Steadfast Finances

 Banking, Online Savings Accounts, Personal Finance Tips         4 comments

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As a young professional who came of age during the Internet boom, I was among the first wave of consumers to adopt the Internet banking meme. At that time, it was no where near mainstream and was generally considered to be another dot com fad.

Fairly quickly, the Internet banks began …

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Have you ever wanted to buy that certain something from the Internet, but hesitated because you were fearful of having your credit card number stolen?
How about that post transaction anxiety you felt after giving away your credit card information over the phone? Are you 100 percent certain the person on …

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If you’re the type to chase high interest savings rates, the first quarter of 2009 has kept you busy.
Nearly all of the major internet banks have slashed their savings account interest rates on a near biweekly basis.
Being somewhat of a rate chaser myself, I noticed all three of my older savings accounts have been substantially …