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Credit-Card Fees: the New Traps (online.wsj.com)
A new federal credit-card law that takes effect Monday could erase billions of dollars a year in fees and interest charges paid by consumers. But card issuers are already deploying new tactics that... More
Submitted 26 days ago by gregplaysdrums | 0 Comments |
Credit Card Delinquencies Expected To Slow In 2010
(airamerica.com)
Consumers are expected to further improve their credit management in 2010, but unemployment will hamper the efforts of many Americans to make their credit card payments on time.
Submitted 3 months ago by lizchapman | 0 Comments |
New Credit Card Rules Activate
(www.truthdig.com)
Submitted 6 months ago by raquelbrown | 0 Comments |
How the Financial Crisis Continues to Hit the Poor the Hardest
(washingtonindependent.com)
Here’s one of the most disturbing points made in the Financial Times piece on banks being poised to earn $38.5 billion in overdraft fees this year: Poorest customers are getting hit the hardest by... More
Submitted 7 months ago by saramediaconsortium | 0 Comments |
James Boyce: Introducing PLASTIC: A Series of Blog Posts on the Fifty Year Anniversary of Calling Debt Credit (www.huffingtonpost.com)
These days, if you even suggest that Americans don't really need credit cards, you'll face a barrage of criticism -- the concept of carrying, using and even perhaps being defined by one's credit card... More
Submitted 9 months ago by cdoherty | 0 Comments |
Credit Card Debt for the Tween Set
(www.truthdig.com)
On Monday, Sen. Byron Dorgan took the chamber floor with visual aids to warn of the dangers of luring small children into bad spending habits with colorful credit cards. While we applaud his efforts,... More
Submitted 10 months ago by cdoherty | 0 Comments |
Congress Delays Credit Card Reform (washingtonindependent.com)
Submitted 10 months ago by blogladder | 0 Comments |
Merchants: New Yorkers Socked by Credit Card Fees They Can’t See
(www.publicnewsservice.org)
A coalition of merchants is mobilizing to urge key House members – in hearings this week – to go after what they call "the biggest credit card fee you've never heard of." It's known as the... More
Submitted 11 months ago by cdoherty | 0 Comments |
A house of credit cards
(therealnews.com)
Low wages, weak unions and consumer culture led to an economy built on a house of credit cards.
Submitted about 1 year ago by cdoherty | 0 Comments |
Christmas with No Presents :: No Impact Man enjoys the holidays without all the stuff
(www.yesmagazine.org)
If Christmas is about presents, then in 2007, my little family and I had no Christmas. I mean, we had the caroling and the uncle playing the piano and the cousins running around with my... More
Submitted about 1 year ago by robertharding | 0 Comments |
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