Mint.com Video Review
Mint.com is far and away the leading personal finance sync site, offering the ability to get a consoidated view of all your banking, credit and investment accounts in one password-protected view.
Not convinced that you should join Mint? Check out this review by Slate.com’s resident tech guru Farhad Majoo.
100 Reasons Why America is Still Great
As we gather around the country to celebrate our nation’s independence, it’s tough for many Americans to be in a real good mood when the recession has tread all over our financial freedoms like King George himself.
But while things look bleak right now, it’s important to remember that after all these years, the good old U.S. of A. is still the place to be when it comes to the pursuit of happiness.
So in honor of our country, and in no particular order, here are one hundred reasons why America is still the land of hope and opportunity.
Happy Fourth of July!
- The Bill of Rights
- Meritocracy
- New York City
- Radio
- Television
- The Internet
- Minimum wage laws
- The Wall Street Journal
- The Daily Show
- Major League Baseball
- Family farms
- Megafarms
- OSHA
- Oprah
- Cops
- Teachers
- Firemen
- Nurses
- Risk
- Reward
- The Dollar
- Gold
- Networking
- Electricity
- HR
- General Motors
- Working your way through college
- Student loan programs
- 529 Plans
- Rich uncles
- Airlines
- The Gap
- Lawsuits
- Pro-bono lawyers
- Cubicles
- Free and open elections
- Nike
- Recycling
- Free public education
- Exports
- Imports
- Charities
- Free textbooks
- Free school lunch
- Starbucks
- Social Security
- Pensions
- 401(k) plans
- Venture capitalists
- Dot-coms
- The child tax credit
- Tipping
- Amtrak
- Cash
- Credit
- Chicago
- Municipal drinking water
- McDonald’s
- The NFL
- Insurance
- Watchdogs
- Whistle-blowers
- Medicare
- The FDIC
- Apple
- Alan Greenspan
- The National Guard
- Automatic teller machines
- Debtbeat
- Las Vegas
- Coca-Cola
- The mortgage interest deduction
- Wal-Mart
- Hospitals
- The Postal Service
- Happy hour
- Warren Buffett
- Bill Gates
- Boston
- Freeways
- Ford
- Weekends
- Holidays
- 5 o’clock
- Garbage collection
- Sewage treatment
- College football
- The U.S. Armed Forces
- Hollywood
- Democrats
- Republicans
- The Tea Party
- Raises
- Bonuses
- Commissions
- Praise for a job well done
- Washington, DC
- Sea to shining sea….
Get Free College Money at SponsorMyDegree.com
Ain’t Too Proud to Beg? If you’re a college student or recent graduate with student loans to pay off you may want to check out a new online service called SponsorMyDegree.com.
The site matches students and recent graduates with individuals and companies willing to help pay for their education. It’s basically glorified begging, as these contributions ar not loans and the student is not expected to provide any goods or services in exchange for the donations to their college funds.
Student users set up a free profile and tell prospective donors about their studies, hobbies, plans or anything else of potential interest to someone who might slide them some cash. They can promote their listings to friends and family who can donate to them through the site. They can withdraw money if they get a minimum of twenty dollars.
People and corporations who donate to students can give as little as five dollars. Major corporate fundings can be allocated for as little as a dollar.
SponsorMyDegree.com is not a charity, and contributions to students are not tax deductible. The site makes money by targeted advertising and students are a very attractive target market. No one wants to bombarded by spammy e-mails, but there’s no such thing as a free lunch and it’s probably worth it if you can get some books paid at the very least. Just set your e-mail filter to high.
There seems to be a host of new student funding options lately, like peer2peer services and now, the pure handout.
This may be because the government has opted to remove private banks from the student loan origination process, limiting some choice in this process. The credit crisis also limits students’ options now.
So if you’d like to get some help with your student debt this is a potentially viable source of cash. But don’t try to game the system if you’re not a student; the service does verify student enrollment through a central clearinghouse.



