Posted on Monday, 29th June 2009 by Sam
There was a time when Gold credit cards were considered to be elite. Soon after that, it was platinum cards. Now, both gold and platinum cards are widely accessible and there is not much prestige attached to them anymore. Currently, the most prestigious, elite and exclusive credit cards available in the market are black credit [...]
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Posted on Tuesday, 23rd June 2009 by Sam
Is the economy on the brink of recovery? It’s tough to tell, but there are some positive signs we are seeing. Take for example the bailout money paid to the banks. The Federal Reserve recently gave permission to ten of the financial institutions that received bailout money to pay it back. American Express was one [...]
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Posted on Tuesday, 16th June 2009 by Nicole
If you’ve watched TV at all the last few months, you’ve almost certainly have seen the commercial campaigns for Help With My Credit program, a project by Bank of America, Discover Capital One, and Citi “in cooperation with” MasterCard Worldwide. The Help With My Credit campaign ads usually feature an exuberantly happy individual that tells [...]
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Posted on Wednesday, 10th June 2009 by CreditCardGuru
Do you own a U.S. Airways Dividend credit card? Then you may be asking “Why did my U.S. Airways switch from Visa to MasterCard?” Well, it is very unusual for a financial institution to change from MasterCard to Visa and vice-versa. Historically, you only see this occur during a mergers and acquisitions, when the two [...]
Tags: airline credit cards, bank of america, barclaycard, mastercard, u.s. airways dividend, visa
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Posted on Sunday, 7th June 2009 by CreditCardGuru
As a follow-up to the first FreeCreditReport.com parody video we recently posted, here is another one the FTC put together (but we like their first one better).
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Posted on Friday, 5th June 2009 by CreditCardGuru
Let’s face it… most of us aren’t happy with our pay. Either we’re not being paid fair wages, crappy benefits… or both! But, these aren’t excuses to do what Cheryl Denise Green allegedly did. She was an employee at University of Maryland, Baltimore. According to authorities, she decided to supplement her salary by stealing nearly [...]
Tags: company credit card fraud, credit card fraud laws
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