The credit card grinch who stole Christmas
The new president will face an unfamiliar problem: Lenders are discouraging Americans from pulling out their plastic.
Monday, Nov 3, 2008 7:12 PM UTC 23Politics 2008 Elections, Globalization
Credit Cards
Politics 2008 Elections, Globalization
What to do with your money now
In the first installment of a new series, "Talk to Me Like I'm 5," expert Ilyce Glink explains what all Americans should be doing with their finances.
Wednesday, Oct 29, 2008 9:54 AM UTC 55Life U.S. Economy, Great Recession
Payback’s a bitch
Margaret Atwood talks about the perils of debt -- and imagines a utopian future without greed.
Tuesday, Oct 28, 2008 11:15 AM UTC 31Entertainment Canada, U.S. Economy
Mortgaging our credit card debt
For a few years, the housing bubble helped Americans pay their plastic bills. Not anymore.
Monday, Jun 2, 2008 6:16 PM UTC 30Politics Globalization
Have we fallen behind our parents?
Author Nan Mooney argues that the middle class is slipping, and fixing it is going to take more than cutting out lattes.
Wednesday, May 14, 2008 11:08 AM UTC 169Life U.S. Economy, Credit Cards
What will YOU do with your fiscal stimulus check?
Go out and buy a new TV, to save the economy? Or squirrel the money away, to save yourself?
Friday, Feb 8, 2008 4:39 PM UTC 281Politics U.S. Economy, Globalization
The plastic ATM machine
Credit card debt rose sharply in November. But what's a trillion dollars, here or there?
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Life shouldn’t have to take Visa
What's so wrong with cold hard cash?
Monday, Oct 8, 2007 4:20 PM UTC 43Politics Globalization
Dollars from deadbeats
If bankrupt Americans are really scheming wastrels, why does the credit industry love them so?
Monday, Sep 10, 2007 9:42 PM UTC 20Politics Globalization
More fun with subprime and credit cards
Credit card delinquencies are up and bankruptcy protections are down. Happy days for usurers!
Thursday, Sep 6, 2007 3:57 PM UTC 26Politics U.S. Economy, Globalization
Credit card companies swoop on subprime borrowers
Can't make your mortgage payment? Check your snail mail for some new plastic.
Wednesday, Sep 5, 2007 6:31 PM UTC 13Politics U.S. Economy, Globalization
The virtual moneylender
A new Web site allows you to borrow money from strangers in cyberspace. It may even free you from credit card debt and the usurers at the local payday loan center.
Monday, May 22, 2006 1:00 PM UTC 41Entertainment Credit Cards
The losing generation
A new book says that minimum-wage jobs and mounting debt are burying America's youth.
Tuesday, Feb 21, 2006 12:37 PM UTC 129Life Academia, Credit Cards, College
Generation bankrupt
They got hooked on credit cards when the good times seemed forever. Now the bills are due.
Thursday, Apr 12, 2001 7:30 PM UTCEntertainment Great Recession, Credit Cards
The real quid pro quo in Washington
While Congress holds hearings on the Marc Rich pardon case, it should also take a look at its own payoff to credit card giants in passing the bankruptcy bill.
Tuesday, Mar 6, 2001 9:00 AM UTCPolitics Credit Cards
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