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Bank-Based Small-Dollar Loans: An Alternative to Payday Loans
A recent pilot program conducted by the FDIC featured loans with terms designed to beat those offered by payday sharks. Hopefully we'll see these loans replicated.
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Survive The Bear Market: 10 Steps To Ride The Downturn
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Best Money Tips: Sleeping Tips You've Never Heard
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An Introduction to High Yield Reward Checking Accounts
Here is a quick introduction to reward checking accounts and how you can take advantage of these high yielding accounts.
8 Surprising Life and Money Lessons from Will Ferrell Movies
Will Ferrell may be an unlikely source of money and life lessons, but his films often turn on key personal finance concepts. Shake and bake!
Best Money Tips: Best Things to Buy in the Spring
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Best Money Tips: How to Start Investing
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Save the Planet: Work at Home
If every person in the U.S. with a telecommuting-compatible job worked at home on Earth Day, the one-day greenhouse gas savings would equate to taking 77,000 cars off the road
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6 Signs You're Not Frugal — You're Cheap!
Believe it or not, there's such a thing as being too frugal. It's called "being a cheapskate."
The 5 Best Bath Mats
Keeping your bathroom floor water free isn't easy, but it can be. Use any of these bath mats and your bathroom will look great and stay dry.
Best Money Tips: How To Win Sweepstakes
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15 Easy, Mouthwatering Slow Cooker Dessert Recipes
Slow cookers do dessert, too? As conveniently and deliciously as they cook everything else. The only downside of these recipes is the wait.
Wise Bread Reloaded: How to Prepare and Enjoy Our Modern, Monstrously Large Chickens
Never heard of the Ross 308 broiler? At nearly 10 pounds, the enormous chicken has taken beef's place at the head of the American table.
Best Money Tips: Ways to Keep Cool Without AC
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8 Surprising Ways Confidence Can Hurt Your Investments
Being confident is good. Being a little too confident with your investments, on the other hand, can mean money troubles.
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5 Interview Questions Every Small Business Owner Should Ask
The interview may be your only chance to get to know a job applicant before you make a hiring decision. Here are five questions to help you.