--- title: 'More Money Thursday Roundup: Dependable Toyotas & College Funding Strategies' description: 'Personal finance from around the Web: Two steps forward, one (almost) back: On Monday a New York district court judge rejected a proposal by the…' authors: - name: timestaff url: https://money.com/author/timestaff/ articles: 459 covers: - Banking - Career Advice - Credit - Credit Cards - Housing - Identity Theft - Insurance - Investing - Lifestyle - Loans - Mortgages - Personal Finance - Professional Services - Retirement - Shopping - Taxes former_staff: true published: '2010-03-18T21:12:44.000Z' modified: '2024-05-07T08:39:43.000Z' section: Education tags: - Financial adviser - Mad Money - online finance - Personal Finance - save for college - saving for college - SEC - Toyota - wall street word_count: 218 canonical: https://money.com/more-money-thursday-roundup-dependable-toyotas-college-funding-strategies/ type: Article source: structured-blocks --- > **Disclosure:** We research all brands listed and may earn a fee from our partners. Research and financial considerations may influence how brands are displayed. Not all brands are included. [Learn more](https://money.com/page/disclaimer/). ![More Money Thursday Roundup: Dependable Toyotas & College Funding Strategies](https://money.com/content.money.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/140601_money_gen_13.jpg?crop=0px%2C733px%2C4780px%2C2689px&resize=1012%2C569&quality=85&strip&ssl=1) Personal finance from around the Web: - Two steps forward, one (almost) back: On Monday a New York district court judge rejected a proposal by the SEC and 12 Wall Street firms which would have eradicated a landmark reform of a 2003 post-Internet-bubble settlement: [supervising communications between bankers and research analysts](http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704743404575128122174622274.html?mod=djemalertNEWS). \[The Wall Street Journal\] - Maybe those Toyotas aren't so bad after all: J.D. Power and Associates ranked the Prius first in its compact car category for the [2010 Car Dependability Study](http://www.bizjournals.com/cincinnati/stories/2010/03/15/daily42.html), and its Tundra topped the list for pickups. \[BizJournal\] - Mad Money may have become Bad Money as the SEC investigates TheStreet.com, a site founded by CNBC personality Jim Cramer, for [the alleged accounting missteps of one of its subsidiaries](http://www.nypost.com/p/news/business/sec_probes_thestreet_com_finances_UsDqDukpBGlDwiEAZElYiJ). \[New York Post\] - Does a private, online meeting of your family and your financial adviser sound appealing? Blueleaf, an Internet start-up, is working to create a [virtual "kitchen table" discussion space](http://www.boston.com/business/technology/innoeco/2010/03/on_the_radar_blueleaf_a_secure.html) where users will be able to access all their account and investment information online and talk about it. \[Innovation Economy\] - Saving smart for your kid's college education doesn't necessarily mean mortgaging the house to finance four years of undergraduate education. 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