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• Banks won’t change til they have to

  
  Get Credit Cards — Authority: 159
  A new report says even though new laws are coming soon, credit card companies are nowhere close to complying with the stricter regulations. In fact, the Pew Charitable Trusts found that 100% of the cards it investigated would be illegal under the new requirements: “Since passage of the Credit CARD Act, we found that ...
  1 week ago

• Credit Card Chicanery

  
  Get Credit Cards — Authority: 159
  Congress blundered badly when it gave the credit card industry as long as 15 months to phase out the deceptive and predatory practices that were outlawed in a new law enacted in May. - Instead of backing away from exploitation, credit card companies have intensified it. For starters, they have driven up already ...
  2 weeks ago

• Subsidyscope: Something New Under The Budget Sun

  
  Capital Gains and Games — Authority: 700
  One of the frustrating things about working on federal budget issues is that nothing seems to change very much.  The same issues, the same data sources, the same organizations seem to be around year after year.  Even when theres a major disturbance in the fiscal force like Gramm-Rudman-Hollings or some other major ...
  3 weeks ago

• The credit card industry got greedy

  
  David Kirkpatrick — Authority: 144
  No surprise there. Credit is certainly a privilege and not a right, but the industry players have proven to be bad actors when operating without significant oversight. With the Credit Card Accountability, Responsibility and Disclosure Act scheduled to go into full effect over the next year — different provisions ...
  3 weeks ago

• Editorial: Last-Minute Credit Card Tricks

  
  NYT > Theater — Authority: 915
  Congress can end the injustices committed by credit card companies by moving up a deadline to phase out predatory practices, accelerating reform and helping consumers.
  3 weeks ago

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