Credit card companies beware: Congress is watching. A flurry of bills is in the works in the House of Representatives and the Senate that would rein ...
CNN Money | Jessica Dickler | Posted 05.27.2008 | Business
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Washington Independent | Mike Lillis | Posted 04.21.2008 | Business
Congressional lawmakers of both parties have found something to agree on: The credit card industry, they say, has evolved beyond the scope of regulati...
AP | David Sharp | Posted 03.18.2008 | Business
A security breach at an East Coast supermarket chain exposed more than 4 million card numbers and led to 1,800 cases of fraud, the Hannaford Bros. gro...
John Tepper Marlin | Posted 03.18.2008 | Business
The Fed has responded with lower interest rates and bailouts of overstretched Wall Street firms. How should the Congress and the next president be responding?
James Boyce | Posted 03.17.2008 | Business
A little economic trauma is exactly what this country needs for everyone to realize what the last eight years has done to this land, once the largest economy in the world.
Columbia Journalism Review | Dean Starkman | Posted 03.13.2008 | Media
One of the paradoxes of the business press is that while everyone should read it, since we all live in the economy, not everyone does. In fact, most p...
Reuters Via CNBC | Posted 03.04.2008 | Business
U.S. regulators said they are watching credit cards and commercial construction loans for signs they may be the next trouble spots as strained financi...
Michael Russnow | Posted 03.03.2008 | Business
It is time for our representatives in Washington to pass a law that puts the responsibility on those who accept credit cards to make certain that the card holder is the person in whose name it is issued.
John Tepper Marlin | Posted 02.28.2008 | Business
Credit Slips says that Rep. Carolyn Maloney's bill -- credit cardholders bill of rights -- is the most important credit card legislation in 40 years.
Fortune's Stanley Bing | Posted 02.27.2008 | Business
I just had what I believe to be a very satisfactory discussion with a nice woman who has not yet gone postal at the Postal Service.
John Tepper Marlin | Posted 02.26.2008 | Business
Rep. Carolyn Maloney describes her bill as "comprehensive credit card reform legislation" that ends "abuses that unfairly hurt consumers."
AP | MADLEN READ | Posted 02.25.2008 | Business
NEW YORK — Stocks are shaky, credit is tight, the economy may be tipping into a recession. Not the best of times to be going to the markets for ...
New York Times | VIKAS BAJAJ, LOUISE STORY | Posted 02.12.2008 | Business
The credit crisis is no longer just a subprime mortgage problem. As home prices fall and banks tighten lending standards, people with good, or prime,...
Joie Jager-Hyman | Posted 01.25.2008 | Business
Unlike a house, you can't sell your education to try to pay down your debt.
Bloomberg | Posted 01.24.2008 | Business
The Capital One Financial Corporation, the credit card issuer, said Wednesday that fourth-quarter profit fell 42 percent as more borrowers failed to r...
AP | Mark Jewell | Posted 12.31.2007 | Business
The loss or theft of personal data such as credit card and Social Security numbers soared to unprecedented levels in 2007, and the trend isn't expecte...
AP | RACHEL KONRAD, BOB PORTERFIELD | Posted 12.23.2007 | Business
Americans are falling behind on their credit card payments at an alarming rate, sending delinquencies and defaults surging by double-digit percentages...
AP | RACHEL KONRAD and BOB PORTERFIELD | Posted 12.23.2007 | Business
Americans are falling behind on their credit card payments at an alarming rate, sending delinquencies and defaults surging by double-digit percentages...
AP | Marcy Gordon | Posted 12.04.2007 | Business
Congress is renewing its scrutiny of the credit card industry, as some lawmakers denounce the practice of raising customers' interest rates when their...
Danny Schechter | Posted 12.03.2007 | Business
In order for the economy to function, for consumption to continue and profits to keep flowing, people have to believe that everything's all right. They want remedies modeled after Alka Seltzer. Put one tablet in water. It fizzes. You drink and feel better in minutes.
Deborah Emin | Posted 11.21.2007 | Business
We need to kill the credit industry. It is a plague which will not die at its own hand.
AP | Michael Liedtke | Posted 11.08.2007 | Business
Visa Inc. will pay American Express Co. up to $2.25 billion to settle a lawsuit alleging Visa illegally stifled competition to protect its position as...
Motley Fool | Selena Maranjian | Posted 10.18.2007 | Business
A bad movie can be entertaining. A review of a bad movie almost always is. But a bad credit card? Well, I can find some humor in that -- but it's alwa...
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WASHINGTON — Rescue legislation sailed through the House on Wednesday aimed at...
McClatchy Newspapers | David Goldstein | Posted 07.21.2008 | Business