TweetAs a part of my savings goals, I was trying to figure out the very best place to put the emergency savings fund that I have been building up. The options included: 1. Contributing more and more money to my Capital One 360 (formerly ING DIrect) account where I receive a very good interest rate [...]

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TweetAcross many of the travel blogs the last week there has been a lot of chatter over award chart devaluation. Of particular concern has been the increase in costs for redemptions at hotels, with all of the major programs upping their requirements over the last two weeks. Just about every blog, from Thepointsguy.com to ViewFromtheWing.com, [...]

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TweetThe latest firestorm in Congress’ budgetary wars is the sequester, a series of across the board automatic spending cuts to Federal programs totaling $1.2 trillion over 10 years. The sequester will particularly affect military spending, and damage every state in the union. This is a serious problem, and designed to impose European style austerity over [...]

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