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Current Bank & Broker Promotion Bonuses
If you are looking for a little incentive to open a bank or brokerage account, there are a few promotions currently running which will give you as much as $50 bonus for a single new account. Check them out. Maybe there’s something you need
TradeKing $50 bonus for a new account: Open an account [...]
Chase Freedom Card $50 Bonus after First Purchase
The deal isn’t as good as what the card used to offer, but is still quite decent, if you are shopping for a new credit card that can actually becomes your everyday card.
Chase Freedom Card is having a promotion which will give new cardholder $50 bonus after the first purchase. I got the card back [...]
Current Bank & Broker Promotion Bonuses
If you are looking for a little incentive to open a bank or brokerage account, there are a few promotions currently running which will give you as much as $50 bonus for a single new account. Check them out. Maybe there’s something you need
TradeKing $50 bonus for a new account: Open an account [...]
Learn More About Lending Club Credit Rating and Collection Process
I have been using Lending Club as an alternative investment vehicle for more than half a year now. At beginning, I could only invest in LC loans through their note trading platform because of the residency restrictions. Then since last month, I began to invest directly with Lending Club after moving from NJ to VA.
Currently, [...]
Quizzle Offers Free Credit Score and Report
I have been using Credit Karma to get free credit score for quite some time now. What I like about Credit Karma is the I can update my score as many times as I want, though the score is unlikely to change if the update interval is too short. While Credit Karma is a nice [...]
Capital One Online Savings Account $50 Bonus
Capital One Direct is offering $25 bonus for its Online Savings Account and Money Market Account.
I opened a Capital One Savings Account last year when the rate was much higher and much attractive than the current rate of 1.60% APY. To give you an idea of where Capital One is in terms of rate, take [...]
Citi PremierPass Card 1,500 ThankYou Points Promotion
Citi PremierPass Card, one of the best travel reward credit cards, is running a promotion to celebrate the 5th anniversary of the introduction of the card (I had the PremierPass for nearly 3 years).
From now till December 31, 2009, card members can earn up to 1,500 ThankYou points by simply using the card to make [...]
September 2009 Score Card — Part I: Net Worth
Another solid month is in the books.
September didn’t turn out to be the month of market sell-off as I heard from some predictions when the month began. To the contrary, September was a good month for stock investors with all major indices finishing the month in positive territories: The Dow gained 2.2% for the month, [...]
Weekend Linkage – October 4, 2009
We were quite happy with the apartment we rent until last week when the neighbor upstairs started to make this huge noise, some time it didn’t stop until 1:00 in the morning. Last Wednesday, when I worked from home, the pounding noise every few minutes almost drove me crazy. So I went upstairs to see [...]
September 2009 Unemployment Rate at 9.8% – Chart of the Day
Despite signs that the economy has started to recover, U.S. employers continued to cut workers.
In the latest employment report released this morning, the Labor Department said nonfarm payroll shrank by another 263,000 in September, pushing the monthly unemployment rate to 9.8%, the highest level since June 1983.
In September, the employment in construction fell 63,000 while [...]
How We Saved Money when Moving
Early last month, we moved from New Jersey to Virginia due to job changes. It was by far the longest relocation we had and a very stressful event because we basically had to deal with everything ourselves, from searching a new place in VA to the eventual 250-mile move. When all was done, we found [...]
