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What To Do When Your Bank Is Merging

by Flexo

Marketwatch has published an interesting article with advice for customers whose banks are going through a merger. I’m no stranger to this phenomenon. When I was 16, I had my first bank account with New Jersey National Bank. It was sooner or later bought by or merged with CoreStates (Dec. 6, 1996), then First Union ... Continue reading this article…

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New $10 Bill Design Coming

by Flexo

There’s a new design coming for the $10 bill. There will be an announcement later this week in which the Department of the Treasury will release the new look. I like the idea of varying the designs on currency.

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Consensus View is Better Than Experts?

by Flexo

In one point of view, “the masses” are wrong about financial issues (Part One and Part Two). On the other hand, some believe that the general populace on the whole outsmarts even the experts. That’s the basis of the book The Wisdom of Crowds by James Suroweicki. To prove his points in his book, he ... Continue reading this article…

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Foreign Exchange Trading

by Flexo

An article in the Wall Street Journal, Currency Markets Draw Speculation, Fraud [free], talks about day trading in the foreign exchange market. The story focuses on Marc Coppola, one of my favorite Q104.3 DJs, who apparently also dabbles in trading foreign currency. To summarize, this type of trading has grown in popularity despite its risk. ... Continue reading this article…

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More From Around The Web

by Flexo

This is a weblog, so here is another log of some items from the web: If SAHMs (stay-at-home moms) received a salary for their work, they’d earn $131,471 according to Salary.com. That figure was determined by using average salaries for the jobs that SAHMs do, such as cook, day care, and CEO, including overtime. For ... Continue reading this article…

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Paper Currency Photographs

by Flexo

Have a lot of time on your hands? Spend it perusing through the image gallery of paper currency. Many different countries are represented by photographs or scans of various bank notes. I don’t suggest printing any of the images on glossy paper to take with you for use when traveling to the represented location.

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Unimaginable Material Wealth and Worshipping the Idle

by Flexo

Here is an article that discusses American materialism. The comments that follow the article are just as interesting. If guilt and materialism are two sides of a single very American coin, it’s a coin that has achieved new currency in recent years, as hand-wringing and McMansions vie for our souls like the angels and devils ... Continue reading this article…

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