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American Express Bank Savings Review: High Yield Savings Account

American Express has been around for 160+ years, has one of the most recognizable brands in the world and now savings accounts as well!

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Happy Monday Morning!

October 6, 2008

Happy Monday morning to one and all. It’s going to be another interesting week! As the markets opened this week, instead of the markets going up because of the bailout bill, the markets are going down. Now legislators are saying that a recovery may take weeks or months and that they didn’t expect the markets [...]

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House Passes $700 Billion Bailout Bill

October 3, 2008

photo credit: bgilliard After going down to defeat earlier in the week in the House, the second version of the bailout bill was passed today without a problem: The House of Representatives passed a sweeping, $700 billion economic rescue package after reconsidering the measure it failed to green-light earlier this week. The vote was 263 [...]

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Our Cruise Was the Trip of a Lifetime! (Photos Included!) Part 3

October 3, 2008

Santorini, Greece After we sailed from the port at Naples, Italy, we headed on a course towards Santorini, Greece. Santorini, in case you have never heard of it is a beautiful little volcanic island that is known for its beautiful white buildings, and amazing ocean sunsets. The main island that we visited is shaped like [...]

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Lost In Bailout Talk: Second Stimulus Check is Dead On Arrival

October 2, 2008

photo credit: Daquella manera The last couple of weeks we have seen a lot of news about our struggling economy, bailouts of troubled financial companies and buyouts of their their troubled assets. This news is important, and it’s obvious we need to be talking about it. One thing that has been lost in all of [...]

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Senate OKs $700B bailout

October 2, 2008

photo credit: Wolfgang Staudt A few days after the House rejected a similar $700 billion bailout plan, the Senate on Wednesday gave approval to a similar but slightly different bailout plan. The new plan which now includes several other measures meant to sweeten the pot and bring some members who previously voted the plan down [...]

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September Site Numbers and Recap

October 2, 2008

Looking back at September 2008 September was another banner month here at Bible Money Matters. Our numbers continued to increase as we passed 75,000 visitors and 134,000 page views all time. Our RSS subscribers passed 400 for the first time In September. On top of that we moved up to number 40 on Fire Finance’s [...]

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Bankruptcy, Not Bailout?

October 1, 2008

photo credit: kevindooley I have been reading a lot of opinions on whether or not a bailout measure is a good idea, and there are a lot of differing viewpoints on the subject. Many are saying that if we don’t come up with a bailout package, that the economy will crash because of the lack [...]

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Personal Finance Bible Verse of the Day: Uncertain Times

October 1, 2008

Command those who are rich in this present world not to be arrogant nor to put their hope in wealth, which is so uncertain, but to put their hope in God, who richly provides us with everything for our enjoyment. 1 Timothy 6:17 During these uncertain times that we’re facing with our economy, it’s important [...]

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Dave Ramsey’s Solution to the Economic Crisis

September 30, 2008

Dave Ramsey has plenty to say about the current crisis, and what should be done about it. He has even put out a 3 step plan that he believes will resolve the crisis without having the taxpayers bailout financial companies to the tune of $700 billion dollars. You can download his plan here: Here is [...]

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We Live In Turbulent Times – Roundup

September 30, 2008

photo credit: Shiny Things The last couple of weeks in the financial sector have been tough ones, with the markets going up and down (mostly down), rumors of bailout packages, legislation for said bailouts being voted down, lawmakers blaming each other for the plan’s failure and one of the largest drops in the markets in [...]

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House Defeats $700B Financial Markets Bailout

September 29, 2008

I was eating my lunch this afternoon when I saw something that surprised me. The $700 billion bailout package moving through congress was defeated by the house today. I can’t say I think the bailout package is a great idea, but I am surprised that it didn’t pass: The House on Monday defeated a $700 [...]

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Our Cruise Was the Trip of a Lifetime! (Photos Included!) Part 2

September 27, 2008

Florence and Pisa, Italy After leaving the French Riviera our cruise ship headed down the coast towards Italy. We pulled into an Italian port and promptly disembarked. We were on a 8 person tour van for our tour of Pisa and Florence. Our first stop was Pisa and the leaning tower that has made the [...]

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Our Cruise Was the Trip of a Lifetime! (Photos Included!) Part 1

September 26, 2008

A Year In Planning My wife and I, along with her parents, have been planning on going on a Mediterranean cruise for the past year or so. My wife and her parents had never been to Europe, and for all of us taking an extended vacation in Europe was a lifelong dream. Last year we [...]

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I Guess I Spoke Too Soon!? No Deal on $700 Billion Bailout.. Yet.

September 26, 2008

photo credit: Zesmerelda Yesterday I posted the news that we had all been waiting to hear. Congress had finally come to an agreement and had settled on a bailout deal to help jump-start our faltering markets. The price tag? A mere $700 billion dollars. At the announcement of proposed deal the Dow Jones industrials enjoyed [...]

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