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The Fed doesn't like to get in a hurry about anything. They've been letting the credit card issuers get away with some really shady things, so it's about time they tightened up. The new rules are...

This is partly finance, but more politics, so I'm asking it over here in the Lounge. Does anybody think that North American is likely to make a consolidated form of currency -- like the Europeans...

I saw a story in the paper reporting that gas use (I think they were talking about California) was down in early 2008 versus what it was in 2007. Is the continued high cost causing you to drive...

I think of gift cards as being pretty much like cash, and they encourage us to think that but some people are losing their money when the stores have problems. I have a friend who had received some...

I read an article in the newspaper about a man who is losing his house because he took out an equity loan in order to buy something else, and then the credit crunch caused his loan rate to go so high...

I think we're already seeing the price of gas, and especially the price of the diesel that the big trucks use, cause rises in everything else. Grocery store items are mostly trucked around the...

All of a sudden I'm seeing ads for stores that want to help you spend your IRS rebate/stimulus money. Safeway here in the Northwest (and probably everywhere else) has an ad that they will give you...

D.C. is a great place to buy a house if you find one you like and can afford. The problem comes in when you need to sell it. If you have to sell when it's again a buyer's market, there could be...

Unfortunately I am mostly using PayPal to "pay" other people money :worried:
Am looking forward to being able to do that transaction in my favor...

Sprint doesn't have blackberry in its plan? I've seen somebody else advertising one of those all inclusive plans -- Verizon maybe?

I agree that farmers market and local groups are a good way to go if you have them near you. We have excellent farmers markets but they don't include those kind of basic things like rice.

I've never actually signed up for one of those services. Do you do it just so you can know your score every second? I guess I'm trying to be more relaxed about something in my life :cool:

Well that sounds pretty reasonable for a design. Not going to help my friend much though -- I think he wants a lingerie ad to carry around. :cheesing:

Surely it can't have happened every summer -- wouldn't we have noticed it before? Maybe they go up a little but this seems like a big jump.

That's right, they always used to say be sure you have enough local money in cash to pay for taxi or whatever you take to get from the airport to where you're staying. I'd forgotten about tips -- so...

Those 529 college savings plans are great -- my sister set them up for her children. Of course a more ordinary CD or savings account would be good if you want to let the child build up money and...

Do you ever just find money on the street? A friend just IM'd me to say he found $5 just lying on the sidewalk -- nobody else around. I told him it must be mine :cool:

I think it's pretty interesting that they started sending them out earlier than the original news said they would. And would really like to know if they hired extra staff to do it.

THis seems like a cleverer version of the original email scams -- where all they did was send out some kind of bizarre or obnoxious email, and waited to see who replied to it -- that way they knew...

A long time ago (when I had more free cash than I have now), I would get foreign currency before I went on a trip. Is it still a good idea to do that, or would you just use credit cards and let them...

I think there are a number of companies, including these credit card ones I guess, who put in their contracts that you have to go to arbitration instead of directly to court. Since they're not...

OK, so I have to ask about a Victoria's Secret card. What kind of picture does it have on it? I have a friend who would love to have one -- he spends a bunch of time looking at their catalogs......

So, Meya, is that one of those things that you always hear -- "just wait till you have kids of your own and see what they do to you"? :cheesing:

I tend to agree with Sophie, that you shouldn't expect to get back money from your family (or close friends). Bringing money issues into a relationship is always a way to mess it up -- try not to...

I guess what they're trying to do is keep the restaurants from buying up huge supplies, as you say, but it seems to me when things like this start they eventually wind up costing us individuals more....