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Citi ThankYou Preferred Card $500 Bonus is Back

Citi ran a great promotion in October on a few sites, including Creditnet, which ended up only lasting a few weeks before it was pulled offline. Well, it’s back!

The Citi ThankYou Preferred Card is once again offering new cardholders the opportunity to earn up to 50,000 bonus points during the first year of use.  If you want to read all the details about the pros and cons of this credit card, check out my original post:  Citi ThankYou Preferred Card Review: 50,000 Bonus Promotion.  For a brief update, read on.

The reason this card offer is worth mentioning again is because we frankly don’t see many no annual fee credit cards that come along offering $500 bonuses.  I tho

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Saving Money On Video Games: Steam Sales Edition

Steam is your best friend when it comes to saving money on video games. Steam is an online digital game distributor run by the gaming publisher Valve. Every Holiday, they hold what are affectionately known as “Steam Sales”. These sales are when they start to heavily discount the video games they distribute for the purpose of getting more games into the hands of gamers right when those gamers have the most extra cash floating around. There’s a few things to know about the Steam Sales before you dive in, so read on to make sure that you take proper advantage of the discounted merchandise.

Format

The Steam Sale is broken up into a variety of segments. The f

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How to survive in modern wild world of credit cards

credit cardsDo you mention sometimes, that the market of credit cards looks like tropic jungle? This allegory learn us how to deal with credit cards. We know what to expect, but we look around as unfortunate victims until it happens. Then we complain that we knew what to expect and should have done something to prevent it. Yes, if the credit cards had teeth we really need to fight in jungles. The difference is this particular breed of sharks continue to nibble your money until you chewed into financial ruin if you’re not careful. Full Article

Obama holds roundtable discussion on college affordability

For example, Dr. Robert Mendenhall, President of Western Governor’s University, was one of the presidents in attendance and has helped develop a tuition model unlike most others. Instead of charging tuition per credit, WGU charges a flat rate tuition for a six-month period. Heres how WGU describes their tuition and costs:

WGU treats all students as full-time and charges tuition at a flat rate regardless of the number ofpetency units attempted orpleted by the student. The standard term is based upon a full-time enrollment of at least 12petency units for undergraduate students and 8petency units for graduate students. S

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Has The gold Bubble Burst?

The history of trading gold

Historically, investing in gold involved buying it in the form of coins or bullion bars. This resulted in high buying and selling commissions, along with finding a storage facility and insurance plan.

In 2002, Christopher Thompson became chairman of the World Gold Council’s (WGC) executive committee. He realised that the creation of an Exchange Traded Fund (ETF) backed by physical gold reserves, tradeable by anyone with a brokerage account on the New York Stock Exchange, would be the trigger for rising gold prices.

In 2004, the SPDR Gold Trust went live, and in eight days it attracted the third highest level of investment on the entire exchange. F

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