Fed up with your "too-big-to-fail" bank? Well, you can always downsize. That's the message of the "Move Your Money" campaign, which urges big-bank customers to switch to community banks. But what's it like to actually make the switch, and could this movement ever register as more than a blip on a big bank's radar? ...

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Another day, another recall. Normally, automobile recalls are not much of a problem. A recall usually involves bringing your car to a dealership, subjecting yourself up to some sales pitches, getting your car fixed, and driving home. Toyota’s recent string of recalls is more complicated because some of the problems do not have solutions yet.If ...

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Start Right Away [caption id="" align="alignright" width="400" caption="Photo: whplibrary.org"][/caption] Saving money is an important aspect of life. It works best when picked up early in life. College years offer the best time to start saving some money. The life ahead states, that we leave our childhood behind and take more responsibility at this time. We can get ...

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‘Jersey Shore’ season two I thought it was over. For weeks, I'd avoided the show, but something told me I had to at least take a peek at "Jersey Shore." I had no idea who my friends were talking about, and thought immediately that interventions were going to be necessary. After I'd watched a few episodes, ...

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The last time I talked about my credit card debt here, one of our community said that he didn’t know the specific numbers of my problem, and it got me thinking that I’ve probably lost sight of one of the main reasons I wanted to be writing here in the first place: to keep myself ...

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