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New, interesting products (69)
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November 2008 Archives
In this week's round-up, we showcase blog posts around the Web that provide tips on saving money and avoiding debt on shopping.
This week's edition of my Criminal Charges series (Vol. XVII, for those of you keeping track) appears as a guest post on the Consumerism Commentary blog. Thanks, Flexo!
It's World Television Day, so join us in Taking Charge's weekly credit card round-up, where we celebrate wonderful, entertaining, mind-numbing television.
I wake up pre-sun, before the birds and before the noise. The day is yawning and so am I. My hands run over my face and then my quiet eyes and then I'm staring at my unforgivingly bright monitor. I skim the news, visit Perez and watch a few hip-hop videos from the '90s. Then, resentfully, I type the necessary characters to go to my bank's Web site to check my credit card debt.
Welcome to another edition of Criminal Charges, my ongoing look at illegal activities involving plastic. Today's round-up of credit card crimes is all over the place: we've got fraudsters at work and play, illegal plastic payments for a puppy and parking tickets and an ATM thief who decided to stop at Waffle House.
You no longer have to stroll past a Salvation Army donation kettle this holiday season with your head down because you're out of cash. A nascent program in El Paso County, Colo. will be the first Salvation Army chapter in the United States to allow donors to use their debit and credit cards at five contribution locations.
This week's blog round-up features educational posts that will help you with all things debt -- how to prevent it, how to get out of it, how it affects your credit score and even how to know when it's time to declare bankruptcy.
Whether you luxuriate in first class or are crammed in coach eating peanuts, Taking Charge would like to welcome you aboard the Money Hacks Carnival No. 38 -- the Aviation Month edition.
This week's assortment of credit card crime and fraud items shows that thieves may also focus on staple items in hard economic times, with stories that include crimes targeting supermarkets, a tobacco store and vending machines.
To celebrate powerful women and how far we have come, this roundup features posts from some of my favorite females in the personal finance blogosphere.
Kazakhstan, fictional home of the comic character Borat played in a 2006 movie of the same name by actor Sacha Baron Cohen, announced this week that its bank Kazkommertsbank will issue a status symbol like no other -- a diamond-inlaid credit card.
Welcome to the latest installment of my weekly collection of stories of credit card fraud and other crimes of the plastic persuasion. Today we have stolen breast augmentation and liposuction, a church secretary who took more than just dictation and some people who aren't above stealing from needy kids.
The 177th edition of the Carnival of Personal Finance has gone live, and the host was kind enough to include my ruminations about the Wall Street comeback of Randolph and Mortimer Duke.
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