Other Free Consumer Newsletters
You may also wish to try one or two other newsletters, then add
or drop some depending on how much they're helping you. The
ones listed below are the most consumer-friendly letters
we know of, with the broadest coverage of important
consumer topics.
We judged the quality of these newsletters
by actually subscribing to them. The criteria was
simple: they were rated by the number of articles they
contained that we judged to be of high usefulness to
consumers. A health newsletter from WebMD is also
suggested, because "health is the greatest wealth" as the saying
goes.
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1. BankRate.
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Bankrate's newsletter gives you many good tips covering a broad
range of financial subjects. Their greatest expertise is
in banking, mortgage rates and credit cards. But their
newsletters go far beyond those subjects and they really do a
first-rate job. They cover thrift and conservation in
greater depth than the other sites, but don't expect them to say
much about investing.
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2. CBS Market Watch.
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Their excellent Personal Finance newsletter covers a broad range
of subjects important to consumers. They have expertise in
real estate and investing, carrying articles from both the Wall
Street Journal and the Real Estate Journal.
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2. (tie) Kiplinger Personal Finance.
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Kiplinger.com has probably the best weekly newsletter, for
those who don't want to spend much time reading. Their
specialties include tax advice, investing, economic forecasting,
retirement and agricultural news. They also publish the
highly regarded "Kiplinger Letters" that you can get by mail.
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WebMD.
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WebMD has a daily newsletter covering the latest medical news and
dispensing good advice for healthy living. Other
newsletters cover cooking, beauty, sleeping well, dieting and
their "Living Better" letter. There are also over twenty
specialized newsletters that focus on various medical conditions.
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Other sites.
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Some other newsletters we've found to be quite useful are produced by
Consumer Reports,
Smart Money Magazine,
MSN Money,
CNN Money
(which is produced in association with Money Magazine) and
The Dollar Stretcher.
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