{"id":381492,"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.media\/index\/381492","title":{"rendered":"VIDEO: Should I Go Credit Union Or Bank?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/consumerist.com\/assets_c\/2010\/03\/creditunion-thumb-165x114-37635.jpg\">         <\/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":5467,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-381492","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/381492","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5467"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=381492"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/381492\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=381492"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=381492"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=381492"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}