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Goodbye Bank of America, Hello USAA
If the title wasn’t exactly clear, I’m changing my banks. This post is actually quite a bit overdue. I had been gradually doing it for a couple of years now. I would have written about it earlier, but I didn’t realize it until recently. That’s how gradual the change has been. It’s not that Bank [...]
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Lehman Bankruptcy, Bank of America/Merrill Lynch: What Can We Learn Here?
I try to take a couple of weeks of vacation outside of America and Wall Street explodes. Lehman is filing for bankruptcy. Bank of America is buying Merrill Lynch. I don’t even need to get into American Insurance Group losing a third of value. It will teach me to get away from it all in [...]
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Apologies to SmartyPig
On Friday I went a little off the handle reviewing SmartyPig’s registration process. I got frustrated by the many security steps that I had to take before finally getting locked out because my information didn’t match the information in Equifax/SmartyPig’s database. What I should have said is that many online banking security systems are not [...]
