View full post on Credit and Personal Finance Blog | Credit Karma Where Should I Stash $50,000?? “I have to meet a few of Mrs. RB40′s conditions before I can quit my corporate job. One of them is for us to save $50,000 in cash. (I negotiated down from 100k because I really think that [...]
View full post on Collections – Credit Card Credit card issuers quietly are testing new fees to help make up for other fee income wiped out last year when the CARD Act went into effect, one analyst contends.
View full post on Credit and Personal Finance Blog | Credit Karma **Today’s guest post is contributed by LearnVest.** Two recent findings about our country have our rose-colored glasses hitting the pavement. The first by the Pew Research Center showed that two-thirds of Americans believe that the class divide between rich and poor is now [...]
View full post on Credit and Personal Finance Blog | Credit Karma Sneaky Pizza Delivery Fees Are Here to Stay (and It’s Your Fault). “I love sleight of hand tricks. Occasionally, a coworker of mine named Fred will stop by my office and regale me with some truly amazing acts of prestidigitation. I’m always left [...]
View full post on Credit and Personal Finance Blog | Credit Karma The CFPB’s mission is “to make markets for consumer financial products and services work for Americans.” It’s already begun targeting credit scores and credit card agreements, and now has set its sights on abusive payday lending practices. So what does this mean and [...]
View full post on Collections – Credit Card Releases of allowances for bad credit card loans continued to plump banks’ bottom lines in recent earnings reports, but loss rates look set to bounce off record lows in the first quarter.
View full post on Collections – Credit Card Target Corp., which has tried for years to sell its credit card assets, is giving up for now, and it is spending more than $2.8 billion to divorce itself from JPMorgan Chase & Co.
View full post on Credit and Personal Finance Blog | Credit Karma What Is SOPA, and How Will It Affect You? “You may have heard a lot of talk lately about SOPA (which stands for the Stop Online Piracy Act). It started out as whispers between people on the Internet, now it’s getting major pushback [...]
View full post on Collections – Credit Card A year-to-year comparison of credit card debt shows that consumers in all 50 states reduced their outstanding balances last year, with averages falling 11% to $6,576 in December.
View full post on Credit and Personal Finance Blog | Credit Karma Reusing paper towels?! Hmmmm . “Learning how to do more with less, and how to get by with less, is a great skill to learn. What happens most of the time with doing more with less, though, is that it takes precious time [...]
