{"id":680353,"date":"2010-03-02T11:00:00","date_gmt":"2010-03-02T16:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"tag:consumerist.com,2010:\/\/1.10002738"},"modified":"2010-03-02T12:33:29","modified_gmt":"2010-03-02T17:33:29","slug":"video-should-i-go-credit-union-or-bank","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/680353","title":{"rendered":"VIDEO: Should I Go Credit Union Or Bank?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/consumerist.com\/assets_c\/2010\/03\/creditunion-thumb-165x114-37635.jpg?w=780\">         <\/p>\n<p>Sick of interest rate hikes, new hidden fees, and their credit lines cut, more consumers are trying their local credit union a shot. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/video\/watch\/?id=6232808n\">This CBS video<\/a> takes a look at a credit union in Michigan who bought back their credit card program that they had sold to large bank after members started complaining.<\/p>\n<p>What&#8217;s a credit union? It&#8217;s a local financial cooperative owned and run by the members where all the profit gets returned to them in the form of better savings rates and lower loan costs. In contrast, a large bank has to pay for their high marketing costs and executive salaries. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/video\/watch\/?id=6232808n\">Credit Unions Vs Banks<\/a> [CBSNews] <em>(Thanks to Vivek!)<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sick of interest rate hikes, new hidden fees, and their credit lines cut, more consumers are trying their local credit union a shot. This CBS video takes a look at a credit union in Michigan who bought back their credit card program that they had sold to large bank after members started complaining. What&#8217;s a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3568,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4821],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-680353","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-2QZr","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/680353","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3568"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=680353"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/680353\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=680353"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=680353"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=680353"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}