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Automobiles are easy to finance with adverse credit. In fact, many consumers opt to get approve for an automobile loan in an attempt to boost their credit rating. If financing a vehicle, you have the option of securing your own private financing or accepting a loan package offered by the dealership. Here are a few tips to help you secure auto financing with bad credit.

Know Your Credit Rating Beforehand

Do not enter the car buying process blindly. Before beginning your search for the perfect automobile, request a copy of your free credit report. This way, you have an accurate picture of your credit rating. If your score is high, you can expect a good offer.

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Elizabeth Gilbert, the author of the megabestseller “Eat Pray Love,” has an essay in the latest issue of O magazine called “Confessions of an Over-Giver.” She writes that when she suddenly became rich from the proceeds of her book, she indulged her long-standing tendency to give too much–and did it on a grand scale. “I was like an alcoholic locked in a distillery–what wonderful and terrible luck!” she writes.

She paid off her friends’ credit card bills, helped them catch up on their mortgages, even bought houses for two. Now some of those friends aren’t her friends any more.

By erasing years of obstacles, she also sometimes erased their dignity. Sometimes her over-

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It is not too late to get a new credit card before Christmas, writes Jill Insley in The Guardian. Those looking for an interest-free deal should consider the Tesco Clubcard or M&S credit card – both are offering 15 months at 0%. Shoppers looking for a cash-back card should look to Capital One World MasterCard. It offers 5% cash back on purchases up to £2,000 for the first three months, up to a maximum of £100.

• If you have a savings account with National Savings & Investment (NS&I), check the rate you are getting: around 2.5 million people with savings accounts at NS&I receive less than 0.7% interest on their money, says Dan Hyde at Thisismoney.co.uk. The w

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Rake the leaves. Watch No. 1-ranked LSU play No. 2 Alabama in college football. Do anything this weekend to catch your breath from Groupon’s IPO release on Thursday and its first day of trading Friday.

Then think. Think if you really want to take the plunge on Groupon (GRPN) when the market opens on Monday. Think if you can stomach buying shares in a Wall Street rookie that has lost hundreds of millions of dollars over the last three years.

It was easy to get caught up in the Groupon hoopla this week. Many did. The deal-packager sold 35 million shares at $20 a pop to amass $700 million in Thursday’s IPO. Full Article…

Have you had a recent theft at your business? Before you rush out and replace the stolen items, it might be worth considering the possibility of a repeat offence. Repeat robberies are most common among retail and small businesses and usually happen within a month of the original crime. As well as the risk of increased NJ business insurance claims, repeat victimization could have a highly detrimental effect on employee productivity and mental health.

If your business has recently fallen victim to theft, it is important to increase security measures in order to prevent a reoccurrence.

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