Archive for May, 2008
Thursday, May 8th, 2008
If you have multiple credit cards and you are carrying unpaid balances on them, using a balance transfer has probably crossed your mind. More than likely, you have received offers for pre-approved balance transfers in your own mailbox and they sound like a great deal. If you read the ads, ...
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Monday, May 5th, 2008
For the last 2 or 3 months, we have been bombarded with talk about the economic stimulus package (i.e. tax rebates). Since the legislation was passed to actually fund the rebates, the economy has gotten significantly worse. Finally, the money is actually rolling into bank accounts and it seems that ...
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Thursday, May 1st, 2008
If you are one of the millions of shoppers that enter Target (or Wal Mart, Dollar General, etc.) for milk and trash bags and leave $75-$100 later, you are a victim of "impulse" marketing. In other words, lots of people get paid to think about where to put things and ...
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