{"id":11089,"date":"2025-01-17T04:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-01-17T11:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/?p=11089"},"modified":"2025-01-17T11:21:30","modified_gmt":"2025-01-17T18:21:30","slug":"weekend-credit-card-and-banking-updates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/2025\/01\/17\/weekend-credit-card-and-banking-updates\/","title":{"rendered":"Weekend Credit Card and Banking Updates"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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  1. The Bank of America Alaska Business card has an increased offer of 75,000 miles<\/a> after $4,000 spend in 90 days. You can usually get multiple cards<\/a> with multiple businesses.

    In the before times, I loved getting multiple Alaska cards each time a heightened offer came out. Now that (a) BofA’s payment options aren’t what they used to be, and (b) the Alaska and Hawaiian merger completed so you can transfer Membership Rewards \u2192 Hawaiian \u2192 Alaska, this card is mid at best; especially when Membership Rewards card bonuses approach a half-million points with a little     15x<\/a> fun.
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  2. US Bank has a $900 sign-up bonus for a new Platinum Business checking account<\/a> with promo code Q1DIG25<\/em> through March 31. You’ve got to bring $25,000 in new funds within 30 days and maintain them through day 60, and you’ve got to have 5 debit, ACH, or other transactions.

    If you time everything perfectly, that means that you only need funds in the present for 31 days, which is an effective APR of 43%. Last I checked, 43% was slightly better than,     let’s say Chase<\/a>, was paying on checking accounts too. Having this account will help with US Bank business credit card approvals, like the $750 Business Leverage<\/a> or $750 Triple Cash rewards cards<\/a>. (Thanks to DDG<\/a>)
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  3. The American Express Delta SkyMiles personal cards have increased sign-up bonus for direct links<\/a> and referrals, but the increased bonuses require the American Express random number generator to work in your favor. The offers:

    – Gold: 80,000 miles after $2,000 spend in six months, annual fee waived first year
    – Platinum: 90,000 miles after $3,000 spend in six months
    – Reserve: 100,000 miles after $5,000 spend in six months

    If you don’t see the heightened offer, try switching browsers, using incognito mode, or poking an     Ed Bastion<\/a> voodoo doll.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n\n

    Have a nice weekend, and watch for a guest post tomorrow!<\/p>\n\n\n

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    Q: Why does the Ed Bastion voodoo doll have a cape?
    A: AmEx works better that way.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    Have a nice weekend, and watch for a guest post tomorrow! Q: Why does the Ed Bastion voodoo doll have a cape?A: AmEx works better<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_editorskit_title_hidden":false,"_editorskit_reading_time":0,"_editorskit_is_block_options_detached":false,"_editorskit_block_options_position":"{}","footnotes":""},"categories":[69,54,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11089","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bank-bonuses","category-credit-cards","category-ms-hints"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11089","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11089"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11089\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11092,"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11089\/revisions\/11092"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11089"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11089"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11089"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}