Personal Finance Advice and Commentary

Montana is giving a new meaning to government transparency, allowing the public to see its online checking account.

Is the traditional bank account checkbook a dead technology? Maybe. Or maybe not. It’s no secret that technologies, loosely defined, sweep by faster today than they ever did in the past. Classic toys that delighted children in the 1950s are ancient history. Once-common items like hotel room keys, user’s manuals, camera film and pay telephones