outbreaks of epidemics with catastrophic mortality.

Tags: global warming, world health, climate change, global weather

Unclaimed Money In Indiana

Mon, 05 May 2008 03:42:24 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Over $300 million in the Indiana unclaimed property fund. The IN unclaimed money belongs to scores residents who have lost track of their financial assets. The lost money becomes state property after a while, so citizens should check and do an unclaimed money search ASAP!

Clip Source: ezinearticles.com

Each year states across the country, including Indiana, take in more unclaimed property than they return to the rightful owners, leading to piles of cash totaling tens of billions of dollars. Indiana unclaimed money alone now totals $350 million, and the money is there for the taking if the citizens it belongs to can just locate it and step forward to claim it.

The one downside to unclaimed money in Indiana is that there is a time limit on making your claim. Many states will hold your money forever, until some heir of yours claims it at some point, but Indiana only gives you 25 years. 25 years may sound like a long time, but if you consider that money becomes "unclaimed" because it's forgotten, which means there's a good chance it was abandoned a long time ago. Urgency is clearly key in locating lost property in the state of Indiana.

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Americans selling-off their belongings

Wed, 30 Apr 2008 08:15:26 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Are things really this bad?

Clip Source: news.yahoo.com

Struggling with mounting debt and rising prices, faced with the toughest economic times since the early 1990s, Americans are selling prized possessions online and at flea markets at alarming rates.

To meet higher gas, food and prescription drug bills, they are selling off grandmother's dishes and their own belongings. Some of the household purging has been extremely painful — families forced to part with heirlooms.

"This is not about downsizing. It's about needing gas money," said Nancy Baughman, founder of eBizAuctions, an online auction service she runs out of her garage in Raleigh, N.C. One former affluent customer is now unemployed and had to unload Hermes leather jackets and Versace jeans and silk shirts.

"It won't hit the saturation point until the (economy) hits the bottom and right now, we don't know when that is," he said.

Tags: recession, us economy, extra cash

health care going down too?

Wed, 30 Apr 2008 05:08:52 GMT

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clipper's remarks: first the recession and now this. = ( is this is all Dubya's doing?

Clip Source: news.yahoo.com

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Medicare is lurching toward disaster and it is too late for the Bush Administration and Congress to do anything about it, U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary Michael Leavitt said on Tuesday.

He said the next administration will have to act to stop rising costs and get control of the $400 billion federal health insurance plan for the elderly, which now covers 44 million people.

"Higher and higher costs are being borne by fewer and fewer people. Sooner or later, this formula implodes," Leavitt said in a speech to the right-leaning Heritage Foundation and American Enterprise Institute think-tanks.

"It troubles me that this matter is not receiving more attention in the presidential candidates' discussions. The next president will have to deal with this in significant part," he said.

Tags: us health care, medicaire, health news, recession, us economy

The Great Depression part 2?

Thu, 03 Apr 2008 04:41:17 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Are things really this bad? = (

Clip Source: www.independent.co.uk

USA 2008: The Great Depression

Food stamps are the symbol of poverty in the US. In the era of the credit crunch, a record 28 million Americans are now relying on them to survive – a sure sign the world's richest country faces economic crisis

We knew things were bad on Wall Street, but on Main Street it may be worse. Startling official statistics show that as a new economic recession stalks the United States, a record number of Americans will shortly be depending on food stamps just to feed themselves and their families.

The US Department of Agriculture says the cost of feeding a low-income family of four has risen 6 per cent in 12 months. "The amount of food stamps per household hasn't gone up with the food costs," says Dayna Ballantyne, who runs a food bank in Des Moines, Iowa. "Our clients are finding they aren't able to purchase food like they used to."

Tags: us economy, recession, wealth and finance

IN Unclaimed Money

Wed, 20 Feb 2008 07:21:15 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Hundreds of millions Indiana unclaimed money becomes state property if owners of unclaimed property in Indiana are no-shows after 25 years.

Clip Source: www.amazines.com

The one downside to unclaimed money in Indiana is that there is a time limit on making your claim. Many states will hold your money forever, until some heir of yours claims it at some point, but Indiana only gives you 25 years. 25 years may sound like a long time, but if you consider that money becomes “unclaimed” because it's forgotten, which means there's a good chance it was abandoned a long time ago. Urgency is clearly key in locating lost property in the state of Indiana.

Tags: in unclaimed money, in unclaimed property, in unclaimed funds, lost assets

Alabama State Treasure- Unclaimed Money

Wed, 06 Feb 2008 08:48:18 GMT

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clipper's remarks: This'll be a perfect source of extra cash especially with the dreary state of our economy nowadays.

Clip Source: alabamaunclaimedmoney.blogspot.com

Sunken treasure is not the only riches available for Americans wanting to go on a treasure hunt though. After reading the article on scuba-diving treasure hunters, I saw another news post about unclaimed money in Alabama and that the state treasurer has recently given away as much as $23 million of it to the state's residents in just a year's time. Well, the term 'given away' is kind of inappropriate- 'given back' is the better verb to use as the Alabama unclaimed money actually belonged to the people that received it in the first place. Learn more about national unclaimed money.

Tags: unclaimed property, search for unclaimed money, unclaimed funds

Macbook Air- light on hardware.

Wed, 06 Feb 2008 08:42:15 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Those willing to shell out big bucks for Steve Jobs' new laptop have to shell-out extra for essential features.

Clip Source: tech.yahoo.com

Blogs are buzzing with excitement at the possibility of seeing the MacBook Air in stores this week, and a few readers reportedly got a shipment notice from Apple with a February 1st delivery date. If you're one of the early adopters expecting a MacBook Air this week, then you should know you're going to need some extra accessories to make up for the notebook's lack of common features like extra ports, and optical drive. Here's a look at the accessories you'll need, and their price. Hope you put some extra money aside.

USB Hub

Ethernet Adapter ($29)

MacBook Air SuperDrive ($99)

MacBook Air Sleeve ($30-$50)

Tags: laptops, gadgets, mac, apple, macbook

State Unclaimed Money

Wed, 30 Jan 2008 02:52:36 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Millions of dollars unclaimed money in Alabama counties. I bet I have missing money with my state.

Clip Source: alabamaunclaimedmoney.blogspot.com

Good news for residents of Alabama counties raring to hit the stores for Valentine's presents- the State Treasurer may have shopping money for you! Treasurer Kay Ivy announced in a recent news report that over 5,000 names in Limestone County are owed part of the $1.2 million in the Treasurer's hands. The surprise cash flow isn't just limited to Limestone though. Another $5.5 million is waiting for residents of Lauderdale, Franklin, Lawrence and Colbert counties! All residents of Alabama and other states should do an unclaimed money search now to get extra cash in your pockets quick.

Unclaimed property money comes from financial assets that people have lost track of over the years. Insurance policies, tax refunds, retirement benefits- these are but a few examples of the numerous sources of Alabama unclaimed money residents are owed by the state

Tags: unclaimed money, alabama unclaimed money, missing money