What do you think of Sony saying the PSN is down "indefinitely" and the stolen information?

FROM INTERNET SOURCES:

I'm kinda pissed off about it.I got the email for sony about my account last night. When the network is back up I'd like at least $50.00 in credit for my trouble or i will continue to be pissed off about it. I need them to do something for me to make me feel better about it. I don't feel i deserve money cause the network is down. It's because they allowed my info to get hacked. I now need to get new cc num watch my credit report and change every password i have.

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I need a company that will give me a personal loan with bad credit to consolidate CC and give me extra cash.?

I need the extra cash to pay off some bills that are not credit cards and to put new tires on both of the vehicles. Credit Card Consolidation will not work in my situation. I had good credit at one time but now it is not so great.

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Can someone with less than one year work experience with $28,000/year income be approved for $168,000 home?

I was - with Wells Fargo Home Mortgage. They said my excellent credit helped 730 and because I was preapproved with MidAmerican Home Mortgage. Now, for the dilema. I signed a contract to buy a house for $168,000 and was approved for the loan pending my financial situation doesn't change (this was in Feb. 07) The house finished build date was about Oct. 07. I locked into a rate at 6.125 using 1% non-refundable down. I am not making enough money now to afford this place, so I told them I want to back out. THEY WON'T let me! The builder wants me to pay for the upgrades even though I notified them of my status before the upgrades were put into place. And, I can't get any of my 1% down back even though I can prove I cannot afford the place. HOW DOES A BANK EVEN APPROVE SOMEONE IN MY FINANCIAL SITUATION FOR 168,000 in the FIRST PLACE?
IS THIS LEGAL? Do I have legal recourse if they try to sue me for the upgrades or "breach of contract?"
-----Please HELP!

You signed a contract and put down a down payment, the only thing you can do now is sell it when it gets done. They should never have approved you for it but YOU should have known that you could not afford it also. In the end it is your responsibility to figure out how much you can afford.

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Counterparty Credit Risk The New Challen (Hardcover) $56.33 The first decade of the 21st Century has been disastrous for financial institutions, derivatives and risk management. Counterparty credit risk has become the key element of financial risk management, highlighted by the bankruptcy of the investment bank Lehman Brothers and failure of other high profile institutions such as Bear Sterns, AIG, Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. The sudden realisation of extensive counterparty risks has severely compromised the health of global financial markets. Counterparty risk is now a key problem for all financial institutions. This book explains the emergence of counterparty risk during the recent credit crisis. The quantification of firm-wide credit exposure for trading desks and businesses is discussed alongside risk mitigation methods such as netting and collateral management (margining). Banks and other financial institutions have been recently developing their capabilities for pricing counterparty risk and these elements are considered in detail via a characterisation of credit value adjustment (CVA). The implications of an institution valuing their own default via debt value adjustment (DVA) are also considered at length. Hedging aspects, together with the associated instruments such as credit defaults swaps (CDSs) and contingent CDS (CCDS) are described in full. A key feature of the credit crisis has been the realisation of wrong-way risks illustrated by the failure of monoline insurance companies. Wrong-way counterparty risks are addressed in detail in relation to interest rate, foreign exchange, commodity and, in particular, credit derivative products. Portfolio counterparty risk is covered, together with the regulatory aspects as defined by the Basel II capital requirements. The management of counterparty risk within an institution is also discussed in detail. Finally, the design and benefits of central clearing, a recent development to attempt to control the rapid growth of counterparty risk, is cons

Rating Based Modeling of Credit Risk (Hardcover) $68.56 In the last decade rating-based models have become very popular in credit risk management. These systems use the rating of a company as the decisive variable to evaluate the default risk of a bond or loan. The popularity is due to the straightforwardness of the approach, and to the upcoming new capital accord (Basel II), which allows banks to base their capital requirements on internal as well as external rating systems. Because of this, sophisticated credit risk models are being developed or demanded by banks to assess the risk of their credit portfolio better by recognizing the different underlying sources of risk. As a consequence, not only default probabilities for certain rating categories but also the probabilities of moving from one rating state to another are important issues in such models for risk management and pricing. It is widely accepted that rating migrations and default probabilities show significant variations through time due to macroeconomics conditions or the business cycle. These changes in migration behavior may have a substantial impact on the value-at-risk (VAR) of a credit portfolio or the prices of credit derivatives such as collateralized debt obligations (D+CDOs). In this book the authors develop a much more sophisticated analysis of migration behavior. Their contribution of more sophisticated techniques to measure and forecast changes in migration behavior as well as determining adequate estimators for transition matrices is a major contribution to rating based credit modeling.*Internal ratings-based systems are widely used in banks to calculate their value-at-risk (VAR) in order to determine their capital requirements for loan and bond portfolios under Basel II*One aspect of these ratings systems is credit migrations, addressed in a systematic and comprehensive way for the first time in this book*The book is based on in-depth work by Trueck and Rachev,

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How many credit cards should you have to rebuild credit?

I am trying to rebuild my credit after ID theft, a couple of problems that were mine and years of basically not having any credit reported. (I primarily use my debit card and pay cash for everything). I make good money now and am trying to rebuild in order to purchase a condo in the next couple of years. My good accounts (rental, club, cable, cell, etc.) have not reported my good credit. So how many cards should I take out that will help boost my credit score but not hinder my credit. Thank you!

I would take out no more than 2. I would start out with a secured card. Granted you would have to put a deposit upfront to secure a line of credit, but the deposit would also garner interest while you're proving your creditworthiness. You could start out small, like $200-300 or larger like $1000-2000. Either way, I strongly suggest you to continue to use your debit card and pay cash like you've been doing, and make small purchases that you can pay off in full every month (around $20-50). I would only use the credit card in dire emergencies. After the secured card becomes unsecured, then you could receive offers for other cards, but chances are just the one card could work just as well. Be sure to dispute anything that was involved in the identity theft and make sure that you have a POLICE REPORT. Your "good accounts" (rental, club, cable, cell, etc.) CAN be reported through this reporting agency called PRBC. (http://prbc.com/default.php?) This is for REAL. You can have your good credit reported and complied in a scored report that can be considered with your traditional credit reports. It's become increasingly popular and I'm certain that it will help you out immensely.

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Should consumers borrow in 2010?

Let's get some facts straight about our economy. It will cost the UK government 1.6 trillion pounds to pay off all our public debt and liabilities at a national level. Corporate borrowing is 2.5 trillion pounds which excludes the banks and personal debt: credit cards, overdrafts and mortgages are currently running at 1.8 trillion and rising. That's over £300,000 of debt for every family in Britain.
Where do I get my figures from? The Office of National Statistics when compiled for overall totals.
Scary isn't it and this time we don't have North Sea oil to bail us out.
Yes I know the media and the politicians are talking up the economy. That's their job! Your job is to safeguard your future as much as you can. Pay down your debts, avoid any new borrowing and try and build a financial cushion against future shocks because they're coming.
We can't keep printing money forever. Do you agree with this advice, what would you recommend?

Actually...if you do it correctly, you can keep borrowing forever.

Hopefully, you don't mind me butting in -- I am an American, but we have the same problem, so I hope I am not too terribly out of line.

In the big picture I am more-or-less on your side. I am financially conservative personally and professionally and I think my government should be too...but straight forward here is the debt, divide by the population, "this is what we owe" analysis misses some really important facts about different kinds of borrowing. In most respects, it is just plain wrong.

For example, do you think it is a bad idea for anyone to buy a house? Most people (in the US) do not. For generations, Americans have had one of the highest national home ownership rates in the world buy borrowing 200% to 300% of their annual income over 30 years to buy a home. For those people (like me) who did exactly what our parents and grandparents did, we have stable and affordable housing in difficult times as a direct result of massive borrowing (relative to income). (I am one of the 40% of US homeowners who owns my home outright, no mortgage now)

The use of debt for investment and income generating purposes is something that is entirely different than borrowing for consumption or wealth transfers. Such borrowing can go on for hundreds of years with comfort and ease. Massive companies like Walmart. Unilever, and Tesco have been doing it with billions for decades. Companies like Altria, GE, Royal Dutch Shell, British American Tobacco, & ATT have been doing it for 100 years or more.

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I need help on my finance study?

Okay, so for english we are doing a finance study.
We have to do a couple words.
Please help me write a definition that isn't with big words that I don't understand.

Sorry I don't do homework for people on this. Anyone who does it for you is doing you no favours. I haven't been rude to you. Just giving you a straight honest answer here. Which you sadly can't take

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