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	<title><![CDATA[The Critics and the Credit Cards]]></title>
	<url>http://www.huffingtonpost.com/christopher-brauchli/the-critics-and-the-credi_b_156086.html</url>
	<abstract><![CDATA[<p><strong>Having more credit than money,<br />
Thus one goes through the world.	</strong><br />
-Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, <em>Claudine von Villa Bella (1776)</em></p>

<p>It's tough to be a credit card. Everyone worries about the consumer whereas no one seems to worry about the credit card even though it is subject to unending criticism. The cards' acts of kindness are legion and have been written about in this space and elsewhere repeatedly. Indeed, according to the <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2008/12/27/opinion/27sat3.html?_r=1&amp;scp=1&amp;sq=Curbing%20Credit%20Card%20Predators&amp;st=cse"><em>New York Times</em></a>, in the first half of...</p>]]></abstract>
	<taxonomy><![CDATA[Business]]></taxonomy>
	<date_published>2009-01-08T10:21:00-05:00</date_published>
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