{"id":391,"date":"2008-09-17T19:47:29","date_gmt":"2008-09-18T00:47:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fiveforks.com\/ted\/2008\/09\/washington_mutual\/"},"modified":"2012-01-22T12:43:12","modified_gmt":"2012-01-22T17:43:12","slug":"washington_mutual","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fiveforks.com\/ted\/2008\/09\/washington_mutual\/","title":{"rendered":"Washington Mutual"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I had some cash I wanted to put somewhere and get a good interest rate. I thought about getting another <a title=\"Series I Savings Bonds\" href=\"http:\/\/fiveforks.com\/ted\/2008\/04\/series_i_savings_bonds\/\">Series I Savings Bond<\/a> since they currently pay 4.8%, but they penalize you 3 months of interest if you sell them before 5 years. Washington Mutual was advertising 1-year CD&#8217;s at 5% last week. I think they are trying to raise cash since they are one of the banks in trouble. I was able to sign up online, but they made me verify my checking account by electronically depositing two small payments (then I report back to them the amounts and they would know everything worked). ING, PayPal, and Google AdSense do the same thing, but it does take a couple of days for the deposits to show up (both less than a dollar, usually less than 20 cents each).<\/p>\n<p>So I waited. Within a day or two I checked my bank account and they had deposited 72 and 94 cents. But I also noticed there was a *third* transaction taking those two deposits back ($1.66). They really are short of money.<\/p>\n<p>The nice thing about it was I don&#8217;t have to make an entry in my checkbook register.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I had some cash I wanted to put somewhere and get a good interest rate. I thought about getting another Series I Savings Bond since they currently pay 4.8%, but they penalize you 3 months of interest if you sell them before 5 years. Washington Mutual was advertising 1-year CD&#8217;s at 5% last week. I &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fiveforks.com\/ted\/2008\/09\/washington_mutual\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Washington Mutual&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-391","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-finance"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveforks.com\/ted\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/391","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveforks.com\/ted\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveforks.com\/ted\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveforks.com\/ted\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/15"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveforks.com\/ted\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=391"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveforks.com\/ted\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/391\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1283,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveforks.com\/ted\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/391\/revisions\/1283"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveforks.com\/ted\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=391"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveforks.com\/ted\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=391"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveforks.com\/ted\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=391"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}