Article recounts wasteful spending, pawned jewels, and a daughter's traumas
Talk to a bank lending officer, as the Federal Reserve does, and you might conclude from its quarterly surveys that the tightening of loan terms has ebbed to the point where there's a balance between banks that have tightened and those that are easing.
As the housing market continues to struggle, Hanley Wood Market Intelligence (HWMI), a sister company to ProSales, has kept lowering its 2011-2015 housing starts forecasts from what it predicted last March and then revised in September.
"Anything you can do to increase the top-of-mind awareness for your customers can be beneficial," says Daniel Baker., vice president of retail operations at Koopman Lumber, a dealer based in Whitinsville, Mass. Koopman does that by e-mailing a newsletter to 1,200 of its customers.
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