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Sallie Mae Offering High-Interest CDs
Submitted by CA Hagy  (bestcashcow.com)

Sallie Mae is one of the newest entrants into the online banking industry. What can you expect from their online savings accounts and CDs?

Article | Mar 8, 2010 | Views: 97 | Comments: 0
Tags: cd rates, online cd rates, sallie mae online banking, online banking companies

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How Michael Burry Bet Big Against the Housing Market and Wall Street and Won
Submitted by Sam Cass  (bestcashcow.com)

In 2004, while the housing market was going strong and Wall Street was churning out mortgage backed securities, a former Dr. and now hedge fund manager named Michael Burry began to take big bets...

Article | Mar 3, 2010 | Views: 640 | Comments: 0

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Malcolm Gladwell and your Personal Finances
Submitted by Sean Riskowitz  (bestcashcow.com)

Malcolm Gladwell's book The Tipping Point is a popular read at the moment, gracing many of the world's best seller lists. What exactly is Gladwell talking about and what is there to learn from a...

Article | Feb 19, 2010 | Views: 325 | Comments: 1
Tags: blink, taleb, gladwell, kiyosaki, pinker, tipping point, outliers

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ZimpleMoney Review: Peer-to-Peer Lending For People You Know
Submitted by StephenDraper  (www.americanbankingnews.com)

Peer-to-peer lending sites such as Prosper Marketplace and Lending Club have received much of the spotlight when it comes to innovative financial products during the last couple of years, but...

Article | Jan 29, 2010 | Views: 115 | Comments: 0 
Tags: peer to peer lending

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How quickly we forget: Rush is on to chase yields
Submitted by Sam Cass  (pacific.bizjournals.com)

Many investors are taking on more risk than they would like to try and chase yield. But as we've seen over the last year, many high yielding investments are risky and can go south.

Article | Dec 25, 2009 | Views: 60 | Comments: 0 
Tags: yield, investments, neil rose

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Wells Fargo to Buy Back $1.3 Billion in Auction Rate Security Debt
Submitted by Sam Cass  (bestcashcow.com)

The North American Securities Administrators Association (NASAA) announced today a settlement with Wells Fargo in which the bank agreed to reimburse $1.3 billion related to the sale of auction rate...

Article | Nov 18, 2009 | Views: 125 | Comments: 0
Tags: auction rate securities, ars

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Successful Investing-Not Magic
Submitted by StephenDraper  (frugaldad.com)

The past year and a half has been rough for investors, although many investors have grown tired for the financial advisers and have become DIY investors, others who have lost money are too...

Article | Oct 13, 2009 | Views: 102 | Comments: 0 
Tags: investment

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Analysis of Oil, Gold, Stock, and Deposit Returns Shows Capital Preservation is Key Strategy
Submitted by Sol Nasisi  (bestcashcow.com)

The graph below shows what the return on this strategy would look like. I was a bit surprised at just how well it did. Clearly, preserving capital, even when it is stashed in unsexy, lower yielding...

Article | Oct 11, 2009 | Views: 485 | Comments: 0

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Wall Street Pursues Profit in Bundles of Life Insurance
Submitted by ktexas  (www.nytimes.com)

After the mortgage business imploded last year, Wall Street investment banks began searching for another big idea to make money. They think they may have found one, life-insurance securitizations....

Article | Sep 5, 2009 | Views: 150 | Comments: 0 
Tags: bonds, insurance, life insurance, risk, securities, investment, insurance industry, securitization, life settlements

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My Cash for Clunkers Experience- Toyota Prius Included
Submitted by Sam Cass  (bestcashcow.com)

I bought a car this weekend using the cash for clunkers program. I got $4,500 off a new car. That's not bad. It will take an awful lot of cash in a 2.5% APY savings account to equal that amount....

Article | Aug 24, 2009 | Views: 229 | Comments: 1
Tags: cash for clunkers, toyota prius review

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$50 TradeKing Bonus
Submitted by sagitarius84  (www.bloggingbanks.com)

TradeKing , which is one of the best online discount brokers, just sent me an email telling me about a promotion where if you refer a friend to TradeKing, both of you get $50. This is as part of...

Article | Aug 13, 2009 | Views: 156 | Comments: 0 
Tags: bonus, brokerage, tradeking

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TD Ameritrade Agrees to Reimburse Auction Rate Security Customers
Submitted by Sam Cass  (bestcashcow.com)

Think the auction rate security saga is over? Not. Today, TD Ameritrade agreed to pay $465 million to its customers to reimburse them for losses taken in the ARS default mess.

Article | Jul 20, 2009 | Views: 173 | Comments: 0
Tags: ars, auction rate security, td waterhouse

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As Prosper Gets The Green Light, A Comeback For Peer-to-Peer Lenders?
Submitted by ktexas  (blogs.wsj.com)

As banks clamp down on consumers' ability to get credit, alternative credit sources could be getting a boost. On Friday, the Securities and Exchange Commission gave its blessing for Prosper.com...

Article | Jul 14, 2009 | Views: 170 | Comments: 0 
Tags: lending, prosper, investments, credit, investing, personal finance, sec, loans, securities, peer to peer lending

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What will be the lasting impact of Madoff?
Submitted by JRodgers  (www.ft.com)

This article in the FT suggests that the Madoff ponzi scheme is going to have a lasting impact on the financial crisis as it undermined the core element of trust that is supposed to be pervasive.

Article | Jun 24, 2009 | Views: 63 | Comments: 0 
Tags: hedge funds, bernard madoff

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SEC Proposes Rules to Prevent Losses with Money Market Funds
Submitted by Sam Cass  (bestcashcow.com)

The Securities and Exchange Commission has proposed a series of rulings that it says will reduce the change of losses for money market fund investors. The problem is that these rulings will also...

Article | Jun 24, 2009 | Views: 111 | Comments: 0
Tags: money market funds, money funds, secruties exchange commission



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