As you might have heard, the Federal Economic Stimulus Package is coming out early for those people receiving one. Everyone that has filed taxes that is eligible should be starting to receive their checks (starting this week for electronic deposit, and next week for paper checks). That means the average individual will get a [...]

Many of my readers are probably wondering if this is a late April Fools joke, but it’s not. I do think credit cards are good for some things, and one of the best things I’ve found to use them for is automatically paying bills with.
More and more credit cards are allowing you to [...]

This week Sam’s Club (Wal-Mart) and Costco both announced that they were going to limit the amount of rice that people can buy at one time. With prices going up world-wide by around 75%, these measures seem prudent. A statement from a Sam’s Club spokesperson describes their restrictions.
The store will limit customers to four [...]

Wandering over at the Consumerist today, there’s an article on Certigy deciding if K-Mart will accept your check.
Now, while the article itself was pretty interesting, the TRUELY interesting part was the discussion in the comments about writing checks altogether. Here’s a small selection of some of the more interesting comments I found.
I’m [...]

When we last left Joe, he was defending against the Ninja Bills. Today’s episode finds Joe thinking about the mortgage crisis, the mass of failing banks, and the continuing write-down of billions of dollars of loss by corporations across Wall Street.
This can only be the work of the elusive Collateralized Debt Obligations (CDOs)!! [...]