Suspicious Powder Found At American Express Headquarters
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Banks' 2008 Stock Options Turning Out To Be Most Lucrative Payouts Ever
The New York Times | LOUISE STORY | Posted 11.08.2009 | Business
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Banks cut bonuses last year and shifted more pay into stock and options from cash, a tactic that lawmakers supported for its emphasis on long-term per...
Women and Minorities Bit Players, But Gaining in Selling to America's Biggest Customer -- the Federal Government
Esther J. Cepeda | Posted 11.06.2009 | Chicago
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When it comes to stimulus-related government contracts for small business, women's business, and minority-owned businesses, there are but few happy campers.
Firing Customers: Are All Customers Created Equal?
Jenny Darroch | Posted 10.22.2009 | Business
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Even though customers are the reason you are in business, not all customers are worth retaining. A bad customer is one that will put the organization at risk financially.
Was Goldman Worth Saving? Reuters
Reuters | Rolfe Winkler | Posted 10.15.2009 | Business
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Thirty-three TARP recipients missed a scheduled dividend payment to taxpayers last month, according to the Treasury Department, including 18 banks tha...
Shine the Light on American Express as it Puts the Squeeze on Small Business
Susan Wilson Solovic | Posted 10.07.2009 | Business
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While American Express is spending bundles on marketing their brand, they are putting the squeeze on the small businesses they would like you to believe they want to help.
AmEx and NBC Shine A Light On Small Businesses (VOTE)
Posted 10.06.2009 | Impact
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American Express has partnered with NBC Universal for Shine a Light, a campaign to celebrate small businesses. The entrepreneurial spirit and resilien...
Is Credit Evil?
Don McNay | Posted 11.29.2009 | Business
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I've watched many people get in trouble with upside down car loans, second mortgages or high interest rate financing. Credit keeps many people from living within their means. Then a friend told me he was buying a large house.
Jeremy London Debt: Owes American Express $20,000
tmz.com | Posted Sep 28th 2009 1:00AM by TMZ Staff | Posted 11.28.2009 | Entertainment
Jeremy London has nine films in the pipeline and it looks like he could really use those nine paychecks -- because American Express is coming after hi...
Video: For TIME.com, the Video is Part of the Story
Andy Plesser | Posted 10.17.2009 | Media
Time.com has been building out its video library with a clear goal in mind: taking people to places they can't go without the video.
Credit Card Companies Plan To Shrink Limits For Millions Of Americans
Reuters | Juan Lagorio | Posted 09.28.2009 | Business
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NEW YORK (Reuters) - Millions of Americans have already seen their credit card limits shrink, and millions more face the same fate as lenders prepare ...
Eastern European Cyber Criminals Prey On U.S. Businesses
washingtonpost.com | Brian Krebs | Posted 09.24.2009 | Business
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Organized cyber gangs in Eastern Europe are increasingly preying on small and mid-sized companies in the United States, setting off a multi-million do...
Amex, Discover To End Credit Card Over-Limit Fees
AP | EILEEN AJ CONNELLY | Posted 09.12.2009 | Business
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NEW YORK — American Express and Discover customers will soon be free of fees for charging over their credit limits. The two companies said sepa...
Morgan Stanley Shortchanged Taxpayer By $400M: Report
businessinsider.com | John Carney | Posted 09.06.2009 | Business
This morning Morgan Stanley said it paid $950 million to repurchase warrants issued to the government as part of last fall's bank bailout program. So ...
7 Ways Credit Cards Can Rob You Blind
minyanville.com | Scott Reeves | Posted 08.07.2009 | Business
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It's difficult to rent a car or buy a plane ticket without a major credit card like Visa (V), MasterCard (MA), or American Express (AXP)....
Here's One of My Secret Tips on Landing a Job Fast! Nobody Wants to Talk About When Getting Less Money is Really More
Stephen Viscusi | Posted 07.18.2009 | Business
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Whether we are downsized or right-sized, unemployment in 2009 is not associated only with mid-level and lower-level jobs. It's an egalitarian phenomen...
Credit Card Companies Settle For Lower Balances
nytimes.com | DAVID STREITFELD | Posted 07.17.2009 | Business
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The banks were bailed out last fall, the automobile companies last winter. For Edward McClelland, a writer in Chicago, deliverance finally arrived a f...
Goldman, Banks Cheer Escape From TARP Restrictions
nytimes.com | ERIC DASH | Posted 07.12.2009 | Business
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None of the banks' executives crowed publicly, but some of their employees celebrated Tuesday night. At an outdoor cafe on Stone Street, near Goldman'...
TARP Repayment: Treasury Says 10 Banks Get To Payback $68B
AP | DANIEL WAGNER and STEVENSON JACOBS | Posted 07.10.2009 | Business
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WASHINGTON - The Treasury Department has approved 10 of the nation's largest banks to repay $68 billion in government bailout money. The department o...
AmEx Sues Courtney Love Over Unpaid Bill
E! | Posted 06.27.2009 | Business
Courtney Love is so big on plastic, she may have forgotten all about the paper. American Express on Wednesday accused the alt-rocker of spending hers...
Plastic Surgery
Ina Pinkney | Posted 06.20.2009 | Chicago
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I propose a new way of thinking about transactions that is based on paying cash as a bridge to connect human beings in relationships of service.
Your Credit Card Company is Spying on You
Carine Fabius | Posted 06.19.2009 | Business
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Let's start using debit cards and cash as much as we can to help f*#@! the credit card companies.
Credit Card Summit: "Charge!"
Rick Horowitz | Posted 05.25.2009 | Business
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Wasn't the government shoveling billions of dollars at these very same banks to help them? And to pick this moment to stick it to the people with higher interest rates, and lower credit limits, and hidden fees?
HuffPost Readers Share Credit Card Laments; Banks Blame Economy For Rate Hikes
HuffingtonPost.com | Arthur Delaney | Posted 04.02.2009 | Politics
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Since our call for readers to send their unhappy credit-card stories, woeful tales of hiked rates and reduced limits have struck our inbox like The Bl...
Visa's New Ad Campaign, AmEx Returns To Roots
Huffington Post | Julie Satow | Posted 04.02.2009 | Business
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The Wall Street Journal is reporting that Visa is changing its "Life Takes Visa" advertising slogan. Its new $140 million ad campaign's slogan is "Mor...
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