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Saturday, 18 December 2010

How the FDIC Affects Your Wallet

You might be surprised to learn that the FDIC is not funded by tax payer revenue, so it receives no Congressional appropriations. Rather, it’s funded by premiums that banks and thrift institutions pay for deposit insurance coverage and from earnings on investments in U.S. Treasury securities. With an insurance fund totaling more than $45 billion,...
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The FDIC, Your Bank, and You

We’re launching our blog with a short series of posts dedicated to how we work with the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, or FDIC, to protect your hard-earned cash. (With bank failures and economic doom-and-gloom all over the news we thought it a good place to start.) But before we get into specifics, we need to provide a brief history of the...
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Make the Most of FDIC Insurance

Our last post made reference to the FDIC’s Electronic Deposit Insurance Estimator, or EDIE, to help you determine if you have adequate deposit insurance for your accounts. Today we’ll delve further into ways you can make the most of available FDIC deposit insurance coverage. Perhaps one of the best features of FDIC deposit insurance is that’s free....
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Benefits of “Going Local”

“The past few years have seen increased emphasis on “going local,” or supporting local communities by consuming products that are produced and sold by independent organizations rather than big-box, franchised retailers,” according to American Fork City Councilman, Dale Gunther in an article published in the February 2009 Utah County Business Journal....
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“How much should I have in savings?”

It’s not often that I read the magazines in the break room–partly because I could care less what’s going on with Brangelina or because I have no interest in making cupcakes look like butterflies. But I confess to opening the April 1, 2009 issue of Family Circle Magazine a few days ago and stumbling upon an article by Kate Ashford titled “Financial...
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Tax Fun Facts

Is it really fair to place the words “tax” and “fun” next to each other? We’ll let you decide, but with April 15th bearing down on us, here are some interesting–if not fun–tax facts to divert your thoughts for a few minutes and hopefully lift your spirits. The first property tax in the United States was in 1798.The first US income tax started during...
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Minimizing the Stress of a Layoff – Part 1 of 3

Layoffs are commonplace in a sagging economy, and chances are good that you know someone who has recently been laid-off from his or her job. And it often doesn’t matter how good you are at your job or how hard you work. But a layoff doesn’t have to be the end of the world, nor should it be. The key to minimizing the stress and negative fallout is...
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