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Credit Card Bill of Rights

You have probably read in the papers, or heard on the news that The House of Representatives have passed a bill that everyone is calling the Credit Card Bill of Rights. It was sent to the Senate and if approved, it will continue its journey to the office of the president, where Barak Obama is [...]

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Tune into one of the greatest conversations I have heard in a long time. NPR’s To The Point with Warren Olney. Experts in credit card advocacy are being interviewed and saying what I have been saying for years about credit cards, and how the banks learned how to turn the mortagages into a lucrative and [...]

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Here is another great audio news article about the credit card companies that are now using interesting strategies to determine who gets more and who gets less credit these days. Click here to read or listen to the article in its entirety.

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We already know that the credit card companies have been preying on college students, and anyone else with a pulse. They are even more guilty of predatory lending than the mortgage lenders, and here is why. The credit card industry has an algorithm in which they can remain profitable even if a large percentage of [...]

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Americans are quickly approaching $1,000,000,000.00 (one trillion dollars) in credit card debt. The bondage this creates is painful and harmful to every family affected by it. We would like to bring you a short 1-2 minute video with a simple way you might be able to save some money on your credit cards, with a [...]

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I just discovered a wonderful website (http://brighterplanet.com/act) that offers a credit card with the sole purpose of funding renewable energy projects. Here is another link (http://brighterplanet.com/impact_estimator) to a page on their site that will show you how much your monthly spending will reduce carbon emissions. In addition, Bank of America is matching 50% until December [...]

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