As part of new reforms, the government is debating what downpayment size should be required for a "qualified" residential mortgage. If a mortgage doesn't meet the new standards, the lending bank would have to retain 5% ownership even if selling … [Read the rest]
Super Freakonomics is the follow-up to the 2005 bestseller, Freakonomics by Levitt and Dubner. This review will not be a summary of all the stories inside, although they are indeed entertaining. Given that they compare Santas and prostitutes, … [Read the rest]
If you have a good credit score and the discipline not to get into consumer debt, you can profit from your responsibility by participating in various credit card promos where their ad dollars go into your pocket. There have been some exceptionally … [Read the rest]
Amazon.com is offering $2 of free credit towards MP3 downloads with the code CLOUDMP3. No purchase required. Enter code at this link. It should increase your gift card balance by $2 for music purchases only. You must redeem the code by June 30, … [Read the rest]
Hawaiian Airlines is offering up 500 free miles if you link your Twitter and HawaiianMiles accounts. This will bring you a bit closer to the islands and also resets your miles expiration date (after 18-months of inactivity). While you're at it, … [Read the rest]
The Dow Jones Industrial Average (DJIA) is an antiquated, somewhat-arbitrary, poorly constructed, incomplete indicator that does a subpar job of tracking the actual performance of the U.S. stock market. There, I said it. Every time I see it … [Read the rest]
Rental car agency Hertz is revamping their frequent renter program, and is offering 500 bonus points (enough for a free rental day on a weekend) plus 100 bonus points per day on rentals from 7/1 to 9/30/2011 when you register online. You must be … [Read the rest]
Peer-to-peer lending site Prosper recently received another round of VC money and it appears that they are offering a new iPad 2 promotion to attract enough lenders to match their borrower demand. If you open a new lender account by June 30, 2011 and … [Read the rest]
Per many reports from Reuters and WSJ and more, Capital One is buying online bank ING Direct. After being bailed out by the Dutch government in 2008, parent company ING Groep NV was required to sell the US bank by 2013 as part of their restructuring … [Read the rest]
Daily deal site BuyWithMe is offering 2 movie tickets from Fandango for $12 this week. The city is Houston but you can use them nationwide. This isn't as good as previous deals, but if you're going to watch those summer blockbusters at … [Read the rest]
Morningstar.com helpfully provides two types of performance data for mutual funds: total returns and investor returns. Total returns are what you usually see elsewhere, and assumes that one buys all at the beginning and holds the entire period … [Read the rest]
This is a follow-up on the previously mentioned 50,000 bonus points offer (converts to $625 in travel) for the getting the Chase Sapphire Preferred® Card. Thanks to readers Paolo and AT, they shared a way to get double those points, even if you've … [Read the rest]
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