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Best of Personal Finance: El Nino is Coming Edition

Posted July 10, 2009 - 16:00 by Andrea Dickson

Personal Finance

Bank of America policy whistleblowers, credit freezes, getting enough sleep, the weather forecast for the next year or so, lowering your credit card balance with the rest of the country (good on ya), and more.

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I Don't Love Capital One - How to Get a Lower APR, or Possibly Not

Posted 2 years ago by Andrea Dickson

Filed Under: Credit Cards

I knew there was a reason that I chose capitalone-bites-the-big-one772 as my log in name for my online credit card account. It's because, well, Capital One bites. I'm a good customer of Capital One; I keep a revolving balance that should make them happy, and I pay my bill religiously.

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Behind the Times - I learn about Keep the Change

Posted 2 years ago by Andrea Dickson

Filed Under: Investment

I tend to ignore most promotions that banks send my way. I use Bank of America for my primary checking account, and they often interrupt my online banking log-in to try to sell me on some kind of promotion, and it’s usually crap.

So it was with Keep the Change – I just assumed that it was another little gimmick that wasn’t worth a second glance, and I would sigh heavily whenever the advertisement prevented me from immediately seeing my account balance when I logged into my online checking account. It wasn’t until a friend told me that she was participating that I started to pay attention.

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