BGE Rates To Rise About 5.5 Percent -- http://www.wbaltv.com/news/15117286/detail.html
POSTED: 8:17 am EST January 23, 2008
UPDATED: 10:20 am EST January 23, 2008


BALTIMORE -- Electricity rates are headed higher for Baltimore Gas & Electric's residential customers.State officials said federal rules are driving up wholesale energy prices and ( Read more... )

My car died ( Read more... )

I'm really irritated right now.  I hate how our pay schedule works.  I planned my finances around us getting paid today.  I come to find out it will be on Tuesday.  I figured as much fuss as they made about getting our pay sheets in early this time they would pay us today or Monday at the latest.  Turns out we don't get paid until Tuesday.  This ( Read more... )

Forty dollars for a Big Mac? That might sound over the top, but it barely tips the outrage meter when you compare it to the 20,000-percent-interest loan U.S. consumers regularly take out to pay for such $40 burgers. How could this be?

Well, bounced checks just aren't what they used to be.

A new study says that most of the time consumers ( Read more... )