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Helpful Financial Web sites

• www.annualcreditreport.com: This Web site will provide your credit report from each of the three credit reporting agencies for free, once a year.

• www.americasaves.org:
America Saves is a coalition of nonprofit, corporate and government
groups that encourages personal savings. The Web site provides
strategies, tips, etc.

• www.bankrate.com:
Consumers may compare savings and checking account rates and services,
certificates of deposit, credit cards, mortgages, insurance (including
life and car) and car loan rates by zip code or state. The Web site
also has articles and advice.

• www.consumerfed.org:
The Consumer Federation of America provides testimonies, brochures and
studies on finances, investing, credit reporting, insurance and banking.

• www.fdic.gov/quicklinks/consumers.html:
The Federal Deposit Insurance Corp., an independent agency of the
federal government that insures the money consumers deposit in banks.
The Web site offers a wide variety of advice, such as how not to be an
online victim of identity theft, rights, consumer financial privacy and
tips on investing.

• www.icfe.info:
The Institute of Consumer Financial Education, a nonprofit organization
in San Diego, Calif., aims to help people save money and spend it more
wisely.

-Adam

The long road to financial stability (NorthJersey.com)

Just the thought of wrestling personal finances into some semblance of order can send people into wild and creative bouts of procrastination. It seems agonizingly futile and also, well, just plain humorless to track where your dollars go and then make a plan to rein in spending.

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