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Article Of The Day: Christmas In March For CC Companies

Here is an interesting article from the Columbus Dispatch. I hope you’ll take a few minutes and read it, but I thought I’d point out a few things that I found interesting frightening. According to Consumer Reports –Americans will charge 63.6 BILLION dollars on their credit cards during the holiday season –23% of those charges will not be paid of…

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Article Of The Day: 50 Cents Of Every Dollar? Charged To Credit Card

I was looking at Google News a few minutes ago, and I came across this article, over at Forbes.Com http://www.forbes.com/markets/feeds/ ap/2006/12/19/ap3268775.html I am not going to reprint the article, b/c I don’t want to run into “copyright” issues. But, I do want you to read the article and scroll down the the very, very bottom section. Please note the following…

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Credit Cards and College

I just stumbled upon this wonderful little bit of news, courtesy of the Statesman Journal is Salem, Oregon: College students are a ‘prime target’ for credit-card companies The best worst part of the whole article states, and I quote: Credit-card issuers also are striking partnerships with colleges for exclusive marketing privileges on campus, and many are gaining wider access to…

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