Category : Credit Cards

Credit Cards: Plastic Your Way: Quick Serve Restaurants Serve Up Credit

Forbes.com: Plastic Your Way: Quick Serve Restaurants Serve Up Credit Fast Food and quick-serve restaurants are largely taking credit cards now."QSRs were resistant because traditional credit card processing added transaction time (fast food, remember?)," but banks rose to the challenge...More

Credit Cards: Watch out for those extra ‘nasties' lurking in 0% deals

FT.com / Your money - Watch out for those extra "nasties" lurking in 0% deals Do you play the 0% balance transfer game? The banks are losing their ability to sustain the practice and are starting to add hidden "nasties"...More

Personal Finance: Lost in the depths of debt

Personal Finance: Lost in the depths of debt Cutting up our credit cards helped us climb out of debt (we paid off our last non-mortgage debt Friday, by the way!), but they're not totally evil.Credit cards aren't the root of...More

College Students Taking on More Consumer Debt: Credit Card Issuers Market Aggressively

Credit: - The Hilltop - Life & Style Credit card issuers have been aggressivly marketing to college students for years. Now, with the average college student carrying five credit cards and $3,754 in consumer debt, it would seem that they're...More...

Fixed Rates Not So Stable

CBS News | Fixed Rates Not So Stable | January 7, 2005�20:30:12 Beware of those low-fixed rate credit card commercials you see on TV. What they don't advertise is that those "fixed" rates can skyrocket at almost any time for...More

Consumers unwrapping big credit-card bills

Consumers unwrapping big credit-card bills : If you charged your way through the holiday season you're certainly not alone. You may not be ready for the hidden costs of new credit card debt, though. ...there's an invisible edge to this...More