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About Your Credit Card…

You could soon be seeing an increase in the fees your credit card company is charging you:
Credit card companies are now raising your interest rates and lowering limits for all customers before new tougher rules to protect the consumer, take effect next year.
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http://www.whec.com/news/stories/S1005003.shtml?cat=566

Bankruptcy Filings Increasing In Ohio

From Ohio…
New filings at the Dayton office of the U.S. Bankruptcy Court increased from just over 4,000 in 2006 to 6,800 in 2008.
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http://www.whiotv.com/money/19251349/detail.html

Bankruptcies Increased by 34% in January!

Year over year bankruptcies increase from January 2008 to January 2009.
Personal bankruptcy filings in the U.S. rose 34 percent in January as the deepening economic crisis drove many to seek court protection from creditors.
Read it all here:
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601087&sid=aOnsz9q3r8_8&refer=home

More People Filing Bankruptcy

From The New York Times:
More than a million people filed for personal bankruptcy in the 12 months that ended last September, a staggering 30 percent increase over the period a year earlier..
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http://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/24/your-money/24cost.html?ref=business

Bankruptcies in Arizona

Here’s the latest from another bubble state: Arizona.
This increase in Chapter 7 bankruptcy filings continued last month:
Consumers and businesses initiated 1,552 filings in the Valley and 2,119 statewide last month. Both were easily the highest totals so far in 2008.
http://www.azcentral.com/arizonarepublic/
It even quotes a bankruptcy lawyer saying that this is the busiest he’s been since the [...]