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Google has just debuted a new form of advertising called AdWords Comparison Ads — a special kind of ad that will prompt users to view a list of sponsored products in a structured format. To get started, Google is running the ads for queries related to the mortgage market, though it has plans to eventually [...]
Archive for October, 2009
Google Tackles Mortgage Market With New Comparison Ads
Posted by lorenzo on October 29th, 2009
Posted in Mortgage 
Tags: Comparison Shopping, Google, Interest Rates, Real Estate, Saving Money 
No Comments »Latest bank fee is for paying off credit card on time every month
Posted by lorenzo on October 22nd, 2009
ou floss regularly, yield to oncoming traffic and use your credit cards judiciously, dutifully paying off your balance every month.
You may believe that your exemplary behavior shields you from unexpected credit card fees. Sadly, that is no longer the case.
Starting next year, Bank of America will charge a small number of customers an [...]
Like it or not, here comes more stimulus
Posted by lorenzo on October 22nd, 2009
There’s a push to extend some expiring provisions from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act. But it will be done in bits and pieces.
You won’t see it all in one neat package. And you won’t hear the White House call it stimulus.
But there’s a good chance lawmakers will decide to extend some of [...]
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Posted by lorenzo on October 17th, 2009
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Top-paying jobs in the U.S.
Posted by lorenzo on October 13th, 2009
Anesthesiologists take home a median $292,000 salary annually. What other great careers from Money and PayScale.com’s list of Best Jobs in America offer big paychecks?
Read more at: CNN Money
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Failures of Small Banks Grow, Straining F.D.I.C.
Posted by lorenzo on October 12th, 2009
A year after Washington rescued the banks considered too big to fail, the ones deemed too small to save are approaching a grim milestone: the 100th bank failure of 2009.
In what has become a ritual, the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation has swooped down on a handful of troubled lenders almost every Friday, seizing 98 since [...]
Posted in News Tags: F.D.I.C., Financial Crisis, Goldman Sachs, T.A.R.P., Too big to fail No Comments »Steep Losses Pose Crisis for Pensions
Posted by lorenzo on October 11th, 2009
Two Bad Choices for Funds: Cut Benefits Or Take Greater Risks to Rebuild Assets
The financial crisis has blown a hole in the rosy forecasts of pension funds that cover teachers, police officers and other government employees, casting into doubt as never before whether these public systems will be able to keep their promises to future [...]
