Credit Cards
Days like yesterday and today are why I write the Finance Gourmet. For those of you who didn’t see it, the Federal Reserve, or Fed cut interest rates to between 0% and 0.25%. All day today, the media has been droning on about what it means for consumers, homeowners, and the economy. Unfortunately, they are [...]
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Today, I got a notice in the mail regarding my Citibank credit card. Mind you, I chose this card a few years ago because of how its travel rewards worked. It paid off. We went to Hawaii this year. Combined with some hotel reward points, three plane tickets and a week in a nice resort [...]
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Save Some Money This Holiday Season Looking for some creative ways to save some money with the economy looking shaky and the holiday shopping season fast approaching? Here is one way to save some potentially big dough. Microsoft Live Search CashBack Microsoft is literally giving away money to get people to try out its new [...]
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That zero percent credit card offer might not be a good deal for you. Here is the trap, and how to avoid it.
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Use the new Credit Card Lab on Capital One’s website to make a great rewards card, or to compare other rewards cards.
The Fidelity Investment Rewards Visa Signature Credit Card is an intriguing offer with a generous 1.5% cash back offer and the standard 1 point per $1 rewards program. Details inside.
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Not too long ago, I wrote about monitoring your credit report on the non-blog Finance Gourmet site. In it I included a warning about the various services offering to “fix” your credit and lower you monthly payment. Now a much bigger site has an “insider” confession from just such an outfit. A little independent confirmation [...]
Several years ago when I was a wild-eyed, fresh out of college, computer guy, I got my first “real” job with a local company. The company had around a 100 employees or so which meant that the HR person was the Office Manager. On my first day, the Office Manager went through all the basics [...]
Capital One No Hassle Rewards Credit Card Catalog information.
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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 actually do [...]
