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Credit Card Companies Prepare to Boost Interest Rates and Fees | Personal Finance Corner
Credit card companies are preparing to raise fees and boost interest rates.
http://www.allbusiness.com/personal-finance/4554345-1.html

Paulson and Bernanke to Revive Credit Card Lending
Paulson and Bernanke to Revive Credit Card Lending
http://useconomy.about.com/b/2008/11/12/paulson-and-bernanke-to-revive-credit-card-lending.htm

Security Fix - Hackers Test Limits of Credit Card Security Standards
The number, scale and sophistication of data breaches fueled by hackers last year is rekindling the debate over the efficacy of the credit card industry's security standards for safeguarding customer data. All merchants that handle credit and debit card data...
http://voices.washingtonpost.com/securityfix/2009/04/the_number_scale_and_sophistic.html

Internet Donations Benefit Credit Card Companies - The Caucus Blog - NYTimes.com
Another beneficiary emerges with Obama's success getting donations online
http://thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/07/08/internet-donations-aiding-credit-card-companies/

Group drafts rules to nix credit-card storage
The organization responsible for technical and best-practice standards in the payment industry plans to require the makers of merchant software to certify that their programs do not store sensitive data.
http://www.securityfocus.com/news/11496

The death of the credit card economy. - By Daniel Gross - Slate Magazine
The most revolutionary notion in commerce today is one of the oldest. If you want to buy something, you may actually have to pay for it. We are reverting from a "borrow and buy" economy to the "cash and carry" model of our grandparents.
http://www.slate.com/id/2198942/

credit-bailout-issuers-slashing-card-balances.html: Personal Finance News from Yahoo! Finance
Personal Finance, banking-budgeting
http://finance.yahoo.com/banking-budgeting/article/107200/credit-bailout-issuers-slashing-card-balances.html?mod=bb-creditcards

Ezra Klein - How the Credit Card Bill Helps Good Card Holders
I just got off the phone with an Oregon radio show that was doing a segment on the credit card bill. "Will this hurt our listeners who pay their bills," they asked? This is not a wise way of thinking...
http://voices.washingtonpost.com/ezra-klein/2009/05/how_the_credit_bill_helps_good.html

Senate Rejects Limit on Credit-Card Interest Rates - The Caucus Blog - NYTimes.com
Despite complaints that banks and credit card companies are gouging customers by charging outrageous interest rates, the Senate on Wednesday easily turned back an effort to cap interest rates at 15 percent.
http://thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/05/13/senate-rejects-limit-on-credit-card-interest-rates/?partner=rss&emc=rss

First Time Credit Card - Four Ways To Get Your First Credit Credit - No Credit Credit Cards
It can be tough finding that first credit card.Don't worry, there are many credit card companies who are willing to give credit to first timers.
http://credit.about.com/od/credit101/tp/firstcreditcard.htm

Credit card holders livid about 'rate-jacking' - CNN.com
It arrived in Rich Stevens' mailbox a few weeks ago: the notice that Citibank had "rate-jacked" the Visa cards belonging to him and his wife.
http://www.cnn.com/2008/US/12/17/credit.card.rates/index.html

When credit cards put you in jeopardy - CNN.com
Americans are drowning in debt.
http://www.cnn.com/2008/LIVING/personal/02/22/financial.security/

Credit card companies able to raise rates at will - Nightly News with Brian Williams- msnbc.com
In Sioux Falls, S.D. — 1,200 miles from Wall Street — the lending laws are as wide open as the skies. NBC's Anne Thompson reports.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/6786867/

Credit Card Late Fees - How Much Will Credit Card Late Fees Really Cost You?
Credit card late fees nearly tripled between 1994 and 2004, as credit card companies made up for lower interest rates. You may be surprised to learn how much credit card late fees really cost you.
http://seniorliving.about.com/od/manageyourmoney/a/creditcardfees.htm

12-03-2007 - Senate Credit Card Hearing to Focus on Unfair Interest Rate Increases : Senator Carl Levin: News Release
Senate Credit Card Hearing to Focus on Unfair Interest Rate IncreasesDecember 3, 2007
http://levin.senate.gov/newsroom/release.cfm?id=288169