Here’s our weekly roundup of the best personal finance news. Inside: lessons from 2008, good recession news, FICO changes, smart insurance moves, and saving while eating out.
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Now Is The Time To Lock In Interest Rates With CDs
By 12.29.08
If you’re a saver, the Fed flipped you the bird this week. They dropped interest rates and introduced “quantitative easing,” two things that will make interest rates plummet. Here’s how you can protect yourself.
Personal Finance Roundup
By 12.26.08
Here’s our weekly roundup of the best personal finance news. Inside: 2009 work resolutions, job search tips, avoiding Ponzi schemes, achieving financial success, and unusual home threats.
Cars: Is It Worth It To Buy American?
By 12.24.08
Should consumers snap up some of the best deals ever on American-made cars, or is there no price low enough to encourage buying from a business so close to ending it all?
Suicide: Hedge Fund Manager Who Invested $1.4 Billion In Madoff Scheme Found Dead
By 12.24.08
A hedge fund manager, Rene-Thierry Magon de la Villehuchet, who invested $1.4 billion in Madoff’s $50billion Ponzi scheme was found dead by apparent, movie-style, suicide.
Jim Cramer's Advice Slightly Worse Than A Coin Toss?
By 12.23.08
In a not-so-shocking analysis of one of the most-watched TV investment advisers, author Eric Tyson argues that Jim Cramer’s actual stock-picking performance doesn’t match the strength of his bellowing.
49 Banks That Refund All ATM Fees
By 12.22.08
Why pay people for your own money? Via FatWallet, here’s a big daddy list of all the banks that refund your ATM fees, regardless of who owns the ATM.
Easy Guide To California Unemployment Benefits
By 12.22.08
In California? Unemployed? The Screen Actors Guild guide to California Unemployment benefits is easier to use than CA’s hard to navigate unemployment site, and the advice is general enough to work even for non-thespians. [SAG]
AMEX Lowers Your Credit Limit If You Shop Where Deadbeats Shop
By 12.22.08
AMEX is now cutting people’s credit limits for shopping at the wrong store.
Mint Launches iPhone App
By 12.22.08
The popular personal-finance dashboard site Mint.com launched a free iPhone app. Now you can enjoy the ease and power of Mint anywhere your $99$197 Walmart phone goes. Screenshots inside…
Pump Up Your Savings With High-Yield Online Savings Accounts
By 12.21.08
Are you earning at least 4% in your savings account? If NO, do yourself a favor: Open a high-yield online savings account and start adding some serious muscle mass to your savings. Here’s the skinny:
Credit Suisse Top Execs Get Toxic Debt As Christmas Bonus
By 12.18.08
Instead of canceling bonuses for top execs this year, Credit Suisse instead will pay them with the very toxic debt that’s thrown the world into an economic crisis. Yes, Virginia, there is a Revenge Claus.
Personal Finance Roundup
By 12.18.08
Our weekly roundup of the best personal finance news. Inside: Good charity-dar, scam detection, snow-removal tactics, rebuild your 401k, and warnings about store credit-cards.
TurboTax Price Hike Reversed After Online Outcry
By 12.17.08
Intuit will rescind the controversial new $9.95 fee for each additional printed return, in response to angry customers online who, among other things, slammed TurboTax’s Amazon rating to one star. [Press Release] (Thanks Craig!)
HELOC Cuts, The Hows And Whys
By 12.17.08
Did your Home Equity Line of Credit (HELOC) suddenly trail off in the forest recently? Here’s some straight-talk on why, and what, if anything, you can do about it. [Examiner.com] (Photo: Getty)
The 25 Failed Banks Of 2008
By 12.16.08
You can click through CNBC’s stupid click-inflating slideshow of the 25 failed banks of 2008, or just skim the handy rundown inside. It was a bad year for banks you’ve never heard of.
What's Your FICO?
By 12.16.08
FICO: I’ll show you mine if you show me yours. Take our poll and see how you measure up.
5 Last-Minute Ways To Reduce Your 2008 Taxes
By 12.15.08
USAA Mag has 5 good ideas for getting in good shape for tax season before the closing bell rings on 2008:
