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Secured credit cards: Get beyond these Top 5 myths
Often derided as tools for consumers with horrible credit, secured credit cards can be a great credit-building tool. Here are five myths debunked to help you understand how to use secured credit cards to maximum advantage.
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Five signs Americans are forgetting recession's lessons
Declining savings is one of five signs that American households are forgetting the lessons of the Great Recession:
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Companies we love in 8 industries we hate
A trip to the bank doesn't have to be a nightmare. Here are the customer service winners in eight industries that customers hate, from airlines to cable companies.
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5 great travel rewards credit cards
Summer travel can be cheap with the help of credit card rewards. Here are five great credit card rewards programs to fit your vacationing style.
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Co-op: shopping where you own the place
Co-ops, credit unions, and mutual firms can offer good deals because they have no outside investors to please. Prices may not be as low at a co-op as a wholesale club, but you reap its profits, sometimes in the form of coupons.
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Secured credit cards: Get beyond these Top 5 myths
Often derided as tools for consumers with horrible credit, secured credit cards can be a great credit-building tool. Here are five myths debunked to help you understand how to use secured credit cards to maximum advantage.
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Five signs Americans are forgetting recession's lessons
Declining savings is one of five signs that American households are forgetting the lessons of the Great Recession:
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Companies we love in 8 industries we hate
A trip to the bank doesn't have to be a nightmare. Here are the customer service winners in eight industries that customers hate, from airlines to cable companies.
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5 great travel rewards credit cards
Summer travel can be cheap with the help of credit card rewards. Here are five great credit card rewards programs to fit your vacationing style.
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The Simple Dollar Buried in debt? How a credit union can help.
A credit union is a very useful tool for someone who is trying to get their debt load under control. Don’t neglect to use it.
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Change Agent Cooperative businesses provide a new-old model for job growth
Co-ops worldwide represent much more than hippie grocery stores: They're a fast-growing way to do business better in fields from finance to agriculture to industry.
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Checking fees too high? Customers eye credit unions.
Checking fees, other charges caused credit unions to gain double the normal number of customers. Mulling more hikes in checking fees, big banks could lose more customers, advocates say.
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Opinion Why credit unions and small businesses are beating out big banks
Community-based capitalism offers an exciting new model for American prosperity and a way out of the current economic morass. Constructive Capitalism is shareable, local, and sustainable. Examples of its impact abound.
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Occupy Wall Street? No, divest from it.
A growing bank divestment movement is pushing universities to move their money from big banks to small local financial institutions. So far, bank divestment successes are few and far between.
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The New Economy Why banks shun 30 million Americans
A quarter of US households have few or no ties to the banking system, which hurts their financial future. Financial reform has made it even harder for banks to serve them.
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Debit cards: Chase, Wells Fargo dropping fees
Debit cards' fees so unpopular in pilot programs that Chase, Wells Fargo will eliminate them. Bank of America likely to offer ways to avoid fees on its debit cards.
10/29/2011 12:42 pm -
Opinion Take your money and run
Bank of America's $5 per month debit card fee is just the tip of the iceberg. Big banks are starting to charge fees for what used to be basic services. In protest, switch to a community bank or credit union. It's more convenient than camping out with the Occupy Wall Street protesters.
10/21/2011 11:04 am -
Checking account fees: too expensive for poor?
Checking account fees at big banks rising to $10 or more per month. Without large balances or computer access to eliminate checking account fees, poor could move to smaller institutions or out of banking system altogether.
09/27/2011 11:42 am -
Debit card fees: Senate discusses limiting swipe costs to stores
Debit card fees are the topic of debate in the Senate on Wednesday. Some lawmakers oppose a proposal from the Federal Reserve to lower the debit card fees that stores must pay when a card is swiped.
06/08/2011 01:10 pm -
The Simple Dollar 401(k): Not eligible yet? Open an IRA.
401(k) eligibility doesn't kick in for 11 months. Open a Roth IRA in the meantime. See question No. 6 in the reader mailbag.
04/25/2011 03:38 pm -
Saving Money No free checking accounts at your bank? Try this.
Many banks weigh eliminating free checking accounts. But more than a third of US credit unions expect to keep free checking accounts.
02/26/2011 01:54 pm -
Happy Valentine's Day! Let's balance the checkbook.
Don't let money ruin your Valentine's Day. Couples find ways to talk about money without ruining the romance.
02/14/2011 12:43 pm -
The New Economy Refinancing auto loans: Did you know you could?
Refinancing auto loans is not only possible, it's easier and cheaper than mortgage refinancing.
10/11/2010 12:21 pm -
The New Economy NCSECU: Credit union helps customers avoid overdraft fees
North Carolina State Employees' Credit Union (NCSECU) offers a program that helps customers avoid overdraft fees. Can such innovations lure customers away from big banks?
09/08/2010 05:35 pm -
Letters to the Editor
Readers write about why Congress needs to bail out the arts, whether local banks are better than larger banks, and Obama's approach to the challenges facing the US and the world.
02/12/2009 12:00 am -
Wall Street bailout: a win for Main Street?
The TARP covers financial institutions, but average Americans are still waiting for help.
10/27/2008 01:00 am -
Microloans for the Gulf Coast?
Three years after Katrina, one-quarter of New Orleans small businesses are still closed.
10/07/2008 01:00 am
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