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WASHINGTON -- With final negotiations under way on legislation to establish federal higher education policy for the next five years, New Orleans area college administrators are pushing for inclusion of a House-passed measure that would make their schools eligible for low-interest loans for hurricane-related issues.

There's a silver lining to the credit crisis for student borrowers. Last week, President Bush signed a bill that will let undergraduate college students take out an extra $2,000 per year in federally guaranteed Stafford loans. The change won't necessarily...

My partner and I need to acquire a loan for her grad school. The catch(es): She's not a citizen. We're gay. We don't have the first clue how to go about doing this. Help! My partner is from Canada. A Canadian loan is out of the question. (Period! Don't even suggest Canadian student aid...it won't help!) She has one year of grad school left, which will be around $30,000. I make a pretty good living here in the midwest (less than triple digits, but not substantially less), though the two of us must live on my single income, but paying off the loan shouldn't be too difficult. We're young. My credit is right there in the middle, not great, not wonderful.

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HELENA - With the legislative auditor saying he can't legally audit two student loan agencies, directors of one of the entities voted Wednesday to furnish copies of its past audits to the Board of Regents.

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PersonalFinanceFilter: 25 year old looking to start making payments into something pensionesque, but with an international bent. Any suggestions? I think it's time to start a pension (overdue, probably). I am British but have a Significant Other who has ties to three other countries, and feeling not a massive attachment to the UK, there's a reasonable chance that I won't be seeing out my days here. I earn about 25k a year before taxes. I'm living in London so there's not a massive amount left at the end of the month, but I'd like to start putting a little something by. So what do people advise? Would a regular British pension with a reputable company (Scottish Widows &c) be a good bet if I plan on disappearing from these shores in the next five, ten, fifteen, thirty years? Or might a regular/fancy savings account that isn't technically a pension but might operate like one (and still be around in ~50 years) be better for my situation?

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Secured loans are loans which you take out using your house for collateral. But with the recent credit crunch, and hints that housing market is going stabilise at best and crash at worse, less lenders are willing to offer any kind of loan. The first hit happened to the mortgage sector, with products previously available in the market place such as 125% mortgages suddenly disappearing fast. Even 90% mortgages are nowadays hard to come by, meaning large deposits and high wages are your best bet of being offered a reasonable deal.

We are swimming in a world of debt. Somewhere in the past decade debt lost the negative connotation of being a four letter word. In fact, the language of so many things has changed and the ultimate ramifications now have sweet language to soften the utter destructiveness of the underlying instrument. [...] Related Posts: ■ The Menace of Mortgage Debts: Lessons from the Great Depression Series: Part IV: Where do we go After the Housing Crash? ■ Crash! The Housing Market Free Fall and Client #10 Contagion. Lessons From the Great Depression: Part VI. ■ Lessons From the Great Depression: A Letter from a former Banking President Discussing the Bubble. ■ Winston Smith and the Bailouts in Oceania: Lessons from the Great Depression Part VII. ■ Business Devours its Young: Lessons from the Great Depression: Part V: Destroying the Working Class.

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