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Credit Card Companies Are Sending Out Early Holiday Gifts

Eva Norlyk Smith, Ph.D. | Posted 10.20.2009 | Business

Read More: Credit Card Reform, Credit Cardholders Bill of Rights, Credit Card Bill, Credit Card Companies, Credit Card Rates, Credit Cards, Credit Card Debt, Citigroup, Credit Card Fees, Business News
Eva Norlyk Smith, Ph.D.

While Congress is calling on credit card companies to stop hiking interest rates before the new Credit CARD act goes into effect, Citigroup just sent me a letter with a monstrous interest rate hike.

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Barney Frank On His Boyfriend, The Bailout, And Arlen Specter

GQ | Posted 07.09.2009 | Politics

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He's not a small-talk kind of guy. There's not even a hello or a handshake when I walk in. There is no acknowledgment of any kind. He's at his desk, s...

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Wildlife Pays the Interest on Credit Card Reform

Michael Markarian | Posted 06.26.2009 | Green

Read More: Poaching, Gun Owners of America, Tom Coburn, Credit Card Bill, Animals, National Parks, Wildlife, Green News
Michael Markarian

You're about 287 times more likely to be murdered, raped, robbed, or assaulted if you're outside a national park.

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Congress Says Yes to Guns in National Parks

Josh Sugarmann | Posted 06.20.2009 | Politics

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Josh Sugarmann

In its ongoing efforts to open up every possible space in America to gun toting, the NRA succeeded in attaching to the credit card bill legislation allowing loaded guns in National Parks and Wildlife Refuges.

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Credit Card Reform Stinks for Responsible Consumers (aka "Deadbeats")

Jill Schlesinger | Posted 06.20.2009 | Business

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Jill Schlesinger

Guess who's going to get screwed by the "Credit Card Accountability Responsibility and Disclosure Act"? Responsible people who pay their bills on time!

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Ryan Grim

House Splits Credit Cards From Gun Amendment

HuffingtonPost.com | Ryan Grim | Posted 06.19.2009 | Politics

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The House Rules Committee decided by voice vote Tuesday evening to split apart the credit card bill passed by the Senate Tuesday, slicing out an amend...

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A Consumer's Guide To The New Credit Card Rules

New York Times | Ron Lieber | Posted 06.19.2009 | Business

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At first glance, the sweeping credit card legislation that passed the Senate on Tuesday looks like a huge victory for consumers. The bill (and similar...

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Credit Card Bill Passes Senate Overwhelmingly

AP | ANNE FLAHERTY | Posted 06.19.2009 | Politics

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WASHINGTON — The Senate voted overwhelmingly on Tuesday to rein in credit card rate increases and excessive fees, hoping to give voters some bre...

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Obama Pushes For Action On Credit Card Bill

AP | DARLENE SUPERVILLE | Posted 06.14.2009 | Politics

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RIO RANCHO, N.M. — President Barack Obama urged Congress on Thursday to quickly send him legislation ending abusive credit card practices. But h...

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Credit Card Bill of Rights

Nancy Lublin | Posted 06.07.2009 | Business

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Nancy Lublin

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Ryan Grim

Credit Card Deal In Works As Senators Work Through Weekend

HuffingtonPost.com | Ryan Grim | Posted 06.04.2009 | Politics

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Senate negotiators worked through the weekend to come up with a bipartisan compromise on reform legislation that seeks to rein in deceptive credit car...

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Why Are Bankers Still Being Treated As Beltway Royalty?

Arianna Huffington | Posted 05.31.2009 | Politics

Read More: Credit Card Bill, American Banking Association, Mortgage Bankers Association, Chrysler Bankruptcy, Chrysler Banks, Credit Cardholders Bill of Rights, Chrysler, Bankers, Credit Card Rates, Credit Cards, Financial Services Roundtable, Cramdown, Senate Cramdowns, Dick Durbin, Carolyn Maloney, Transparency, Politics News
Arianna Huffington

How do the same banks that have repeatedly come to Washington over the last eight months asking for billions to rescue them from their catastrophic mistakes, somehow still "own the place"?

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House Passes Credit Card Bill That Helps Consumers

AP | MARCY GORDON | Posted 05.31.2009 | Business

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WASHINGTON — Riding a crest of populist anger, the House on Thursday approved a bill to restrict credit card practices and eliminate sudden incr...

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