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		<title>Credit Card Companies Fail To Provide Full Penalty Rate Disclosures</title>
		<link>http://ctwatchdog.com/2010/07/27/credit-card-companies-fail-to-provide-full-penalty-rate-disclosures</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Jul 2010 19:48:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>LowCards.com</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Despite legislation to make credit card terms fair and easy-to-understand for consumers, the new regulations have opened the door to changes that can make cardholders &#8220;vulnerable and uninformed.&#8221; The Pew Health Group study (entitled &#8220;Two Steps Forward: After the Card Act, Credit Cards are Safer and More Transparent&#8211;But Challenges Remain&#8221;) released last week analyzed and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;Cost of Living Increases&#8221; to Conn Officials Unjustified</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Jul 2010 12:51:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>George Gombossy</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Care to know why Connecticut colleges and the University of Connecticut needs huge influx of additional money each year? One reason is cost of living increases for folks making more than $290,000 annually. It is fascinating how the trustees of the Connecticut State University System can justify voting Monday to give their top executives 5 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Picking A College, A Primer With Tons Of Great Tips</title>
		<link>http://ctwatchdog.com/2010/07/26/picking-a-college-a-primer-with-tons-of-great-tips</link>
		<comments>http://ctwatchdog.com/2010/07/26/picking-a-college-a-primer-with-tons-of-great-tips#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Jul 2010 12:50:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>George Gombossy</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[My friend and former collegue when we both worked at The Courant, Ed LaFreniere has written a guide to help narrow your search for college. It is an issue that we will come back to many times as I believe educating our your is crucial. I also believe that we waste a lot of money [...]]]></description>
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		<title>New Condo Rules In Conn Helps Owners Learn What Their Associations Are Up To</title>
		<link>http://ctwatchdog.com/2010/07/24/new-condo-rules-in-conn-helps-owners-learn-what-their-associations-are-up-to</link>
		<comments>http://ctwatchdog.com/2010/07/24/new-condo-rules-in-conn-helps-owners-learn-what-their-associations-are-up-to#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 24 Jul 2010 17:34:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>George Gombossy</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[For an estimated 250,000 condominium owners in Connecticut, this month will be remembered as the watershed time when unprecedented legal protections went into effect. Thanks to legislation adopted by the General Assembly and signed by Gov. M. Jodi Rell, the playing field &#8211; according to state Consumer Protection Commissioner Jerry Farrell Jr. –  for condo [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Financial Reform Doesn’t Address Our $10 Trillion Problem</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 24 Jul 2010 14:58:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David Fiderer</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[George Gombossy asked for my thoughts on the new financial reform legislation. I have many, which I intend to share periodically going forward. But I think it’s important to place the legislation in the context of the big picture, which for me is framed by the numbers. The financial crisis was caused by the rise [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Confessions From Debt Collectors</title>
		<link>http://ctwatchdog.com/2010/07/21/confessions-from-debt-collectors</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Jul 2010 02:13:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>George Gombossy</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Thanks to CNN for its interviews with former and present debt collectors, giving us a clue to what makes these people tick. Check out the story of these people. Like, Mel Harsh, a debt collector for 20 years, with only one week left with an auto finance company. &#8220;I was absolutely ruthless when I first started [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Tips To Improve Low Credit Scores: A Primer On Credit</title>
		<link>http://ctwatchdog.com/2010/07/21/tips-to-improve-low-credit-scores</link>
		<comments>http://ctwatchdog.com/2010/07/21/tips-to-improve-low-credit-scores#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Jul 2010 00:56:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>LowCards.com</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[According to a recent FICO study, over one-fourth (25.5%) of Americans have poor credit. Nearly 43.4 million people now have a credit score of 599 or below. When you go to the grocery store or a ballgame, look around&#8211;one in four people around you have serious financial problems. Expect that number to grow as households continue to struggle [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Attorneys Claim Consumer Financial Reform Will Protect Against Abusive Arbitrations</title>
		<link>http://ctwatchdog.com/2010/07/21/attorneys-claim-consumer-financial-reform-will-protect-against-abusive-arbitrations</link>
		<comments>http://ctwatchdog.com/2010/07/21/attorneys-claim-consumer-financial-reform-will-protect-against-abusive-arbitrations#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Jul 2010 14:38:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Press Release</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[President Obama will take an important step today toward protecting consumers by signing into law the new Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB), under the just-passed Wall Street Reform Act, to help limit the use of abusive forced arbitration clauses in financial contracts. “The new CFPB will help address the abusive forced arbitration practices used by [...]]]></description>
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		<title>IRS Tax Tip: Deduct Job Search Expenses</title>
		<link>http://ctwatchdog.com/2010/07/19/irs-tax-tip-deduct-job-search-expenses</link>
		<comments>http://ctwatchdog.com/2010/07/19/irs-tax-tip-deduct-job-search-expenses#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Jul 2010 08:51:29 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Did you know that you may be able to deduct some of your job search expenses on your tax return? Many taxpayers spend time during the summer months updating their résumé and attending career fairs. If you are searching for a job this summer, you may be able to deduct some of your expenses on [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Bristol Consumer Advocate Taking On Minimum Purchase Requirements For Credit Cards</title>
		<link>http://ctwatchdog.com/2010/07/17/bristol-consumer-advocate-taking-on-minimum-purchase-requirements-for-credit-cards</link>
		<comments>http://ctwatchdog.com/2010/07/17/bristol-consumer-advocate-taking-on-minimum-purchase-requirements-for-credit-cards#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 17 Jul 2010 22:59:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>George Gombossy</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Marcus Patten is a consumer advocate. A full-time associate television producer from Bristol, Patten has been carrying on a small battle on behalf of consumers like himself for the past year. Patten was upset about signs he saw in stores &#8211; especially gas stations – saying that in order to charge a purchase, customers needed [...]]]></description>
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