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Everybody knows that a low credit score costs you more on a loan or a credit card in terms of interest repayments, but very few actually take notice of the other insidious effects a credit rating has on our lives.
In a sense, credit ratings have become a new form of class filtering...
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Fed officials are considering tighter restrictions on credit card companies.
Namely, according to several wire service reports, the Office of Thrift Supervision and the National Credit Union Administration (now there's a mouthful) seek to prevent the companies from boosting interest rates...
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Roy Ashburn is one of 32 elected officials who failed to properly spell out their expenditures, according to a complaint by Dave Palmer. The officials charged campaign expenses to credit cards, then listed credit card payments on their expense reports instead of listing who they actually bought...
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As anyone who watches the markets knows, Visa hit the stock market today in the largest initial public offering in our country's history.
Shares were trading about $58 this morning.
Financial experts are saying people are pretty interested in Visa because well, most people sure like their...
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(Regarding potential recession)
What is best to do? Save? Pay off debt?
I have a decent sized tax refund coming and I could really use some SOUND advice.
I've been told in the past that it's better to save your money and pay the minimum on your credit cards until they're paid. That way, you're...
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You can get gift cards to almost any store or Web site, for almost any good or service, so I suppose it was only a matter of time before someone created a gift card for something that leads to half of all bankruptcies — health care.
A Pittsburgh health insurer is selling Healthcare Visa...
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A couple of weeks ago I was checking in at the Citibank Rewards center --- you know, the place where you can use your rewards points to buy little gizmos and gadgets after you’ve hit your zillionth point (or at least it seems that way to me, since the stuff that looks interesting is always...
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A recent report from the American Bankers Association says that credit cards and debit cards are Americans' first choices when paying, while cash and checks combine for less than half of consumers' monthly payments.
Do you still use cash and checks? How often do you use credit cards and...
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I heard this: California has the nation's largest concentration of illegal immigrants.
Bank of America has begun selling credit cards to customers who lack a U.S. Social Security number or credit history, opening the business to undocumented immigrants.
The bank expanded the...
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