Archive for September, 2007

Downloadable coupons come with sneaky extras

An article has surfaced on SlickDeals forums that describes Coupon.com spyware like practices. It was quite an eye opener for me to learn to what extends Coupon.com goes to limit/track the coupons you print using their Coupon Printer. In addition there is some interesting information about possible privacy issues with the software. Here are some:

Installing […]

Fed Funds Rate affect on Bank Savings Accounts

Jonathan from MyMoneyBlog has touched the topic that has always interested me personally: how Fed Funds Rate affects all these savings accounts.
Banks make money by borrowing and reinvesting funds and I would assume Feds Fund Rate is the benchmark they don’t want to go over when borrowing since this is the rate at which […]

Extreme saving: hide your money from yourself

I will confess, I lied to you when I said I would pass on that ING promotion. I couldn’t resist a good deal and applied. Guess what, my application was turned down because I am ineligible. When I called the support I was told that I already have an account with ING. This came to […]

ING Direct savings account $50 signup bonus

Ever since Mint tipped me to the possibility of earning interest on my checking account I can’t stop thinking about alternatives to Citibank, my primary bank at the moment. I am not ready to jump the ship just yet but offers like this make it very tempting.
This particular promotion is exclusively for New York Times […]

Chase, Mint viability, and web scraping

It is interesting how much attention this small company captured over the past week. Search for mint money management on Google and you get almost 2 million results. I made my own contribution just yesterday where I was questioning the viability of this service. Using web scraping for obtaining financial data is one of the […]




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