Review: Financial Infidelity

Each Friday, The Simple Dollar reviews a personal finance book of interest. ... that can be the earliest cracks in the foundation of a marriage. A little withheld truth about a credit card debt ... some incredibly devastating tales of woe - suddenly discovered five-figure credit card bills, closets full [more...]

Date: 2008-08-22 14:00:37

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The End of Cash?

While it’s a bit premature to proclaim an end to cash-based society, I was recently reminded of just how plastic-dependent we’ve become ... Credit Card » We’re Homeless… » Save 5% on Gas Purchases With the Discover More Card ... chosen to arm their flight attendants with handheld credit card readers and subject themselves [more...]

Date: 2009-01-12 18:37:56

56,000 More Victims of Heartland Breach

About 56,000 members of Suncoast Schools Federal Credit Union have been notified that their debit card accounts were exposed to fraud. It is the latest casualty of last year's breach of Heartland Payment Systems, one of the country's largest credit card processors, where information from more than 100 million credit and debit card transactions was exposed. Not until the end of May did Suncoast discover that some of its customers who use Visa Check Cards could be in danger. [more...]

Date: 2009-06-18 23:04:00

Banks Agree to Wipe Out Up to 40 Percent of Credit Card Debt But Watch Out.

Credit card lenders include Discover Financial Services LLC, Bank of America Corp., Citigroup Inc., JPMorgan Chase & Co ... with the help of the National Foundation for Credit Counseling, Consumer Federation of America and the Financial Service Roundtable to start the process of creating a debt solution, other than [more...]

Date: 2008-10-31 15:51:17

I have a new 0% credit card

clownfish2 Before you close your browser and stop reading, let me explain… I have my credit card payments set-up for auto-bill pay ... goes wrong.  About 6-months ago, I received my statement for my Bank of America credit card ... up, and immediately went online to begin looking for a new 0% rate card. 0% Discover Card I had heard really great [more...]

Date: 2009-01-07 11:29:54

Another thing I didn’t know about credit cards

I just caught up reading this month’s issue of Money Magazine. They had a quick little blurb called “What not to buy on credit.” It turns out that credit card companies are doing a bit of actuarial research and have discovered that they can identify credit risks in some non-traditional ways: where you shop. According [more...]

Date: 2008-12-03 16:43:00

Tips for Mortgage Refinancing and Debt Consolidation

Many people discover that their credit card debt is out of control when they get their monthly bank statement ... your balance over-the-limit fees. It’s time to consider debt consolidation to save your money - credit card balance transfer, home equity loan or mortgage refinancing. One of the best ways to obtain [more...]

Date: 2009-01-08 03:48:15

Gas Credit Card - Discover Open Road

#fullpost{display:inline;}Today we present Discover's Open Road gas card that earns rewards every time we use it at the pump and anywhere else. In fact this is one of the best gas credit cards available in the market [more...]

Date: 2008-12-26 16:01:00

Credit Card Rewards

In 2008 we as usual had large tuition bills. We also got a new credit card the Citibank CashBack Rewards, ... Citibank Simplicity - $213.17 Discover - $82.84 Total cash back rewards was $1703.70.  Realize that the majority of our spending came from putting $20k on our credit cards for my DH’s tuition payments [more...]

Date: 2009-01-08 15:23:14

Mint.com iPhone App: Putting Money in your Pocket in Time for the Holidays

We’re proud to announce that our iPhone application launched today. If you’re a Mint ... Mint.com account, sign up now. Add your bank, credit card, loans and investment accounts ... . Discover the comfort and joy of having access to your financial information anywhere, anytime — [more...]

Date: 2008-12-20 01:21:08

Ten For Tuesday (January 6, 2009)

1. First off, check out this resource I discovered a couple of days ago. It’s called NewMogul.com ... . 6. Lazyman has some tips on how to have a successful 2009. 7. Tricia wrote about credit card offers on college campuses. She said, “I have come to realize that whenever you get a credit card through [more...]

Date: 2009-01-06 17:55:07

Obama Advice - Credit Card Debt Consolidation - How to Eliminate Your Bad Credit Debt Consolidation

Amazon.de Widgets The most ordinary difficulty of debtors is their unrestrained debts and then hunt discover for a way to hold these debt issues. While attractive debts, grouping never intend that the termination would be so devastating. At nowadays circumstances obligate them to modify go for binary debts thusly crescendo their burden. However demise the think strength be, debts should be unnatural and condemned according to the power to repay. [more...]

Date: 2009-09-10 14:21:37

Merry Christmas From My Two Dollars.

Happy Holidays to all you guys who make writing this site such a joy. Hope you have a fantastic day! Discover More Card - 5% to 20% Cashback Bonus at Online Retailers, Up to 1% Unlimited Cashback ... Christmas!Getting Ready For Christmas Already?It’s The Dreaded “After Christmas” Credit Card Bill Time.I Did [more...]

Date: 2008-12-25 14:00:04

Sunday Review #52 - From Eating on $1 A Day to Teaching Kids about Saving Money

#fullpost{display:inline;} ... DirectGas Credit Card - Discover Open RoadWorld's Largest Ice Santa ClausNovember's Best of FIRE Finance [more...]

Date: 2008-12-29 04:59:00

Yet another credit card offer

Well, either the economy isn’t as bad as its cracked up to be or Wall Street doesn’t care that I was out of work for two months. I got an offer for a Discover card in the mail today. [more...]

Date: 2009-01-14 03:24:20

Thursday Options Update: PCLN, DFS, DNA, HBC, CAT & CX

Priceline.com (PCLN) – Shares in online retailer have been on the rise for about the last week rising today to $71.33 ... scurrying to cover net short positions via the stock. Discover Financial (DFS) – Along with its announcement of higher than expected quarterly profits, the credit card company said it had applied [more...]

Date: 2008-12-18 17:59:17

Alert: AdWords Phishing Email

phishing is the criminally fraudulent process of attempting to acquire sensitive information such as usernames, passwords and credit card details by masquerading as a trustworthy entity in an electronic ... have trust of a business vendor, when we don’t have clues to discover these fraud. For example [more...]

Date: 2009-01-11 09:34:01

Sacred

  Yesterday I took an abstract acrylic class with artists Mimi Little  (see here too) through the Calvert Artists' Guild ... with the edge of a credit card or embosser.  Do not get the GAC 100 on the back of the transfer.  Either ... .  It was great!  I seldom take classes, preferring to discover what is possible on my own [more...]

Date: 2009-01-11 13:18:32

Lose Weight, Get Rich: Write it Down

Lose Weight, Get Rich: Write it Down July 10th, 2008 I discovered yesterday, to my consternation, that a tall skim latte has 100 calories ... progress toward your financial goals. Unless you crunch the numbers with a credit card payoff calculator and figure out how much that interest really costs, you’ll continue to run up debt. See [more...]

Date: 2008-07-10 14:53:44

Discover The Benefits Of Securing Your Credit Card Online

It is a fact of life that that the cost of living in today’s society is an expensive one. (...) [more...]

Date: 2009-01-15 00:46:35

Does Paulson Have Any Idea How to Spend Our $700 Billion?

Does anyone else get the funny feeling that we’re going to discover very soon that the $700 billion has been spent and no one is quite sure what it ... Express, now that it has been characterized as a bank, as well as into the credit card, auto loan [more...]

Date: 2008-11-13 21:43:44

Satuday, June 21, 2008 UNDISCOVER DISCOVER CARD Since DISCOVER CARD has decided to plant an unauthorized ad on this blog, ... their services. Report: Discover Card Category: Credit & Debt Services Discover Card ripoff Salt Lake City ... in existence. Discover Card is notorious for skirting, when ever possible, the Fair Credit Act. In fact, [more...]

Date: 2008-06-20 22:47:36

Getting out of credit card debt. My story.

As a person who got himself into a large amount of credit card debt at an early age, ... to have amassed a total cumulative credit card balance of over $17,000. I was at a different point ... MasterCards, a Discover card, and several department store credit cards. Living beyond my means [more...]

Date: 2008-12-22 07:42:08

Biodegradable Credit Cards - Disintegrate Spending With This Green Discover Card

(TrendHunter.com) A lot of credit card companies are jumping on the greenwagon by offering affinity cards that kick back a portion of their fees to green organizations. Now Discover has launched the first truly green card--one… [more...]

Date: 2009-01-02 19:59:53

uh, From Smiling Coffee Vendor to Terror…

uh, From Smiling Coffee Vendor to Terror Suspect , the most bizarre part: In April 2008, according to bankruptcy records, he began using a Discover card. May 2008: a Shell card. June 2008: five new credit cards. July 2008: three more, including ones from Sony and Radio Shack. August 2008: two more. He would later report that his monthly expenses were $1,108, including $450 in rent and $390 for food. His stated income was only $800. … In March, Mr. Zazi filed for bankruptcy. [more...]

Date: 2009-09-26 08:47:03

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