Understanding Direct Borrowing and Lending Online
June 8, 2009
Hosted by Jordan Goodman
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Episode Description
The credit crunch means that many people who need loans have a hard time getting them from traditional banks these days. A new alternative called Person-to-Person Lending has come along to fill in the gap. Over $130 million a year is now being borrowed and lent directly over the Internet. Curtis Arnold, an expert on credit issues who runs Card Ratings.com, discusses the whole person-to-person lending phenomen in this interview. For borrowers, this concept allows you to borrow at much lower rates than you could get from a bank. For lenders, it allows you to earn a higher yield than you could get from bank CDs or money funds and still have great security. Find out much more about this fascinating new way to bank in this Money Answers interview!
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Jordan Goodman
Jordan Goodman has a mission: to help everyone do better with money. Since graduating the Columbia University School of Journalism in 1977, he has spent the past 32 years combing the country to find the very best ways to help consumers make and save money and then sharing these gems with the public. As a staff writer/reporter at MONEY Magazine for 18 years, a weekly commentator on NBC News at Sunrise and Public Radio’s Marketplace Morning Report, and through his 12, soon to be 13 highly respected books, and his website www.moneyanswers.com, he has provided useful, common-sense information to the public. Some of his better-known books include Fast Profits in Hard Times, Everyone’s Money Book, the Dictionary of Finance and Investment Terms and Master Your Money Type. Jordan is a rare combination: someone who possesses not only encyclopedic knowledge about every area of personal finance but also a passion for helping his listeners not only to get educated but to take action to help their dreams become realities.