Travel reward cards come with different perks and features. It’s not an easy task to rate the cards.We found the best travel rewards card for affluent is American Express platinum card. If you are a frequent traveler, this card can earn you more rewards than the $450 annual fee. Bur we are not recommending to general public who usually are not frequent flier. Many air lines also provide travel credit cards. But some those cards have much higher APR than bank or other credit card providers. Still some airline credit cards, like British Airways, Southwest airlines are better than other…
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Finance Product reviews across the blogosphere Lazy Man presents Money Rules by Jean Chatzky Reviewed posted at Lazy Man and Money. JB presents Mint Review posted at My University Money. Roger the Amateur Financier presents Book Review – Eat That Frog! posted at The Amateur Financier. Grand Per Month writes Multi-Level Marketing Companies in Review. Free From Broke presents review of Startwood preferred card from American Express. Afford Anything presents Book Review – Good to Great by Jim Collins. Carnival We are grateful to the gracious carnival hosts for hosting and including my articles. Carnival of Financial Camaraderie @ My University Money Carnival of Retirement @ Broke Professionals Yakezie Carnival @ Money Reasons Financial Carnival of Young Adults @ 20′s Finances…
Not often we come across banks who has rate pledges, EverBank announces at its home site that the rates for its account holders would remain in top territory. EverBank’s Yield Pledge®Promise -We promise your rates will always be in the top 5% of competitive accounts at leading banks. That means they are ensuring that you will be still a top of saving bank/Money market investor with respect to yield, even if rates go down even further in future. I liked the pledge, frankly I haven’t seen any other bank doing that. As I mentioned in my Tiaa direct Review, banks…
Smart consumers know that making purchases on credit costs you more money in the long run. Sure, you might make a given purchase with the intention of paying off your credit card before the billing cycle ends, but often it just doesn’t happen. Pulling out a credit card often means paying at least a few dollars more for many purchases. There is another, much more subtle way that using a credit card will cost you more money, however. Professors Promothesh Chatterjee and Randall Rose of University of Kansas and University of South Carolina respectively recently published some research that suggests…
Welcome readers to this roundup and link love edition. Let’s see the articles that caught my attention past week. Good Reads and Reviews in Blogosphere Slippery Slope of Separate Money at Evolving PF. Cult of money talks about Blogging as a Business run by venture capitalists. Simple island living calculates her cost of moving across the Ocean. Tackling our debt discusses about Canadian first time home buyer tax credit. What do you do when you spill water on your laptop or it gets in to water, head out to read, Laptop Underwater. The Price of a Sandwich from Freedom 48….
Serve is the American Express reply to both PayPal and Google Wallet (Amex Serve vs. PayPal). It has been criticized for not offering anything new that PayPal was not offering one year ago, and this was last year. However, just this February 16, 2012, Serve released a statement that it would be operating with the same technology as Google Wallet – making a sale or transaction through the use of smartphones and an NFC card reader. A Competition in the Offing This makes it a potential three-way race – PayPal has been at Google Wallet right from the start, after…
Do not forget, this is a blog and not a regular website. Here I can certainly give some personal touch at times. When I get bored of reviewing products, I want to cover other aspects of personal finance. In future, I am going to highlight certain financial aspects which are equally important as reading the reviews. Today I am again going to list some good reads around the financial blogosphere. I think you should read them and get benefited. The Amateur Financier Reviews the book Eat that Frog. Jason at Work Save Live wants to sell his wife’s wedding ring…
First up, you should know that the AMEX Platinum card is not a typical credit card – it is a charge card. This means that at the end of every month, you will have to pay for what you spent with the card in full, and no exceptions. This makes using the card pretty convenient – you don’t have to keep track of how much you owe because at the end of every month, your debt goes back to zero. This is the reason the AMEX platinum card has no APR – you have no need of one. The payback…
Foursquare is a simple app that connects people within social networks to real places. Foursquare has certain activities or games, like for example, someone frequenting a place becomes the “mayor” of the location, and so on and so forth. It can also locate friends for you aside from locations through GPS, so you know when you are within distance of a friend. As a tool for connecting people, Foursquare functions pretty well, especially by getting people outside their rooms or habits into new places, new activities and new things. At face value, that is what Foursquare is. However, if you…
Earlier we have reviewed Turbo Tax Home Edition at FPR. Now presenting the tool that I personally use for our tax return. Taxact.com. Taxact.com is an application that helps you out in preparing and filing your taxes, both in state and federal. You can run the software from a standalone desktop without Internet connection, or you can use its online version. You can get it for free, though you have to pay for it with advertisements and nag screens all the way, or you can get the editions without the advertisements after paying a fee. With all the options, you…
