Archive for September, 2008
Monday, September 29th, 2008
As everyone already knows, Washington Mutual's operations were bought out by JP Morgan Chase. The move that ultimately helped take down WaMu faster was when panicked depositors withdrew more than $16 billion in a 10 day period. Personally I believe a lot of people who withdrew money were idiots in ...
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Sunday, September 28th, 2008
Lyndsey, a volunteer who works on various lender engagement initiatives for Kiva, contacted me recently to inform me about Kiva being back in the top 5 for the American Express Members Project competition for the $1.5 million dollar grand prize. They moved from the #8 spot to the #4 spot ...
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Sunday, September 28th, 2008
I logged into ING this morning and noticed at the bottom of the screen there was an option to link your ING Direct accounts to your Sharebuilder accounts. All it takes is inputting your username and password.
Now whenever you log into ING Direct you'll see the balances of your Sharebuilder ...
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Sunday, September 28th, 2008
So a woman tried to rob the Roslyn Savings Bank with a threatening note demanding cash or she's open fire. The teller asked the robber if they were serious and apparently they panicked enough to run off. link
Seriously?
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Friday, September 26th, 2008
JPMorgan is acquiring WaMu but the offer for 5% 12 month CDs is still on the main page of WaMu.com. If JPMorgan decides to not honor the rate at some point in the future you're allowed to withdraw your money without penalty.
Minimum to open an online CD is $1,000.
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Friday, September 26th, 2008
10,000 Membership Reward points after first purchase which is equivalent to a $100 gift card.
First year is fee-free. $125 after first year.
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Tuesday, September 23rd, 2008
WaMu upped the rate for their online savings account to 4% APY. This is 1% higher than what ING Direct currently offers.
If you're worried about WaMu failing just keep your under $100,000 and you'll be FDIC insured.
savings account link
I actually don't have a WaMu bank account yet and will consider ...
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Sunday, September 21st, 2008
With the ExxonMobil credit card you can get a 30 cents per gallon gas rebates on Exxon and Mobil Gasoline purchases for the first 60 days and 15 cents per gallon afterwards. Each year you earn 2% back on other purchases up to $10,000 and 1% afterwards.
The 2% cashback on ...
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Saturday, September 20th, 2008
Commerce Bank offers a free coin counting machine that I recently decided to try out. This is opposed to Coinstar machines which typically charge a 9% fee to count your coins.
Commerce Bank prides itself on being a extremely customer service oriented bank. They were open until 8 pm the day ...
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Saturday, September 20th, 2008
Sign up for the Miles by Discover card through mygpsoffer.com and you'll get a Garmin nuvi 200 Portable GPS for free!
My friend did this offer a couple months back and recieved his GPS last week so the offer is for real. There are tons of confirmations around the web about ...
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