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High Yield Savings Accounts
Here is our list of high-yield Internet bank accounts that you can use to judge the competitiveness of your bank’s interest rates. This list is updated bi-weekly and, in the near future, we hope to provide you with historical data on each of the accounts so that you can see how each of the banks [...]
Happy Birthday Heidi!
We here at DumbAgent.com would like to wish Heidi a very economically rational and sustainably happy birthday! Now for the relatively unrelated trivia question: How many people must there be in order to have a 50% probability of two people sharing the same birthday? The answer is available by clicking on the ‘read the rest’ [...]
High Yield Savings Accounts
Here is our list of high-yield Internet bank accounts that you can use to judge the competitiveness of your bank’s interest rates. This list is updated bi-weekly and, in the near future, we hope to provide you with historical data on each of the accounts so that you can see how each of the banks [...]
On Government Spending… Beating a Dead Horse Once Again
In a recent Reader’s Digest article entitled, “The Government is Wasting Your Tax Dollars,” the authors Ryan Grim and Joseph K. Vetter concluded that an estimated USD 983.5 billion is overspent on just a handful of government projects each year. To put that number in perspective, the United States Government’s (USG) total tax revenue for [...]
High Yielding Savings Accounts
A sortable table of places to put your hard earned cash to get the most out your savings. NB: Annual Percentage Yield (APY) > Interest Rate. (We will discuss the difference between the two and how to calculate it in the near future)
