It has been a pretty wild year, full of sensational headlines and talking heads that have turned from cheerleaders into doomsday prophets. Since we are taking a break for the holidays for the remainder of the week, we wanted to give you something light to enjoy and encourage you to take a couple of days off from the strenuous financial planning process, and we will be back next week with new resources to help ensure that 2009 can be a prosperous year for you. Until then, here’s a dose of nostalgia with some humorous (and even slightly ominous) bank advertisements from decades past.

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