Checking Accounts That Pay Decent Interest
High-yield checking accounts might be as rare as Sasquatch these days, but that doesn't mean they don't exist. An annual survey from Bankrate.com, ...
High-yield checking accounts might be as rare as Sasquatch these days, but that doesn't mean they don't exist. An annual survey from Bankrate.com, ...
Trisha Ocona Francis | Posted 04.10.2012
In this tough economic market everyone wants to save money, especially home sellers. A home seller may want to consider or even actually venture into ...
AP | JULIE PACE | Posted 05.23.2012
WASHINGTON — Passing over better-known candidates, President Barack Obama on Friday nominated global health expert and Dartmouth College Preside...
The Huffington Post | Arin Greenwood | Posted 12.08.2011
WASHINGTON -- Blond Bandit, meet Spider-Man. Patch reports that the Prince George's County Police Department is looking for an armed man they suspe...
HuffingtonPost.com | Catherine New | Posted 11.22.2011
Under pressure from regulators and lawyers, nearly all banks have stopped the predatory practice of reordering debit-card purchases to gouge customers...
Richard Barrington | Posted 01.02.2012
According to SNL Financial, JP Morgan has just beaten out Bank of America as the largest U.S. bank in terms of assets. That means Bank of America's strategy is working out just as they planned.
Jon Stein | Posted 12.28.2011
As consumers of financial services products, start to demand that your bank, investment advisor and brokerage join this movement. If they aren't willing to publicly declare what you deserve, you deserve a better company.
Ellen Cannon | Posted 12.03.2011
Some banks have "switch kits" online to make moving your checking or savings account to their bank a simple process. But if you want to take your business to a bank that doesn't have a kit, the task is still not too difficult.
Gemma Godfrey | Posted 10.14.2011
Over the last few days we have seen a tremendous amount of volatility in the markets, epitomizing the lack of clarity with which many investors have struggled.
Natalie Pace | Posted 10.04.2011
"The good news is that the market is recovering. The bad news is that the recovery is very sluggish."
Natalie Pace | Posted 09.15.2011
I received a call from a woman who had a tragic event in her life, which completely changed her income status overnight. Her husband passed away unex...
Bloomberg | Simon Johnson | Posted 09.17.2011
There are three types of contagion in a financial crisis, when the potential collapse of a firm, bank or country threatens to spiral out of control. T...
Natalie Pace | Posted 08.29.2011
Some couples stay together for love, and others stay together for the kids. But today, with unemployment at 9.1% and real estate prices continuing to...
Natalie Pace | Posted 08.27.2011
If you are one of those seriously delinquent homeowners, or one who is draining your nest egg or tapping home equity to make the mortgage payments, is there a way to hang on long enough?
AP | ALEX KENNEDY | Posted 08.20.2011
SINGAPORE — A quarter-century after the creation of ".com," the agency that assigns Internet addresses is loosening its rules and allowing suffi...
AP | Posted 11.15.2011
LUCKNOW, India -- It was an all you can eat buffet at the bank. An army of termites munched through 10 million rupees ($222,000) in currency notes st...
Jerry Zezima | Posted 06.19.2011
Ever since my wife and I were rejected for a home refinancing loan by our bank, which actually owns the house but kindly allows us to pay the mortgag...
Scott Baker | Posted 06.04.2011
Would banking on the poor be any more risky than banking on the money-leveraging banks that have already failed and had to be bailed out -- for trillions?
The Media Consortium | Posted 05.25.2011
By Lindsay Beyerstein, Media Consortium blogger About 100,000 people gathered in Madison, Wisconsin to protest Gov. Scott Walker's new anti-collective...
Reuters | Posted 05.25.2011
ST. CLOUD, Minnesota (Reuters) - The Federal Reserve Bank should continue to flood the economy with cheap money to fight high unemployment, but poli...
Jerry Zezima | Posted 05.25.2011
Jamie Dimon President and CEO JPMorgan Chase Dear Mr. Dimon: I'm Jerry Zezima. The name probably doesn't mean much to you (it doesn't mean much to ...
Reggie Middleton | Posted 05.25.2011
The day after I posted “As JP Morgan & Other Banks Legal Costs Spike, Many Should Ask If It Was Not Obvious Years Ago That This Industry...
Natalie Pace | Posted 05.25.2011
Dear Natalie, I recently divorced and without the extra income of my spouse, I'm drowning in credit card debt.
The Media Consortium | Posted 05.25.2011
Weekly Audit: Tax Cuts for the Rich ExtendedBy Lindsay Beyerstein, Media Consortium Blogger Congressional Republicans and the White House struck an ...
Jerry Zezima | Posted 05.25.2011
I was born more than three weeks past my due date and haven't been on time for anything since. In fact, I have such a reputation for tardiness that people have said I will be late to my own funeral, which is fine with me because I am in no big hurry to get there.
The Huffington Post | Catherine New | Posted 05.23.2012