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Research, regulation, industry reports
Those sneaks -- they fooled even a Web-savvy guy like me into signing up for a "service" I didn't want. Thankfully, the U.S. Senate agrees with me that this is just plain wrong.
The Pew Charitable Trusts published a pretty damning report Wednesday about how credit card issuers continue to be "unfair or deceptive" with their products -- despite legislation set to curtail these practices in 2010.
Swine flu? Meh. Paying your bills? No big deal. When it comes to striking fear in the hearts of Americans, nothing does it like ID theft.
Holiday sales will be down this year, according to the leading retail trade association, with lackluster spending by consumers unlikely to get a boost from Christmas presents put on credit cards.
Some analysts predict that U.S. banks could find themselves in court -- forced to justify income earned from penalty fees.
Consumer confidence and consumer spending had generally walked hand in hand over the past 30 years -- sometimes rising, sometimes falling, but rarely straying too far from one another. That all changed somewhere in the middle of this decade, according to a new essay from economists with the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago.
Here's what Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke's speech today looks like in a tag cloud. Financial is BIG! Help is tiny.
The coverage of Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke's meaty speech yesterday rightly focused on his remarks about the overall economy. But he did give some insight into the Fed's actions regarding credit cards, and since we're CreditCards.com, I figured it would be worth presenting those remarks in depth here.
Legislative proposals in New Jersey and Illinois might restrict those pesky credit card offers plaguing students on college campuses. It also might force issuers to teach students about the risks of signing up. Will they pass?
When I learned last week about what may have been the world's largest data breach, I knew there were going to be potentially millions of victims. What I didn't expect is that I may be one of them.
In honor of this weekend's Super Bowl game, we've assembled a team drawn from dozens of the best players in the personal finance arena for the football-themed 189th edition of the Carnival of Personal Finance.
The Federal Reserve's periodic report on the economy shows continued problems.
Take a gander at the tag cloud made from the speech by one of the bailout program honchos.
While credit card charge-offs have gone up in the thrift industry, the increase is nowhere near the rate of increase from other types of loans.
As the economy nosedives, consumers are looking for new ways to manage their finances. One of those ways is with a prepaid debit card, which gives its users some of the benefits of having a bank account with none of the strings attached.
When men compulsively overspend, new research asserts, we're not simply being irresponsible. We're also responding to instincts our caveman ancestors developed to win mates. And it still works.
On this day in 1901, Walt Disney was born. In this week's credit card round-up, we celebrate Disney's hundreds of inspiring and heartwarming films that defined many of our childhoods.
We at CreditCards.com have, at no small expense, purchased telepathic cloud tag software that allows us to combine what a statement says, with what its writer was thinking. We've applied it to today's post-rate-cut Fed statement.
What do you call a blog's first birthday? A blogiversary? A blirthday? Whatever it is, wish us a happy one. Taking Charge, the blog of the CreditCards.com editorial staff, published its first item a year ago today.
Lots of corporate news today confirms that as credit card delinquencies rise in this sour economy, card issuers are tightening their lending standards.
Here's a look at the somber, even gloomy speech today on the worldwide credit crunch (which, by the way, is NOT a new General Mills breakfast cereal) from Federal Reserve Board Chairman Ben Bernanke -- in tag cloud format.
Researchers in Coventry, England, are saying a small segment of the population who, when presented with the option of making only the minimum payment instead of more on their credit card bills, choose to do so.
Classic holiday movie is worth watching for message about how banking and credit system works.
People going bankrupt just saved $25. The magic counseling certificate that unlocks the doors of the bankruptcy court should still cost $50, not $75, an executive of the United States Trustees has ruled. The administrative ruling also contains a reminder of an important lesson that everyone who deals with nonprofit agencies should remember.
More than a third of Americans say they spent rebates paying down credit card debt.
Here's the scariest credit card statistic I've seen this month: Nearly three in 10 American workers say they have more credit card debt than retirement savings, says a new poll.
Do you travel abroad? Don't count on one piece of plastic to carry you through your journey. International travelers are increasingly finding their U.S.-based credit cards may be refused, due to politics, merchant revolts or obsolescence.
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