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Entries for the ‘Credit Cards’ Category

Avoiding Bad Financial Products

As a professional financial planner, I often come across finanical products that are such bad ideas that I don’t even know how (or why?) someone got them to market. Usually the answer is flat out greed. A company willing to make a buck at the expense of its customers is always out there.
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Credit Card Rewards Catalog Update

Instead of sending me your rewards catalog, I’m just going to collect a table of information. The reason is that from the catalogs I’ve seen, comparing the items you can get is kind of a worthless process. Most catalogs don’t show a specific model number or other details that would be necessary to [...]

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Credit Reports and Credit Scores

Hey, a quick reminder that we are collecting rewards catalogs for any reward cards you might have. A lot of credit card companies make it very hard for people to find the reward information BEFORE they have the card. Help out your fellow savvy financiers by emailing us your catalog.
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New Information About Credit Card on Finance Gourmet

Over on the Finance Gourmet web site the first of out many part series on the ins and outs and tips and tricks for credit cards is up.  In this one we cover why you can be too cautious about credit cards by just having one.  We’ll tell you why you need at least 2 [...]

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