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Advancing Consumers' Interests

Richard Cordray | Posted 04.30.2012

Read More: Rainy Day Funds, Checking Account, Consumer Complaints, Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, Checking, Savings Accounts, Mortgage Crisis, Banking, Credit Cards, Money News
Richard Cordray

We have heard story after story of consumers being hit with fees they did not expect and do not understand. We take these complaints very seriously.

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5 Pieces of Banking Wisdom to Ignore

Richard Barrington | Posted 04.24.2012

Read More: Personal Finance, Money, Banking, Savings Accounts, Cds, Debit Cards, Bank Fees, Overdraft Protection, Checking, Credit Cards, Business News
Richard Barrington

There are many useful rules in personal finance that can help you successfully manage your money. But it's also useful to know when those rules can be broken.

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Zach Carter

Debunking The GOP's 'Uncertainty' Economic Argument

HuffingtonPost.com | Zach Carter | Posted 11.13.2011

Read More: Politics, Video, Uncertainty, Wall Street, Economy, Checking, Moebs, Cds, Money Market, Jobs, Gop, Banks, Obama, Republicans, Politics News

WASHINGTON -- With the economy in a slump for nearly four years, corporate executives and conservative politicians have repeatedly invoked "uncertaint...

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Say Goodbye To Traditional Free Checking

AP | PALLAVI GOGOI | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Free Checking, Checking, Personal Banking, Banks, Personal Checks, Bofa, Bank of America, Business News

NEW YORK — Free checking as we know it is ending. The days when you could walk into a bank branch and open an account with no charges and no st...

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Tales Of A Pioneering Big Bank Refugee

Peter G. Miller | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: OurBroker.Com, Charges, Satire, Checking, Credit Union, Move Your Money, Banks, Community, Fees, Big Banks, Savings, Comedy, Comedy News
Peter G. Miller

As banks have gotten bigger and badder there's been an increasing urge to go elsewhere, to send business to community banks and local credit unions, s...

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