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Are You Making Important Financial Resolutions for 2012?
Here's a question on everyone's mind: After several tough years, will the economic picture improve in 2012? Things can improve for your personal finances—and your family's—if you adopt three powerful resolutions for this new year.
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Thinking of Using a Prepaid Debit Card?
Prepaid debit cards are being touted as a way to manage your money and stay out of debt. With a prepaid debit card, you can only spend the amount of money that is on the card. But that's good, isn't it? Maybe. These cards can be more expensive than you think. These cards may be useful for travel or providing funds for a college student. Some people use them to help them budget.
Gen Y with Will
Want to Turn Six Bucks Into a Million?
A little discipline and the magic of compound interest can turn 6 bucks a day into one million three hundred thousand dollars (that's $1,300,000!)—and get this; you only have to kick in $40,000 total to make that million three! It works like this.
Who's Fighting For You?
Learn right here about consumer groups that tackle consumer issues for you. Each month, we'll feature a different group.
This month's featured consumer group:
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Campaign Money
The purpose of campaignmoney.com, a non-partisan web site, is to make available in the easiest way possible the names of financial donors to federal political campaigns. These records are a matter of public record provided by the Federal Election Commission. There is no charge for perusing the lists on campaignmoney.com.
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- Is Your Whole Life Going on View on Facebook?
- Bank Transfer Day: The Start of Something Great
- Facebook's Ticker Broadcasts Everything You Do
- Little-Known Firms Tracking Data Used in Credit Scores
- Thinking about donating to disaster victims? The Avoid Charity Fraud website from the FTC can help.
- Resisting the Online Tracking Programs
- Center For Responsible Lending has new Consumer Aid, Signs of Predatory Lending.
- Facebook Fraud: Massive Scam Targets Social Networks
- Getting constant phone calls, but only dead air or recordings when you answer?
- Worried about FaceBook and your privacy, or your kids' privacy?
- Top 10 money myths held by teens and how to change them...