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7 Ways Credit Cards Can Rob You Blind

minyanville.com | Scott Reeves | Posted 07.07.2009 | Business

Read More: Credit Card Reform, Credit Card Rates, Mastercard, Visa, American Express, Bank of America, Credit Card, Credit Card Debt, Business News

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)....

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Plastic Surgery

Ina Pinkney | Posted 05.20.2009 | Chicago

Read More: American Express, Diners Club, Visa, Interchange Rates, Debit Cards, INA's, Banks, Discover, Mastercard, Credit Card Industry, Credit Card Fees, Chicago News

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.

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Free Visa -- and MasterCard, Too

Jim Jaffe | Posted 05.19.2009 | Business

Read More: Mastercard, Banking Crisis, Banks, Credit Crisis, Credit Cards, Business News

There's a word that describes people who spend money -- whether they use cash or cards. That word is customer.

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Your Credit Card Company is Spying on You

Carine Fabius | Posted 05.19.2009 | Business

Read More: Mastercard, Banks, Obama, Credit Cards, Credit Card Debt, American Express, Visa, Credit Card Industry, Financial Crisis, Business News

Let's start using debit cards and cash as much as we can to help f*#@! the credit card companies.

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Credit Card Summit: "Charge!"

Rick Horowitz | Posted 04.24.2009 | Business

Read More: American Express, Obama and Credit Cards, Bank of America, Credit Cards, Visa, Barney Frank, Bank and Credit Cards, Citibank, House of Representatives and Credit Cards, Bank Bailout, Mastercard, Barack Obama, House Financial Services Committee, Obama Administration, Business News

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?

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Separated at Birth, Part II

Jim Lichtman | Posted 04.24.2009 | Home

Read More: Bank of America, Sugule Ali, Congress, Chase, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, President Obama, Visa, Apr, Bofa, Somali Pirates, Credit Card Executives, Fox News, Americans, Hillary Clinton, Mastercard, Credit Card Ethics, Home News

Here we go again! What's the difference between Somali pirates and credit card executives? If you ask a growing number of Americans - many of whom...

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Credit Card Breach: Visa, MasterCard, American Express, Discover Customers Vulnerable

New York Times | ERIC DASH and BRAD STONE | Posted 01.21.2009 | Business

Read More: American Express, Credit Cards, Heartland Payment Systems, Visa, Discover Financial, Credit Card Breach, Discover, Mastercard, Business News

Heartland Payment Systems, a major payment processing company, disclosed a data breach on Monday that potentially exposed tens of millions of cred...

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MasterCard To Issue Diamond-Studded Cards

Financial Times | Jeremy Grant | Posted 10.31.2008 | Business

Read More: Mastercard Diamond, Mastercard, Credit Cards, Credit Card Diamonds, Business News

Markets are plunging, banks are collapsing and talk of recession is all about, but the global gloom is not stopping the launch of a MasterCard credit ...

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Mr. Bill Returns (In One Piece) To Pitch A Debit Card

New York Times | Posted 06.03.2008 | Business

Read More: Mr. Bill Mastercard Ad, Mr. Bill MasterCard, Saturday Night Live, Mr. Bill, Mastercard, Business News

MasterCard executives have found a new poster boy for the angst-ridden economy: Mr. Bill. The small clay figure that appeared in "Saturday Night Live...

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Security Breach Exposes 4.2M Credit, Debit Cards

AP | David Sharp | Posted 03.18.2008 | Business

Read More: Hannaford, Hannaford Bros, Security Breach, Credit Cards, Debit Cards, Supermarket Chains, Mastercard, Business News

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...

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How The Press Failed Readers On The Changing Credit Card Industry

Columbia Journalism Review | Dean Starkman | Posted 03.13.2008 | Media

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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...

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Visa's IPO: The Next Big Thing

Huffington Post | Posted 02.25.2008 | Business

Read More: MasterCard IPO, Biggest IPO, Kraft Food, AT&T, Sec, Largest IPO, Visa, Securities and Exchange Commission, Mastercard, Visa IPO, Initial Public Offering, Business News

On Monday, Visa announced that it was looking to raise $19 billion from its initial public offering (IPO), which would make it the largest in U.S. his...

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