The Credit Card Fair Fee Act of 2008 has come into legal force, promising financial relief for both retailers and their cards using customers. The new legislation is expected to curb credit card interchange fees or at least make them fairer.What is a credit card interchange, also called transaction, fee, when is it applied and […]

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 Credit card deals with cash back are usually referred to as the most applied-for plastics in the US. No big surprise. They are pretty aggressively advertised. Besides, a desire to be rewarded is a quite natural trait of human nature. You do not have to do anything but make purchases with your cash back card […]

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 Yesterday when checking my organizer for the next week’s plans I looked at the date, and guess what… I’ve suddenly realized that it’s just 3 weeks left before summer is here! I love summer. Everybody does. Summer is the season of vacations and trips. Summer… beach, a lot of sun, sand, light sea breeze… That’s […]

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 Remember that “Pimp My Ride!” show on MTV with Xzibit, if I didn’t mess up with his name? My son was watching it the other day, I saw it out of the corner of my eye. And what I think of all that is that you can pimp your ride not through replacing your old […]

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 There are two inevitable things in America – death and taxes, you know. And some people at times would rather choose the first. A federal income tax in the US eats up quite a sufficient part of your earnings. Russians, for instance, have 13% income tax rate. But still the tax evaders’ rate is pretty […]

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 With this century’s modern technologies and numerous devices that hasten our pace of living, time flies with the speed of light. High speed internet, high speed trains, high-speed everything… Sometimes it seems that your life can run by in a flash. But actually, all those high-tech devices are meant to make our life easier and […]

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 Doing sports these days doesn’t just say that you want to be healthy and keep fit, this might also mean that you keep pace with popular trends. And sports are definitely one of them. As for me, when I was a kid I used to play as a quarterback in a school football team. Now […]

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 In my previous post I touched upon the issue of green credit cards. They hit the charts of the best selling credit cards of 2007, and ranked second. I have looked up some information on this type of cards to figure out whether they are really so popular among credit consumers. So, this post is […]

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 Discover card has to get creative when trying to lure customers over to their side of the fence.  Competing against the big names - MasterCard and Visa is no easy task, but Discover has come up with a clever rewards program that just might make more people see the Discover card as a better option for their credit […]

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 We play a lot of Texas Hold ‘em at my house.  When we don’t have the gang over for our bi-weekly card night, we’ve probably got the World Series of Poker playing on the tv. 
In other words- we’re big poker fans around here and can’t seem to get enough of it.  We joke all the […]

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