Archive for the ‘Banking’ Category
Wednesday, March 5th, 2008
A few years ago I was in a doctor's office and one of the assistants said, in earshot of everyone in the office, "Is your social security number 123-45-6789?" (No, that's not my real social security number.) My response: "Gee, could you say that a little louder?" ...
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Thursday, February 21st, 2008
Every area of specialization has its own vocabulary and its own subtleties in word choice. Here are seven pairs of money terms that seem interchangeable at first glance, but are actually slightly different:
APR vs. APY. These abbreviations are familiar ones from banks and credit card issuers. Annual ...
Posted in Banking, Investing, Making Money | 19 Comments »
Sunday, December 23rd, 2007
There are plenty of people who don't have and don't like credit cards -- for very good reasons -- but I love my credit card. (It's a Chase PerfectCard™ Visa® but now Chase offers the Chase PerfectCard™ MasterCard® instead.) This might seem strange, considering I manage a fairly long-running blog ...
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Thursday, December 20th, 2007
Banks and credit unions sometimes get unusual deposits. A depositor might get a gift from an older relative that has a lot of older coins lying around, or someone will clean out their attic and start to earn interest on money that was hidden away for decades in an old ...
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