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Four Ways to Get Your Money Back from a Credit Card Purchase
April 27, 2010 – 7:31 pm | One Comment
Four Ways to Get Your Money Back from a Credit Card Purchase

The Credit CARD Act that recently kicked into high gear this year is often hailed as one of the more consumer-friendly legislations passed on credit card reform, but it’s important to give due credit to …

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Celebrity Credit Card Debt
April 21, 2010 – 8:22 am | 3 Comments
Celebrity Credit Card Debt

The rich and famous lifestyle sometimes hides a shocking and shameful secret: hundreds of thousands of credit card debt. On the outside, the gliteratti and clan of hypervisible celebs seem to be living large and …

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Credit Score Strategy: Paying in Full vs. Credit Limit Increases
April 14, 2010 – 9:50 am | 3 Comments
Credit Score Strategy: Paying in Full vs. Credit Limit Increases

There’s this pervasive myth going around that paying off your credit card balance in full each month will score you points (literally) with TransUnion, Equifax and Experian. The fact of the matter is that it …

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Credit Cards Going Extinct? We Don’t Think So
April 7, 2010 – 6:26 am | No Comment
Credit Cards Going Extinct? We Don’t Think So

Okay, okay, we usually don’t hesitate to declare credit cards dead (Five Futuristic Ways to Pay without Credit Cards and Death of the Credit Card Signature) but our musings are more like utopian “what-ifs” from …

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