Take a minute, if you missed it already, to check out this editorial in the NYTimes by Eliot Spitzer, Frank Partnoy and Bill Black (three people who have investigated a fair amount of financial fraud) where they call for an open source investigation of what went wrong at AIG (AIG):
we know where the answers are. They are in the trove of e-mail messages still backed up on A.I.G. servers, as well as in the key internal accounting documents and financial models generated by A.I.G. during the past decade. Before releasing its regulatory clutches, the government should insist that the company immediately make these materials public. By putting the evidence online, the government could establish a new form of “open source” investigation.
Once the documents are available for everyone to inspect, a thousand journalistic flowers can bloom, as reporters, victims and angry citizens have a chance to piece together the story. In
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The national average savings account rate/money market account rate for account balances of $2,500 is only 0.364% this week but you can find savings account rates well above the national average.
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Volunteering during the holidays may sound counter-productive when faced with debt to pay down. After all, time spent helping others potentially takes away from time spent earning income. But in reality, volunteering pays off on several fronts for the debt-minded individual and family.
The Oklahoma Daily addressed the generous approach to holidays in one of their pre-winter break articles.
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What a lot of people don’t realize is that there is a lot of research and planning to get you to spend more when you walk into a store. Lee Eisenberg,the author of “Shoptimism” says that the retail outlets are experts at playing on your emotions, your perceptions and your lack of critical reasoning.
What may surprise you is that it is often little things that you would never think would influence you that actually do. For example, studies have shown that simply adding the word “only” or “just” before the price of an item rather than the price only will get people to buy more. Or that “10 items for $10? will get people to buy a lot more of the item rather than listing the price as $1 each even though they are exactly the same.
Stores also like to play the game of “good, better, best” with the merchandise in there store knowing that consumers that see similar items for a high price and a low price will most often go for the middle priced good. They also use the “
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According to credit card provider MBNA, charity credit cards can make a significant difference to the causes they support.
For example, charity credit cards from MBNA help to make contributions of over £10 million to WWF every year, over £1.4 million to Breakthrough Breast Cancer and £1.5 million to the National Trust.
When payments are made using a charity credit card, the issuer pays a percentage of the cost of every purchase made to the charity of the card holders’ choice.
No extra charge is made to the charity credit card holder when this happens.
MBNA’s comments follow the release of a survey by the card provider, which revealed 51% of those polled thought a charity card was appealing.
However, a total of 41% were not aware of the concept of a charity credit card.
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