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Living with credit
Visa is pulling out all the stops to promote itself as being inextricably tied with the upcoming Beijing Olympics. However, if you're traveling to China this summer to see the Games in person, you may not be able to use that Visa card as much as you might like.
Welcome to the eighth edition of the Finance Fiesta! It's been quite a festive week here at Taking Charge, and we hope you enjoy this showcase of some of the best posts from personal finance blogs. The Taking Charge team is based in Austin, Texas, so we thought we'd base our theme around our beautiful city's favorite hang-outs and landmarks. Austin's a great place to live and work -- we hope you enjoy our city!
Now that I've completed my series of credit card tales from Europe and warned you of everything from pay potties to overpriced ATM fees, I want to share some additional credit card travel tips -- this time from others.
This is the fourth installment of a week-long series documenting Emily's experiences with plastic in Europe. This time, she discusses surprise charges.
This is the third installment of a week-long series documenting Emily's experiences with plastic in Europe. This time, she discusses pay toilets.
A new survey has dubbed Las Vegas "Debt Central." However, when you're talking specifically about credit card-related debt, the same report shows that consumers living in far less glamorous places -- like Anchorage, Alaska, and Corpus Christi, Texas -- are far worse off than those in Sin City.
This is the second installment of a week-long series documenting Emily's experiences with plastic in Europe. This time, she discusses transportation issues.
While I was in Europe for two weeks I took endless notes in a journal, documenting my experiences with credit and debit cards abroad. Here is the first installment of things I learned and encountered while using plastic in Europe.
Now that I'm back from Europe, it's time to resume my weekly round-ups. This week's blog posts will teach you how to embrace a debt-free mindset, equip you with facts you may not know about credit cards and provide a fun list of money movies to watch this summer, among other things.
When you donate money to a presidential campaign with your credit card, you may think you are benefiting only your candidate of choice. That's not the case. Due to the massive amounts of credit card donations received in the current election season, credit card companies are also seeing green.
Consumers remain largely uneducated about credit scoring. That's unfortunate, since a new survey suggests that by informing themselves and taking a few easy steps, borrowers could save billions of dollars each year.
Going back to school after a few years in the workforce involves re-examining and rearranging your finances and coming up with new ways to entertain yourself, now that you’ve slashed that expense out your budget along with the carefree spending activities of the past.
A new survey of African-Americans finds they trust the police and government more than credit card companies.
Consumers awaiting final approval of the court settlement that will yield free TransUnion credit monitoring can sign up for discounted credit monitoring now, care of FICO score creator Fair Isaac. They'll need to act fast, though: Fair Isaac's 25 percent discount on its credit monitoring product is only available through the end of this month.
At first, the credit card purchases were innocent enough. But then, life happened, and the debt piled up.
Credit card spending at the heart of Ed McMahon's financial woes.
In the first three months of this year, both credit card debt and credit card delinquency fell, according to the latest quarterly credit card analysis from TransUnion. The major credit bureau is in an ideal place to spot credit card trends becuase it maintains a massive database of consumer debt records.
Think teenagers spend all their money on food and fun? Not anymore. According to a new poll about teens and personal finance, gasoline is now teenagers' No. 1 credit card expense -- surpassing clothing, which led in the previous polls.
Read this week's best credit-related posts from the blogosphere, covering everything from the McCains' passion for credit cards to the reality behind credit repair offers to the relationships consumers have with their credit cards.
It’s an obvious fact that debt puts a strain on your finances, but what wasn’t known until recently is that it can also put a major strain on your health. A new AP-AOL poll reveals that the more debt you have, the likelier you are to have chronic medical problems.
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