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APex Credit cards

Sat, 30 Aug 2008 03:22:11 GMT

clipped by: Tinker1
clipper's remarks: An easy way to find the right credit card.

Clip Source: www.apexcreditcards.com

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We've made searching for a credit card easy. Choose from a wide selection of over 170 popular credit card offers.

Compare

Browse through our comprehensive line of credit cards to compare rates and features.

Apply

Once you've made your choice, click on the corresponding APPLY button and you'll be directed straight to the secure credit card application.

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US Credit Cards Compared

Fri, 22 Aug 2008 06:22:41 GMT

clipped by: purcxzqis
clipper's remarks: Compare over 300+ credit cards, including 0% offers and balance transfers. We provide you the tools and information to compare and choose the best credit card offer for your needs.Credit Card offers are displayed side by side so you can easily compare key factors such as interest rates, annual fees as well as other key features.

Clip Source: www.us-creditcardscompared.com

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Credit Card Debt: This Popping Bubble Is Really Going to Hurt

Sun, 17 Aug 2008 12:26:13 GMT

clipped by: JICWyllie

Clip Source: www.alternet.org

While many eyes are focusing on the housing meltdown and its hugely negative effect on an economy clearly moving into recession, few are paying attention to the next bubble expected to burst: credit cards.

Combined with the subprime losses, such a credit card nightmare has the potential, experts say, of bringing down the entire financial system and global economy.

Clip Source: www.alternet.org

Also, let us not forget that our credit card companies have been colonizing markets throughout the world. As the New York Times explained in a series on debt, "As the American blessing of credit cards became widespread, so did the American curse of debt."

Tags: economy, consumers, financial markets, i-debt, i-crisis, i-forecast

instant decision credit cards

Fri, 15 Aug 2008 14:16:46 GMT

clipped by: mikekingpin
clipper's remarks: Instant decision credit cards seem an attractive prospect, this site gives great info on them, including how to avoid getting excessive charges!

Clip Source: www.creditchoices.co.uk

Instant Decision Credit Cards

What are Instant Decision Credit Cards?

Most credit card companies will provide you with an instant decision if you apply for a credit card online. You will need to have a blemish free credit record though.

What else should I know about Instant Decision Credit Cards?

To successfully apply for an instant decision card you need to be over 18, on the electoral roll and in possession of a functioning bank account. A perfect credit rating is also vital.

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Tags: instant decision credit cards, credt, credit cards, finance

Pen or Pin? Yeah right

Thu, 14 Aug 2008 21:07:28 GMT

clipped by: tdsmum
clipper's remarks: My local supermarket has had a sign up for months letting shoppers know that from June 4th (yes I know its August). they can choose PEN or PIN when paying with credit or debit card. I've kept signing (PEN) up to this point in time. The funny thing is you cant make out my signature on the card but still that doesn't seem to bother anyone. I still get the goods EVERYWHERE.

Do read the full RedTape Chronicles piece below including the many comments that have been left.
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Clip Source: redtape.msnbc.com

Could a hacker steal enough information from a store you’ve shopped at to print up fake debit cards in your name and withdraw cash from your checking account at an ATM? Even if you’ve never told a soul your PIN code?

In fact, said the Justice Department last week, it’s already happened, possibly to millions of people.

Buried in last week’s indictments of 11 alleged international computer hackers accused of stealing 40 million credit and debit account numbers from U.S. retailers was something far more unsettling: At at least one retail chain, the indictments accuse the group of swiping encrypted versions of debit card PINs, decrypting them, then using the information to print debit cards and get cash from ATMs.

Tags: credit cards, pen or pin, card fraud

Biotech firm grows plastic in switchgrass

Thu, 14 Aug 2008 13:18:31 GMT

clipped by: spirithiker
clipper's remarks: Finally we can continue our love affair with plastic without the guilt.

Clip Source: www.goodcleantech.com

Massachusetts-based biotech company Metabolix has found a way to manufacture Polyhydroxybutyrate (PHA), also known as bioplastic, by growing it in the leafs of perennial plants such as switchgrass.

By merging genes of various organic specimens, Metabolix has derived what it calls Mirel - a proprietary line of bioplastics that can be used for everything from credit cards to plastic containers and even vehicle components. Highlighting the advantages of bioplastic, CNET reports that growing plastic in switchgrass would not only forge a viable alternative to similar petroleum-based products, but also leave residual biomass that can be used for clean fuel production.

"This result validates the prospect for economic production of PHA polymer in switchgrass, and demonstrates for the first time an important tool for enhancing switchgrass for value-added performance as a bioenergy crop," said Oliver Peoples, chief scientific officer of Metabolix.

Tags: ecology, nature

Retail Space 1

Thu, 14 Aug 2008 07:26:47 GMT

clipped by: krish8ul

Clip Source: imdownloads.rediff.com

But bankers say the debt troubles in agricultural areas are being matched by rising defaults among urban lower earners, once seen by banks as the most promising frontier for unsecured personal loans and credit cards.

These businesses comprised 17 per cent of banks' retail loans at the end of the 2007 fiscal year last March, up from 6 per cent three years earlier, and the proportion is still growing, according to Crisil, the Indian affiliate of Standard & Poor's, the ratings agency. Crisil estimates that losses in this area could rise as high as 13 per cent in the medium term from 5-8 per cent now. Leading the trend is the "small-ticket loan" segment, which covers loans of less than Rs100,000 ($2,480, euro 1,600, pound 1,230) made to blue-collar workers and the self-employed. In what is loosely dubbed India's "subprime" market, losses are expected to be in the range of 12-15 per cent.

IBEW Plus Credit Union using foreign web tracking

Thu, 14 Aug 2008 06:20:11 GMT

clipped by: Theli93
clipper's remarks: Thanks to the Firefox browser and the NoScript plug-in I found IBEW Plus Credit Union is using IndexTools.com to keep activity statistics... even after secure login the script is still showing!

Bad enough that any financial institution is using traffic tracking (congratulations to PayPal - they don't), but IBEW Plus is to support local labor unions, particularly the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers (ref: http://www.ibewlu357.com/).

If you don't know, all U.S. labor unions strongly support "buy American" policies, so why are they using a U.K. company that is apparently based in Budapest, Hungary?

The fact that they apparently teamed up with Yahoo a few years back most assuredly doesn't make me any more comfortable. Why the hell does my financial institution need to know what site I was on last, or where I went afterward. They get more than enough of that information from my credit cards.

Our online security is endangered enough without adding third parties in

Clip Source: www.aboutus.org

IndexTools.com

Title

IndexTools: Numbers that mean business

Description

UK interactive market agency, Summit Media, uses IndexTools to create a better online experience for the customers of the clients -- and increase revenue.

Contact

TENSA Technology Ltd.

Budapest n.a.

Hungary 1131

+36 1 4503020

Tags: banking, statistics, web tracking, financial transactions, credit union, ibew, i.b.e.w.

Cross-Cut & Shred Papers and Data with Ease

Mon, 11 Aug 2008 18:40:06 GMT

clipped by: seosharp
clipper's remarks: Many shredders tend to get clogged when it is often used. However, this commercial-grade shredder can shred up to 16 sheets of paper at once. To go even further, this one will literally destroy any credit cards or CDs you have too!

Clip Source: giftgadgetgateway.com

Some information such as a bank receipt or the paper that comes in express mails must be deleted for private reasons. Shredders are a great tool to use for doing this. However, this Cross-Cut Shredder seems to be the industry’s best when it comes to shredding paper.

Many shredders tend to get clogged when it is often used. However, this commercial-grade shredder can shred up to 16 sheets of paper at once. To go even further, this one will literally destroy any credit cards or CDs you have too!

Tags: cross cut shredder, crosscut shredder, electric paper shredder, paper shredder, data and paper shredder, shredding paper

Credit card crisis in US (in German)

Mon, 11 Aug 2008 17:04:29 GMT

clipped by: bkuba
clipper's remarks: Kreditkarten und die Effekte der Ueberschuldung

Clip Source: www.heise.de

US-Kreditkarten auf Subprime-Kurs?

Die Kreditkartenfirmen waren in den letzten Jahren ähnlich großzügig wie die Hypothekenbanken

Während Hypothekenbanken erst seit Kurzem in großem Stil Erfahrung mit "Subprime-Kundschaft" machen, sind US-Kreditkartenfirmen seit mehr als 20 Jahren an Kreditnehmer mit schlechter Bonität gewohnt. Dass derzeit aber selbst die bessere Kundschaft ("Superprime") auf Zahlungsschwierigkeiten stößt, zeigt der aktuelle Quartalsbericht von American Express.

Wie das aktuelle Quartalsergebnis von American Express aber zeigt, ist inzwischen aber auch das "Super-Prime"-Segment mit bislang bester Bonität in Schwierigkeiten geraten. Denn auch Amex, das seine Karten vor allem an besonders wohlhabende Kundschaft verteilt und dies oft auch ohne Kreditlimit, verzeichnete zuletzt einen starken Anstieg der Ausfälle.

Verschuldung der US-Amerikaner auf Rekordhöhe

Tags: credit, cards, usa, economy

Civil Rights group defends predatory lenders

Mon, 11 Aug 2008 02:14:10 GMT

clipped by: spirithiker
clipper's remarks: I see the need to have credit but this is method is just wrong.

Clip Source: www.motherjones.com

At the end of June, as the subprime mortgage crisis was driving the economy into a tailspin, Charles Steele Jr., the president of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC), took to the op-ed page of the Washington Post to decry the devastating effect the meltdown was having on minority homeowners. But rather than support currently pending measures to better regulate the credit markets, the leader of one of the nation's oldest civil rights groups instead attacked them. Steele was particularly upset about a Federal Reserve proposal that would crack down on subprime credit cards—high-interest cards marketed to people with bad credit.

Steele rose to the card issuers' defense, invoking his group's founder, Martin Luther King Jr., and claiming that any move to regulate the cards would deny minorities access to much-needed credit.

Tags: credit, predation

GAMSAT Fees

Sat, 09 Aug 2008 22:58:08 GMT

clipped by: sam14241

Clip Source: gamsat.acer.edu.au

Payment

The fee to sit GAMSAT is $296 (including GST).

When you register online you will also need to pay online by credit card (Mastercard, AMEX, Diners or VISA or VISA debit cards).

The online payment option operates through ACER’s e-commerce facility via the ACER website. Credit card details are not recorded or stored by ACER but are encrypted at point of capture and transmitted direct to the bank, without entering ACER information systems. Thus you can be assured this is a safe payment option.

Debt doesn’t have to burden your life forever!

Sat, 09 Aug 2008 06:58:40 GMT

clipped by: clearupdebt
clipper's remarks: We recognize the importance of our services in affecting the quality of life for consumers seeking debt relief and commit ourselves to the highest ethical and professional conduct.

Clip Source: www.clearupyourdebt.net

Debt doesn’t have to burden your life forever!

Essentially, if you’re in substantial credit card debt, we are confident that our service can help you get out of debt in the most effective way.

Tags: debt relief, credit card debt, get out of debt, debt settlement, debt settlement program, debt free, high balance credit cards

apexcreditcards

Thu, 07 Aug 2008 10:52:48 GMT

clipped by: keepingscore
clipper's remarks: http://www.apexcreditcards.com/

Clip Source: www.apexcreditcards.com

Search

We've made searching for a credit card easy. Choose from a wide selection of over 170 popular credit card offers.

Compare

Browse through our comprehensive line of credit cards to compare rates and features.

Once you've made your choice, click on the corresponding APPLY button and you'll be directed straight to the secure credit card application.

Apply

Tags: creditcards, creditcard

Las Vegas Got Loosing Hand- Credit Crunch

Thu, 07 Aug 2008 00:37:19 GMT

clipped by: klippety
clipper's remarks: Our very understanding of our society is changing. Let's deal with it and make it better. Perhaps there will be some water left if Vegas slims down some so we can use it where it is really needed. Food anyone or golf?

Clip Source: www.reuters.com

Vegas's losing hand 5:55pm ET

Some casino developers are folding in their cards as a chaotic credit market deals them a bad hand on the boom that turned much of the Vegas Strip into a construction zone. Full Article

Slideshow: Credit crunch timeline

Boyd delays Las Vegas project

Full Coverage: Crisis in credit