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Welcome to this latest edition of Prosper’s Weekly Roundup. The title for this week’s roundup comes from a Forbes headline. There’s a lot going on in the news! Be sure to check out the Stocks and Banking Industry section for more information.

Peer-to-Peer Lending:
• TNL.net presents fast pace look into the History of Currency. P2P Lending is thought to be the ‘uncurrency’ for the lack of a better word.
• Sredel.com muses on P2P Lending - Counter to the Sub-Prime Loan Crisis?
• Peer to Peer Lending and P2P Loans writes Peer to Peer Campaign Finance.

Home and Auto:
• Real Estate Lens discusses VA Loans in VA Home Improvement Loan.
• Business Week Debates the Mortgage Bailout.
• Market Watch presents Best used-car bang for your buck!

Stocks and the Banking Industry:
• Wealth Weekly writes Financial Markets- Just What Went Down Last Week.
• Forbes on Bottom-Feeding Billionaires.
• Seeking Alpha discusses EarthLink options in Making the Best of a Difficult Situation.
• Fix My Personal Finances blogs Chicken Little and the Money Market.
• Yahoo Finance on Largest U.S. bank failure ever.
• Smart Money writes about the bailout in One Baby Step at a Time.
• New York Times with Bailout Talks to Resume After Impasse.

Student Loans:
• Freedom Rocks talks about Federal Student Loans.
• FiLife says Have a Student Loan Question? We Have Answers!
• There are Many Different Kinds Of Student Loans! School Work ugh! goes into a few of them.
• Student Loan Online presents Student Loans Terminology.

Business:
• Blogging Stocks interviews Thomas O’Keefe owner of Bizak in so what are startups worth now?

Taxes and Politics:
• The Wall Street Journal gives a break down on how our taxes will fare under Obama, McCain.
• The Tax Lady Blog provides the Latest from the Candidates on 10 Important Economic Issues.

Prosper Gets Mentioned:
• Regina Lewis talks about P2P lending in Got Cash?
• Banktastics posts a video with a brief write up of market and p2p lending at The Burst - Discrimination & Wall Street (Ep. 34).
• Komo News in Two Quick Ways to Get Hard Cash.
• Small Biz Bee writes So You Need Some Money?

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RateLadder is a Prosper lender and has been since July, 2006. He has a passion for p2p lending. He owns RateLadder — My Prosper.com Journey and other P2P Lending Adventures, P2P No Bank the P2P Blog Aggregate, and ProProsper — Professional Tools for Prosper Lenders featuring SQL access to Prosper data.

Welcome to a new edition of the Prosper roundup. There are many stories this week to relate. The first section of this roundup is on the stock exchange and the banking industry. If you have had your head in the sand use these links as a way to dive headfirst into what’s going on in the economy. Also, before you get to the weekend reading links we would like to remind our Pennsylvania readers about this important notice.

Stocks and the Banking Industry:

• Forbes looks at the late-session turn around stocks surge on report of entity for bad debt.
• Wall Street Journal takes a look at the market in stocks soar; banks lead the way.
• Learn how U.S. stocks rally on hopes for a fix from Fed by Market Watch.
• New York Times posts this article on money market funds enter a world of risk. The first part of the article is in relation to the Primary Fund with the disappearance of the Lehman Brothers and Merrill Lynch.
• Business Week also writes on the fluctuating market in stocks soar on regulatory hopes.

Personal Loans:

• The Atlantic.com takes a look at pay day loans in just say no to usury laws.
• Internet-3 asks can you get a collateral loan with bad credit?

Home and Auto Loans:

• Used Auto Financing blogs how to get pre-qualified for an online auto financing loan.
• Market Watch takes a look into how to get a U.S. mortgage without a U.S. credit record.

Small Business Entrepreneur:

• Business About Business writes three ways on how to finance new business equipment.
• Looking for business loan alternatives? Check out this article from the Loan Reference.
• Improving You World offers a few ways on how to get funding for a home business. How did you fund your business?
• Gaebler.com writes tribute for America’s Small Business Development Centers in entrepreneurs: starting and growing a business.
• What are the 6 traits of top leaders? Women Entrepreneur answers in this article.

Prosper Gets Mentioned:

• RateLadder expresses opinion on the PA Lender announcement: Pennsylvania Citizens Are Children in Need of Supervision.
• Mortgage News Daily looks at peer-to-peer lending as a prototype for the future of mortgage lending.
• Personal loans by KGBT4 News looks at peer-to-peer lending as a way to save money on interest.
• WJACTV News looks at online lenders as a way to get cash fast.
• First Coast News looks at Prosper in peer to peer lending.
• Web lenders see opportunity in banks’ woes by Barron’s Electronic Investor is about other ways to get loans.

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RateLadder is a Prosper lender and has been since July, 2006. He has a passion for p2p lending. He owns RateLadder — My Prosper.com Journey and other P2P Lending Adventures, P2P No Bank the P2P Blog Aggregate, and ProProsper — Professional Tools for Prosper Lenders featuring SQL access to Prosper data.

Prosper roundup gets switched around! Easy to read categories are going to be our new way of organizing the roundup.

Categories may change from week to week, but overall the feel of the roundup will be the same.

Business Loans:
• SFGate posts an article this last Sunday on how right now it’s a hard time to get new credit. Article discusses housing loans in depth and briefly touches business and personal.
• Commercial Loans Source lists types of commercial loans and provides a succinct overview for beginners.

Mortgage Loans:
• Business Week says subprime mortgages–good luck getting one!
• The Consumerist blogs 12 confessions of a home mortgage collector is an article containing insider knowledge of the system and could help you out.

Student Loans:
• TheState.com writes this article, student loan availability squeezed, which explains how the nationwide credit crunch is affecting higher education.
• Continuing this point of view is Guampdn.com in student loan options shrinking and offers some excellent advice for those worried about paying this semester’s tuition.
• Check out 25 tips, ideas, resources for paying back student loans at Broke College Grad is a consolidated collection of blog articles for paying student loans in a variety of ways.

Small Business Entrepreneur:
• Tips for small business startup by Wealth, Success, and Women is a nice little starter post. What tips would you add?
• These 7 lies that prevent Your Great Idea from becoming a Real Business by Internet Redux might sound like commonsense, but in reality more people than you know believe in them and never try.

P2P Lending:
• Money Crashers writes a scathing review in Richard Branson Makes It Easier To Borrow Money From Your Family. What are your thoughts on loaning money to friends and family?

Prosper Gets Mentioned:
• The Wall Street Journal Small Business Site lists Prosper in Four Sources of Alternative Funds
• At the Active Rain real estate blog Prosper Marketplace is written as an example of alternative funding a down payment for a mortgage extension.
• At Site Point in 5 ways to fund your web startup for online business funding.
• NBC Action News aired a segment on Peer-to-Peer Lending
• KGBT4 features Prosper in their Show Me the Money Segment: Personal Loans
• Barron’s article feature Web Lenders See Opportunity in Bank’s Woes
• More Prime Borrowers at Prosper Site in American banker (subscription required)

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RateLadder is a Prosper lender and has been since July, 2006. He has a passion for p2p lending. He owns RateLadder — My Prosper.com Journey and other P2P Lending Adventures, P2P No Bank the P2P Blog Aggregate, and ProProsper — Professional Tools for Prosper Lenders featuring SQL access to Prosper data.

Welcome to another roundup here at Prosper. School is in session for many, hurricane season has started, and summer is nearly over with autumn creeping in to take its place. How are you improving your personal finance?

Investing Intelligently blogs a debunking post to “why index investing may not be for you”. Which opinion do you agree with?

CNN Money posts 5 ways to manage a ‘flexible’ income and three tips to quickly fix your income should it not be up to snuff.

Credit problems? Rich Credit Debt Loan gives 6 easy tips on raising your FICO score this week.

I’ve Paid for it Twice Already writes couponing is for more than food. This is very true, and not all coupons are something you take to the register – of course I’m referring to rebates.

In answering a reader question Digerati Life explains 10 reasons why buying penny stocks is nothing but a mistake.

Lazy Man and Money’s guest writer Handyman offers some simple tips for easy and cheap home remodeling.

Speaking on home improvement, Generation X Finance offers up some advice in how to increase the value of your home by 5% to 11% with little effort and little money.

Brip Blap asks what is a career?

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RateLadder is a Prosper lender and has been since July, 2006. He has a passion for p2p lending. He owns RateLadder — My Prosper.com Journey and other P2P Lending Adventures, P2P No Bank the P2P Blog Aggregate, and ProProsper — Professional Tools for Prosper Lenders featuring SQL access to Prosper data.

Keep your eye on the horizon looks like another storm or two is brewing. Be prepared and stay safe as hurricanes are blowing. Well they’re not listed at hurricanes right now, they’re still tropical storms, but damage can still be severe. Check weather updates at www.weather.com.

It’s August and that means going to school. Brip Blap writes three college student finance tips for choosing a college and a major.

Ever feel like Digerati Life and think I want to work smarter, not harder?

Make money on eBay – can you actually do it? Lazy Man and Money looks at one possible scenario.

The Sun’s Financial Diary writes FDIC Problem Banks List Grew to 117 Last Quarter.

CNN Money following on the heels of SFD discusses what the ‘problem bank’ list doesn’t say.

When it comes to taxes Generation X Finance asks who pays more, the rich or the poor?

Money Smart Life has some great tips on how to save money on your honeymoon and still have a blast.

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RateLadder is a Prosper lender and has been since July, 2006. He has a passion for p2p lending. He owns RateLadder — My Prosper.com Journey and other P2P Lending Adventures, P2P No Bank the P2P Blog Aggregate, and ProProsper — Professional Tools for Prosper Lenders featuring SQL access to Prosper data.