Ask the Dolans: Your Top Financial Crisis Questions
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Ken and Daria Dolan, America's First Family of Personal Finance, answer your money questions every Friday.
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With the presidential election just days away, you would think we'd be hearing about some real solutions to the unprecedented challenges facing our economy right now (what a concept!) Wrong. The financial crisis has brought about more questions than answers and we've had it up to here.
You deserve answers, so we're taking matters into our own hands and tackling your most pressing concerns about the market mess. Everything from retirement to investing to getting a loan, these are the straight answers you won't get anywhere else.
Not sure where to turn in the midst of the financial crisis? Ken and Daria offer real solutions, tools and strategies on Dolans.com to help you survive and thrive.
Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
10-31-2008 @ 9:34PM
charlie said...
I didn;t think you have the guts to print my letter.
Ms Dolan said on the radio..don;t just blame the democrats the republicans are guilty for the banking crisis too. She is either igonorant of the facts or covering up for the democrats.
Bill clinton allowed Barney Franks who was head of the Congrressioal Banking comittee to open up the flood gates of money to unqualified borrowers. Acorn, another democratic pupet organization pushed banks to loan money to unqualified borrowers. All this was done by Democrats. The Congress has been controled by Polosi and Harry Reed..Democratcs..now who is the mainly responsible? Come clean with the truth MS. Dolan
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11-02-2008 @ 1:56PM
getwau said...
This economic crisis has opportunity written all over it for people in the know, are optimistic, or listen to advisors like the Dolans and others. You know, there is opportunity lurking all over out there. There are people making strategic moves and will make a fortune from this period. Everything is on sale: businesses, real estate, stocks, etc. It just comes down to having the liquidity to start taking advantage of the bargains.
We will shake our heads at the missed opportunities when we look back.
EVERYTHING WILL REBOUND!
CASH! Piles of cold hard cash is the best way to weather the current economic situation. I discovered one of the best books you'll ever find about finance, "How to Become Filthy Rich on Your Current Income" at www.how-to-become-rich.com. If people read books like this one we would not have the current situation we do. As many people see doom and gloom right now, I see opportunity.
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11-03-2008 @ 11:29AM
charlie said...
Sure you can have made alot of money on the stock market. If the democrats have their way your taxes on those profits will go up 30 percent..now how much do you have to earn. Oh by- the- way. the company has to pay all the extra taxes on their profits before you get your dividend or they show a profit and that is going to up 30 percent or so..now how much do you have left?
You don;thave to be to smart to see what the tax bill and all the spending for the new governemnt programs are going to do to savers and investors.
MRS Doland is claiming "the republicans are just as guilty as the democrats" BS. it started with bill colinton, barney franks, and acorn. Now we will have a democratic left wing congress and senate, an inexperienced, socialist president and a bunch of liberal promises for trillions of government spending. Need i say more?
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11-10-2008 @ 7:14PM
old 'n tired said...
I agree with Charlie. I stumbled on this site looking for answers about why Obama feels he has accss to my 401k. All I found was the same old rhetoric. Nothing new. Who pays these clowns?
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11-27-2008 @ 6:52PM
Darlina Morris said...
Why aren't people being told everything about the so called FDIC insured at our banks? Like the frightening one like, yes your money is insured but the government has 99 years to pay it to you.What kind of insurance is this or I should say a false sense of insurance. My niece who works at a bank told me this and when I called my own bank and asked my bank manager up front, he verified that fact. So tell me please how pulling your money out with this bank crisis isn't insuring it a better econimic future for ourselves? Our government is borrowing money because it has none and we are to trust them to pay us back ours? tThis is insane thinking. Could you please reply and if you are aware of this 99 year clause with the FDIC insured thing then why, why, why aren't you mentioning it to us?
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12-19-2008 @ 1:43PM
Ron Bulwin said...
Anyone that has more control of my life, my money and
my property than I do, I will never trust!
I wouldn't trust Jesus Christ and the 12 Apostles with
the kind of money and power we entrust to ordinary and
fallible human beings!
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12-22-2008 @ 12:37PM
Rosemarie M. Deitz said...
Am I the only one who is complaining about the price of Health Ins. I'm 62, and was just informed that my Health Ins. in 09, will go up from $746 to $970.00 a month. That's my whole SS check, plus half of my Husband's. What do I do, stop eating, heating? It's outragious, to say the least. What's really funny, is we make under $50,000, a yr. So if I drop it, what then. I've called all over, I don't qualify for anything. Come January, can you imagine how many more Americans will be uninsured?? It's a discrace, and it's got me sick, how can I do this. Where are these smart Polititions now, or is this the best kept secret???
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