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Capital One to Buy Chevy Chase Bank for $520 Million
Capital One Financial Corp. (COF: 30.99 -1.90%) announced Thursday it has agreed to acquire Maryland-based Chevy Chase Bank for $520 million...

Ineffective assistance in capital trial?
a href="http://cjonline.com/stories/122208/loc_370073779.shtml"Here/a is a Topeka Capital-Journal article reporting some details of the remand hearing granted by the KSC in emState v...

The U.S. Capital Gains Tax Rate: An International Perspective
A new report by Ernst & Young, commissioned by the American Council for Capital Formation, compares individual long-term capital gains taxes among 25 major economies of the world as well as major trading partners of the U...

The Pros and Cons of Receiving Funding from Strategic Investors
Entrepreneurs often seek funding from the venture capital arms of large companies...

Ray Brescia on the Social Capital Response to the Subprime Mortgage Crisis
Ray Brescia of Albany has written "Capital in Chaos: The Subprime Mortgage Crisis and the Social Capital Response," 56 Cleveland St...

CBO Report: Capital Budgeting, May 2008
Capital Budgeting, May 2008 | pdf | blog "Proponents of capital budgeting assert that the current budgetary treatment of capital...

Some elses debt is being reported by a bank to the crecit agencies. They know and have ackowledged it is not mine, yet it is still being listed as mine. it was my son's and no I didn't co-sign. It is adversly
It is easy for the bank and the credit reporting agencies to clear this confusio...

Is a child fathered out of wedlock by an American diplomat to a foreign women on foreign soil entitled to US Citizenship by jus sanguinis?
This is a very tough situation your friend is in. It is difficult to know the ex...

How to stop harrassing calls from ex-boyfriend?
I would pray on him to not keep on harrassing me and i'm telling you it wil...

I had a credit card which was charged off at a balance less than 200.00. Now the balance is over 500.00. I know this includes fees. I am aware they can charge interest, but can the credit card company bill fees, as well?
Yes. But they will often waive off the excessive fees if you offer a payment. If...

I am aware of the true definintion of a charge off. But if a creditor writes off an amount owed and closes the debtor's account, doesn't that make the balance zero? Can the creditor continue to charge the debtor interest
Yes, a creditor can continue to charge a debtor (customer) interest even if the ...

Capital One Faces Potential Class Action over Interest Rate Hikes
Capital One Faces Potential Class Action over Interest Rate Hikes

Pacific Capital Bancorp 401(k) / ERISA Stock Fraud
Pacific Capital Bancorp 401(k) / ERISA Stock Fraud

Morgan Stanley Capital
401(k) / ERISA Stock Fraud

Frank Bluestein, The Maximum Financial Group, Inc., Questar Capital Corporation, and Gunnallen Financial, Inc.
alleging schemed investors out of hundreds of millions of dollars.

Stock Market Losses
alleging bad financial advice and conflicts of interest.

JP Morgan Chase & Co
Faces Lawsuit Over Hikes in Credit Card Interest Rate