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

Preparing for the coming year

I was shocked to see a Labor Party politician on the TV news yesterday say that now we've had our retail therapy over Christmas (his words, not mine) we should all go off and book a holiday. I won't be taking his advice, I, instead, thought of how sad it is when people bend and compromise their values for the sake of power. Despite [more...]

Date: 2008-12-30 18:57:00

My Imaginary Vacation and Holiday Cheer

I’m officially on vacation this week and next… although I’m not exactly sure what that looks like when you don’t have a 9-5 job anymore! ... a reader, pointing out tips for the unemployed. Canadian Readers I often get questions about credit card ... credit cards: Top Cash Back Credit Cards in Canada Best Free Canadian Rewards Credit Card Award Goes to… [more...]

Date: 2008-12-24 14:29:40

Ultimate Debt Guide - Get Out of Debt With Debt Consolidation?

by Ash Ford How to get out of debt by not filing for bankruptcy or by signing up to a long-term debt relief plan which has the potential to push you ... truth about the credit card game is clear to me now and you’ll learn why numerous people remain in debt ... and be in over your head with loans, credit cards, car payments, mortgages etc. Finding a way [more...]

Date: 2009-01-15 02:47:14

The Poverty Business

Sorry if this appears to be an older article, and not latest headlines, just thought it was interesting - loki The Poverty Business Inside U.S ... into Byrider, Tsosie drove off, jubilant, in a 1999 Saturn subcompact she bought entirely on credit ... access to credit has put cars, computers, credit cards, and even homes within reach for many [more...]

Date: 2009-01-15 00:45:24

Guest Post: Financial Mistakes Couples should Avoid

Hi I’m Mary from Simply Forties! I write a blog about being a female in her 40s, finances, grown children, relationships, the environment, ... ). 2. Not taking credit-card debt seriously Carrying credit card debt is stressful. If one person ... on the other’s credit report. You do not want to find this information out when you are sitting [more...]

Date: 2008-12-22 14:00:07

Merry Christmas

by Bill Levinson (originally posted in 2007) Recent efforts to downplay Christmas range from retail stores that forbid their employees to mention the holiday to legal efforts to remove creches and other Christmas symbols from public places. While we understand the desire to avoid offending non-Christians with these displays, [more...]

Date: 2008-12-25 20:06:53

Not Exactly the Zombie Apocalypse

There was a lot of buzz and speculation this weekend about amazon.com’s big gold box video game sale that took place on Monday ... home from work so I could get in on a discounted copy of everyone’s favorite zombie game.  Credit card at the ready, I logged on to Amazon only to discover…”Imagine Teacher” was on sale.  Fantastic [more...]

Date: 2009-01-13 06:53:01

Leaving The Small Investor To Fend For Himself

INSURERS, FINANCIAL PLANNERS FALL IN WAKE OF CITI EXIT Just as the middle class of taxpayers believed itself to have been disenfranchised by the tax cuts of the last eight years, the group that constitutes the middle class of investors and retirement savers seem to be on the verge of being left without recourse to financial planning services [more...]

Date: 2009-01-14 18:11:55

Better Lucky Than Good

Last Saturday morning I realized shortly before heading down to the airport that I couldn’t find my wallet. I was running late, and could only do a brief search. As a precaution I locked out my credit card ... - the one place I hadn’t looked for it. Who puts a wallet down his sleeve? Quick calls the credit card company [more...]

Date: 2009-01-15 01:26:55

Hot Wholesale Tips You MUST Follow!

Hot Wholesale Tips You MUST Follow! 1. Thorough market research is the foundation for success Meticulous market research doubles your chances of ... and/or credit card fees (these can be a real profit killer), packaging costs and labor involved packaging ... t agree to use secure payment methods such as Escrow.com, Credit Card and Paypal Verified. Still [more...]

Date: 2009-01-15 14:32:05

Предсказания Кюнстлера на 2009 - США, Нефть, Геополитика, Путин

Спонсор месяца - #1 RX pharmacy affiliate program!Сайт дня (как попасть) - http://www.business-magazine.ru/There are two realities "out there" now competing for verification among those who think about national affairs and make things happen. The dominant one (let's call it the Status Quo) [more...]

Date: 2009-01-01 07:59:00

Sunday Money Roundup - Home Again Edition.

Well, we are in Boston now where we will be for the next 10 days or so. It’s been about 1.5 years since I was home, and it’s nice to finally be back ... her, the one with all the credit card debt, is not her anymore. I have said it before and will say it again - PaidTwice’s journey out of credit card debt is one that every person looking for [more...]

Date: 2008-12-21 14:00:29

Forecast for 2009

Introduction       There are two realities "out there" now competing for verification among those who think about national affairs and make things happen. The dominant one (let's call it the Status Quo) is that our problems of finance and economy will self-correct and allow the project of a "consumer" economy to resume in "growth" mode [more...]

Date: 2008-12-29 03:33:57

Save $1000 in 30 Days: My Take

So Ramit is having a Save $1000 in 30 days challenge. I started reading the tips he had and so far I really don’t see how I will be saving according to his rules. I think this is set up for people who have not already been frugal in their lives since if you were already doing the things he writes about then you would not be saving any addtional [more...]

Date: 2009-01-12 12:03:11

How to Become Debt Free using 6 Powerful Tips?

by Finance-Experts-Team It does not matter if you are a beginner or an expert business owner ... Your Credit Card Statements. On the one side, low interest credit cards offer an attractive offer ... one or more of them that consequently lead to a non-desired late in the pay and, therefore, your credit [more...]

Date: 2009-01-15 08:36:59

Get Out of Debt Fast With The Ultimate Debt Guide

by Ash Ford The Ultimate Debt Guide is a system that uncovers how you can become debt free without signing up to a long-term debt relief plan or ... . What are you looking for? Is it authoritative information on debt consolidation? debt consolidation loans? credit ... into debt and be overwhelmed with credit cards, loans, mortgages, car payments etc. [more...]

Date: 2009-01-15 02:49:47

Visa's black card shows rewards going upscale

Anna Von Blucher III uses the Visa Black card. It's been widely reported this week that credit card companies are becoming increasingly stingy ... credit card to be released in Kazakhstan, The real dirt on celebrity credit cards ... . But, epically sad, they will now only get a $200 credit. The increase in rewards slashing is blamed [more...]

Date: 2009-01-15 23:04:10

6 Powerful Easy Tips for Living Debt Free.

by Finance-Experts-Team It does not matter if you are a beginner or an expert business owner ... when paying the bill. Credit cards are notorious for using low interest as bait for new customers ... in the pay and, therefore, your credit rate would be negatively affected. Additionally, use [more...]

Date: 2009-01-15 08:38:53

Dealing With Income or Job Loss

by Doug West Multiple Income Streams Are More Important Than Ever The latest economy reports show more and more folks ending up on the unemployed rolls. The real statistics are most often worse than what is reported. My guess is that the situation will get Much worse before we see any improvement in the job numbers [more...]

Date: 2008-12-18 21:23:04

Cred-Ex's New Alt-Pay

New Alternative Payment Solution Cred-Ex Soon to be Available in the USSecaucus, New Jersey (PRWEB) January 13, 2009 -- Cred-Ex (www.Cred-Ex.com) ... not require consumers to input harmful personal data such as their credit card, bank account or Social ... through its patented process.Cred-Ex will grant instantaneous credit to consumers online on its [more...]

Date: 2009-01-13 20:27:00

Three Gas Rewards Credit Cards

Gas costs are rocketing all over the U.S.A., which means that consumers are perpetually on the outlook for methods to counteract the unprecedented ... Dividend Platinum Select Contrary to  the Discover gas card, the Citi Dividend credit card provides ... credit card. Increasingly people are applying for these cards so that they can make cash back [more...]

Date: 2009-01-15 19:14:51

How to Lose (Reward) Points

Getty Images Reward programs: toasted or offering toasters? The Journal’s Jane J. Kim on vanishing credit-card rewards programs: Under pressure to cut costs and bolster profits ... -earned points: Rule No. 1. Miss a payment. Credit-card issuers are increasingly worried about rising [more...]

Date: 2009-01-14 15:11:05

4 Advantages of Loan for Bill Consolidation

4 Advantages of Loan for Bill Consolidation Subscribe To Our Feed Many Americans are deep in debts that they are not in a position to repay ... with all of them. For such people a bad credit card debt consolidation loan could advisable to club ... of loan consolidation may give you the advantage of lowered interest rates. The credit card [more...]

Date: 2009-01-15 03:30:54

Top 30 iPhone Apps for Organization and Productivity

So it’s almost the new year, and you want to start being more organized and productive, right? Well we’ve put together a list of great iPhone apps to help you manage your tasks, track your time, store passwords, and stay organized. With these 30 apps you can create to do lists, invoice for contract work, access your computer remotely, [more...]

Date: 2008-12-30 20:52:41

No Credit Mastercard

No Credit Mastercard Posted in Finance | January 15th, 2009 Even though there was a difference, commonly in favor of Visa, ... difference between themdifference between the two. To an individual going through bad credit issues, they probably won’t be concerned enough to care about whose credit card they are provide [more...]

Date: 2009-01-16 03:41:24

$100 Cash Back Bonus from Discover

It’s Free Money Friday! Yippee. Over the course of time, I’ve even started to look forward to the Friday article myself, ... Rewards Credit Cards Reshuffling My Whole Cash Back Credit Card Plan Discover Card Holiday Rewards $25 ... even though I already know what is coming! Right now, Discover Business Card is offering $100 [more...]

Date: 2008-12-19 14:29:25

Visual Communication And Video Publishing - Selected Tools And Web Services - Sharewood Guide Dec 22 08

Video publishers are in for some good news today. There is a new web service that lets you pull together multiple video feeds from sites like YouTube, ... -communication-tools-swg-intro.jpg Photo credit: iloveotto And if you love Post-it notes, I have an awesome ... your own TV channels by mixing content from around the web, and discover new videos [more...]

Date: 2008-12-22 09:46:59

Best 0% APR Credit Cards

Gone are the days when you couldn’t walk to your mail box without a credit card offering 0% on balance transfers or 0% on purchases hitting you in the face. With the recent credit crisis and all the bank failures, credit card issuers are holding onto their cards tighter and tighter. Despite the climate, there are still many 0% APR credit cards [more...]

Date: 2009-01-15 12:09:25

An Overview on Merchant Account Services

Did you know that you can improve your business through accepting credit cards by phone? This is true to the fact that carrying credit cards is both safe and more practical. Most people prefer to pay purchased items via credit cards rather than cash. Credit cards are very useful [more...]

Date: 2009-01-16 03:08:28

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