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Best of Personal Finance: Credit Where Credit Is Due Edition

Posted March 26, 2009 - 14:40 by Andrea Dickson

Personal Finance

Stacked.

Credit cards are fun for the whole family, until the bills start rolling in and you are expected to hand over your hard-earned money for the stuff you bought on plastic. In this week's Best of Personal Finance round-up, the web's PF bloggers look at debt of all kinds.

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Your Interest Rates Are About to Go Up

Posted July 2, 2008 - 12:38 by Andrea Dickson

Credit Cards

Have good credit? A low APR on your credit cards? Always pay your bills on time? That's not going to stop your credit card company from jacking up your rate whenever they feel like it.

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Credit Card Fees: Hidden and Otherwise

Posted December 23, 2007 - 15:14 by Nora Dunn

Small Business Resource Center, Credit Cards

please dip your credit card

Annual fees, grace periods, balance transfer options…it's a wonderful world of credit card jargon out there, and depending on your needs and planned uses for credit cards, it pays to look at your options. Following are the various ways in which credit card companies can get some money out of you and how you can avoid it.

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Huge tax-free investment returns

Posted September 28, 2007 - 16:47 by Philip Brewer

Personal Finance, Life Hacks

Kitchen pantry

What sort of investment return would it take to get you excited? You can get 5% or so on cash these days. The average return from the stock market runs in the 10%-12% range, depending on how you measure it. The fact is, though, you can pretty easily get 30% or more on investments that are not only very safe but come with built-in inflation protection.

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Lower Credit Card Rates? Just Ask!

Posted June 7, 2007 - 09:59 by Jessica Harp

Credit Cards

Asking is easier than begging!

When’s the last time you saw the interest rate and fees on your credit card go down? Yes, you read that right. Down. If you’re like most Americans, the likely answer to this question is never. Now, what if I told you that eliminating your fees and slashing your interest rate by five, ten or fifteen percent is as easy as picking up the phone and dialing the number on the back of the card?

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I'll have one Visa credit card, hold the APR

Posted 2 years ago by Andrea Dickson

Filed Under: Credit Cards

Why bother with middling details, like the interest rate? Just go ahead and get that card. Bank of America can help!

I do most of my banking at Bank of America. I don't adore Bank of America, but they've always been pretty good. Customer service is handy and friendly, and they've never really tried to screw me over. That's why I was surprised, while visiting my local branch, to see a big dry erase board behind the counter with the words "WANT 20,000 FREE AIR MILES? ASK US HOW!" written on it.

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The Dirty Secrets of Credit Cards

Posted March 7, 2007 - 16:02 by Paul Michael

Credit Cards

The average American has around 8 credit cards and is carrying roughly $9000 in credit card debt. If that’s not bad enough, the credit card companies are involved in what can only be described as a conspiracy to keep Americans in debt, permanently. Here are some of the biggest dirty secrets for you. You may want to sit down for these.

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I Don't Love Capital One - How to Get a Lower APR, or Possibly Not

Posted 2 years ago by Andrea Dickson

Filed Under: Credit Cards

I knew there was a reason that I chose capitalone-bites-the-big-one772 as my log in name for my online credit card account. It's because, well, Capital One bites. I'm a good customer of Capital One; I keep a revolving balance that should make them happy, and I pay my bill religiously.

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