--- title: 'More Money Wednesday Roundup: A Thrifty Trick & Big Bank Failures' description: 'Personal finance from around the Web: A simple trick to cut your spending: Estimate the annual cost of what you''re buying. [Debt-Proof Living via Free…' 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: '2010-03-31T21:28:31.000Z' modified: '2020-07-07T10:21:20.000Z' section: Banking tags: - Airline - AirTran - commercial - cut spending - Federal Reserve - financial reform - IRS - mortgage bonds - Paul Volcker - Personal Finance - tax fraud word_count: 179 canonical: https://money.com/more-money-wednesday-roundup-a-thrifty-trick-big-bank-failures/ 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 Wednesday Roundup: A Thrifty Trick & Big Bank Failures](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: - A simple trick to cut your spending: [Estimate the annual cost of what you're buying.](http://www.freemoneyfinance.com/2010/03/a-simple-trick-to-stop-spending.html) \[Debt-Proof Living via Free Money Finance\] - Fearful of fraud? Of course, you are. In fact, it's is a sign of successful messaging on the part of the IRS, which seems to make an annual [push for publicizing tax fraud cases](http://economix.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/03/31/tis-the-season-for-catching-tax-scofflaws/) as the calendar year approaches April 15th. \[Economix\] - Say goodbye to the Federal Reserve's support of mortgage bonds. Today is the end of the Fed's $1.25 trillion binge on U.S. mortgage-backed securities. The debate continues on [what the Fed's cease and desist will mean for rates.](http://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2010/03/how-will-the-feds-mbs-exit-affect-mortgage-rates/38249/) \[The Atlantic Online\] - If you have ever been in a Southwest Airlines corral for seating, you will probably enjoy [AirTran's latest commercial](http://consumerist.com/2010/03/airtran-makes-fun-of-southwest-seating-in-commercial.html), which takes the herd of cattle metaphor to a very literal level. \[The Consumerist\] [Watch video](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f6DdDlPT4Uc) - Never too big to fail: Former Federal Reserve Chairman Paul Volcker scoffs at the notion that banks should think financial reform will protect them from getting shut down. \[AFP\] *Follow Money on Twitter at* [*http://twitter.com/money*](https://twitter.com/money). ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "BreadcrumbList", "@id": "https://money.com/more-money-wednesday-roundup-a-thrifty-trick-big-bank-failures/#breadcrumb", "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "name": "Home", "item": "https://money.com" }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 2, "name": "Banking", "item": "https://money.com/banking/" }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 3, "name": "Banks", "item": "https://money.com/banks/" }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 4, "name": "More Money Wednesday Roundup: A Thrifty Trick & Big Bank Failures" } ] }, { "@type": "WebSite", "@id": "https://money.com/#website", "url": "https://money.com", "name": "Money", "publisher": { "@id": "https://money.com/#organization" } }, { "@type": "WebPage", "@id": "https://money.com/more-money-wednesday-roundup-a-thrifty-trick-big-bank-failures/#webpage", "url": "https://money.com/more-money-wednesday-roundup-a-thrifty-trick-big-bank-failures/", "name": "More Money Wednesday Roundup: A Thrifty Trick & Big Bank Failures", "isPartOf": { "@id": "https://money.com/#website" }, "datePublished": "2010-03-31T21:28:31.000Z", "mainEntity": { "@id": "https://money.com/more-money-wednesday-roundup-a-thrifty-trick-big-bank-failures/" }, "inLanguage": "en-US", "breadcrumb": { "@id": "https://money.com/more-money-wednesday-roundup-a-thrifty-trick-big-bank-failures/#breadcrumb" }, "dateModified": "2020-07-07T10:21:20.000Z" }, { "@type": "Article", "headline": "More Money Wednesday Roundup: A Thrifty Trick & Big Bank Failures", "articleSection": "Banking", "image": [ { "@type": "ImageObject", "url": "https://img.money.com/2014/06/140601_money_gen_13.jpg?quality=85", "width": 4780, "height": 3540 } ], "author": [ { "@type": "Person", "name": "timestaff", "url": "https://money.com/author/timestaff/", "@id": "https://money.com/author/timestaff/#author" } ], "publisher": "https://money.com/#organization", "datePublished": "2010-03-31T21:28:31.000Z", "description": "Personal finance from around the Web: A simple trick to cut your spending: Estimate the annual cost of what you're buying. 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