There are many things that I hate paying for in life, but bank fees are definitely in my top three for most hated expenses. When you deposit your money into a commercial bank, you are already doing them a favor, because that increases their ability to loan more money to other customers and make [...]

There are a great deal of people who are paying private mortgage insurance premiums every month that don’t need to be paying them anymore. The market value of real estate has definitely gone down the past two years, but many of you still have 20% or more equity in your home, which qualifies you [...]

Many other bloggers have written about how to set up sub-savings accounts with ING Direct’s Orange savings account, so I won’t go into a huge tutorial about how to do it. Recently, I decided it would be a good idea for us to start categorizing our short-term savings. Lately, we have simply thrown [...]

I don’t know what to tell you. Even Warren Buffet has lost confidence in our economy. Much of the country is not paying attention to the fact that we are 10 percentage points away from nationalizing a bank, the government pledging about $1.5 trillion dollars in 6 weeks, and the largest insurance company [...]

I am a big proponent of online high-yield sa vings accounts, because they offer much better savings rates than most traditional savings accounts, and they are a little harder to access. You might think ease of access is a good thing, but it’s not a good thing if it’s too easy to tap into [...]

I just read this article on CNN Money, and it made me a little worried.
We have our primary checking account with Bank of America, but I am about ready to close the account and switch to a credit union. I have kept our checking account with Bank of America for two reasons. [...]

Yesterday, President Obama announced that he would limit CEO compensation of private corporations that received bailout money from the federal government. The moment that a private company receives government money, they are taking taxpayer’s money. The government doesn’t have their own money. They have our money. So, Obama and many Ameriicans [...]

For those of you who own a house with a Citi mortgage, you might be interested in this announcement made by Citi Group to help homeowners avoid foreclosure.
Citi Group will reach out to a group of 500,000 homeowners to help them stay current on their mortgages, and it could result in a $20 [...]

One of the biggest changes you will see from the fallout of the Wall Street meltdown is banks severely tightening up on their lending practices. Not only will you have a harder time getting a home loan, but you’ll have a much harder time getting a car loan, line of credit, and home equity [...]

You know that the economy is on shaky ground when the hottest topic in personal finance is making sure your bank deposits are insured. Many of us never think about what would happen to our money if our bank closed its doors. Almost all traditional commercial banks insured their deposit accounts up to [...]