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Financial

I am not endorsing any of these companies. I realize that others may choose to invest in other companies than I do, so I have listed several companies with which I have had no personal experience.

• Taxes
• The Internal Revnue Service maintains a page on getting help online.
• Cash
• The US Mint
• Where's George is a web site where you can track your money, provided other people participate too. If you get a bill with www.wheresgeorge.com stamped or written on it, you can go there, enter the serial number, and see where this bill has been. If you register then they will e-mail you when "your" bill(s) are reported by others. This makes use of Cookies, and if you are like me and don't like the idea of someone soaking up your hard drive space with useless cookies and therefore have them turned off, they have a Cookie Free Page. They claim that they don't sell your e-mail address to spammers.
• Credit Reports
• AnnualCreditReport.com - get a copy of your credit report from the big 3 credit reporting agencies below. Note: The web sites of two of the 3 only work with PCs. Do yourself a favor and print to a PDF so that over the coming year, if you need to print another copy before the year is up, you can.
• TransUnion
• Experian
• Equifax
• FreeCreditReport.com isn't free.
• Nebraska Credit Freeze - the state of Nebraska allows you to put a freeze on new lines of credit being opened in your name.
• TransUnion
• Experian
• Equifax
• Consumer Credit
• Visa
• MasterCard
• Discover
• American Express
• Banks, Credit Unions, etc.
• The OCC - Office of the Comptroller of the Currency - Regulates national banks
• The BOG - Board of Governers of the Federal Reserve System - Regulates state chartered banks that are members of the Federal Reserve
• The FDIC - Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. - Regulates state chartered banks that are not members of the Federal Reserve
• The OTS - Office of Thrift Supervison - Regulates federal and state chartered savings associations (credit unions, etc.)
• Yahoo's pages on check printers
• Checks in the Mail
• Current Checks
• Norwest Banks
• Great Western Bank
• First Nebraska Credit Union
• CitiBank ( a division of CitiCorp )
• Report spoofing to emailspoof@citigroup.com
• US Bank
• Report spoofing to fraud_help@usbank.com
• Bank of America
• CapitalOne
• Nations Bank
• Wells Fargo
• Iowa Savings Bank
• Carroll County State Bank
• Stocks, Bonds, similar investments
• The New York Stock Exchange
• The Nasdaq market
• The Prudential Mutual funds
• Fidelity Mutual funds
• Janus Mutual funds
• Charles Schwab
• Merryl Lynch
• T. Rowe Price Mutual Funds
• VanGuard GNMA (Mortgage) funds and Mutual funds
• Waterhouse Securities Inc.
• Guiness Flight Mutual funds
• First Union
• ETrade electronic stock trading.
• Suretrade
• First Chicago Trust Company
• Exchange Rates
• ExchangeRate.com
• Yahoo's Currency Converter
• Financial Advice
Dave Ramsey has a radio show where he gives advice about debt and investments, etc. He also has an excellent series of classes you can take called "Financial Peace University".