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Lending Club

Lending Club Halts New Lender Registrations and Referral Program Pending Filing with SEC

by DR

Lending Club today announced that it has “started a process to register, with the appropriate securities authorities, promissory notes that may be offered and sold to lenders through our site in the future.” Thus, it appears that Lending Club wants to create a secondary market for its loans that would allow peer-to-peer lenders who [...]

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Reader Question: Should $15,000 be invested in P2P Lending or in a Better Mortgage?

by DR

A new reader of The Dough Roller sent me an email asking how she should invest $15,000. She initially considered investing in P2P loans with Lending Club or Prosper, which is how she found my site. But now she wonders if she should use the money to refinance her mortgage instead. Here [...]

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Here’s the Real Deal on Dave Ramsey and Debt

by DR

As much good as he does, Dave Ramsey drives me nuts with his views on debt. Dave Ramsey, as he readily admits, did some really stupid things with debt. Leveraged to the hilt on bad real estate deals, he went bust in a way most of us could never imagine. Even as [...]

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Prosper vs. Lending Club SmackDown–Who has the best interest rates?

by DR

Important Update: Prosper has suspended its lender program while it registers debt with the SEC. Fortunately, LendingClub’s lender and borrower programs are both active and offer attractive interest rates and terms.
If you think Prosper and Lending Club set interest rates the same way, think again. In fact, how they set interest rates [...]

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How to buy partial shares of Berkshire Hathaway with ShareBuilder

by DR

As you may know, I’ve decided to invest roughly 50% of the earnings from The Dough Roller in B shares of Berkshire Hathaway. (The other half goes to charity.) I say roughly half goes to the B share because a small portion of the 50% I keep goes to loans on Prosper and [...]

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