One of the traditional major steps towards financial freedom and independent living is the proper use and maintenance of a checking account. Checking accounts allow consumers to maintain an account to pay in and out of for free, often with low minimums, cash available at your fingertips and often even with a little bit of […]
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Riding the Market Weather
June 29th, 2006. It was an innocuous day as the stock market was booming in the post-9/11 recovery. The economy was torrid and the unemployment rate was 4.6% in the USA. That fall, I opened up my checking account with Charles Schwab with their floating-rate free checking account (with no minimums or ATM fees) was paying […]