Picking the card with the best rewards is only the beginning. It takes more legwork to use your points for maximum advantage.
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Tag Archives: Credit Card
A Regulatory Crackdown That Worked
Amid a host of overreactions to the financial crisis, the CARD Act put an end to some genuinely abusive behavior by banks.
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A Plastic Shopping Spree
A credit card went shopping in an Atlanta mall, while its owner was someplace else.
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Ding-Dong! Your Credit Card Company Comes Calling
Is that a real Viking peering through your window? No, it’s just Capital One exercising its contractual rights.
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An Expensive Return To Old-Fashioned Cash
After Target’s breach, a lot of people are making purchases with cash. It’s not logical, and probably not permanent either.
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Choosing A Travel Rewards Credit Card
If you still want to go anywhere after the holiday rush, here are some tips for choosing a credit card with travel benefits.
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Outflanking Mastercard And Visa
In business, as in war, it seldom pays to attack a powerful and well-entrenched adversary head-on. A successful assault is …
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Cleaning Up Those Automatic Charges
Changing credit cards provides a good opportunity to do a little housekeeping. About a year ago, I decided to cancel …
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Welcome To The Credit Card ‘Club’
If I were to join a nice club, or maybe a gym, I would expect to pay a membership fee. …
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AmEx Is Free To Terrorize Shopkeepers
The fees American Express charges merchants may often be steep and sometimes scary, but they are not anticompetitive.
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