--- title: 'More Money Wednesday Roundup: Bankers'' Botched Deal & Free College Credits' description: 'Personal finance from around the Web: Oh, the irony! The Mortgage Bankers Association sold its DC headquarters at a $38 million loss after the property…' 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: '2010-02-10T23:35:06.000Z' modified: '2020-07-07T10:20:14.000Z' section: Education tags: - Anthem Blue Cross - Bank of America - Citigroup - college credit - Congress - grocery coupons - health insurance - Mortgage Bankers Association - Personal Finance - S&P - Tax deduction word_count: 233 canonical: https://money.com/more-money-wednesday-roundup-bankers-botched-deal-free-college-credits/ 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: Bankers' Botched Deal & Free College Credits](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: - Oh, the irony! The Mortgage Bankers Association [sold its DC headquarters at a $38 million loss](http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/2010/feb/09/mortgage-bankers-association-property-debacle) after the property suffered a huge decline in value. \[Guardian\] - Despite improved performance in recent months, Citigroup and Bank of America are still in the in the hot seat. [S&P might downgrade the lenders' credit ratings](http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/e7f8289e-15b7-11df-ad7e-00144feab49a.html) over the next six months to two years. \[Financial Times\] - Congress has opened an investigation into rate increases at California for-profit health insurer Anthem Blue Cross. Some of Anthem's estimated 800,000 customers with [individual health insurance](http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-anthem10-2010feb10,0,2234973.story) policies are being told their premiums will jump a whopping 39% in March. \[Los Angeles Times\] - Adding to the coupon-clipping revival, a website called ShortCuts.com allows consumers to [add grocery coupons to credit cards](http://www.thedigeratilife.com/blog/electronic-coupons-grocery-card/#more-27350) before they go shopping, enabling the discounts to be automatically applied at checkout. \[Digerati Life\] - With tax season just around the corner, start thinking about how to make the most of your property. Unfortunately, donating [vacation homes](http://www.dailyfinance.com/2010/02/10/forget-tax-break-when-you-donate-vacation-home-stays-to-charitie/) to charity doesn't give you a tax deduction. Of course, you could do an [energy audit](http://articles.moneycentral.msn.com/SmartSpending/blog/page.aspx?post=1614931) to earn a tax credit. \[WalletPop | MSN Smart Spending\] - While college tuition is still on the rise, students can take advantage of something cheaper -- a [Post Secondary Education Option](http://www.thefinancialstudent.com/2010/02/02/how-im-receiving-30-hours-of-college-credit-for-15-dollars/), which enables high-schoolers to get college credit for little or no money. \[The Financial Student\] *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-bankers-botched-deal-free-college-credits/#breadcrumb", "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "name": "Home", "item": "https://money.com" }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 2, "name": "Education", "item": "https://money.com/education/" }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 3, "name": "Paying for College", "item": "https://money.com/paying-for-college/" }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 4, "name": "More Money Wednesday Roundup: Bankers' Botched Deal & Free College Credits" } ] }, { "@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-bankers-botched-deal-free-college-credits/#webpage", "url": "https://money.com/more-money-wednesday-roundup-bankers-botched-deal-free-college-credits/", "name": "More Money Wednesday Roundup: Bankers' Botched Deal & Free College Credits", "isPartOf": { "@id": "https://money.com/#website" }, "datePublished": "2010-02-10T23:35:06.000Z", "mainEntity": { "@id": "https://money.com/more-money-wednesday-roundup-bankers-botched-deal-free-college-credits/" }, "inLanguage": "en-US", "breadcrumb": { "@id": "https://money.com/more-money-wednesday-roundup-bankers-botched-deal-free-college-credits/#breadcrumb" }, "dateModified": "2020-07-07T10:20:14.000Z" }, { "@type": "Article", "headline": "More Money Wednesday Roundup: Bankers' Botched Deal & Free College Credits", "articleSection": "Education", "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": "2010-02-10T23:35:06.000Z", "description": "Personal finance from around the Web: Oh, the irony! 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