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Chase is Chasing My Business Away
Earlier this weekend, my wife was saying that she’s not so much fun any more. I think she was alluding to the fact that she’s in her early 30s now and can’t party like she could a decade ago. I said, “It could be worse, you could be a curmudgeony, old man of 33 like [...]
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Glad I Have an Emergency Fund
If it was a typical week, you’d be reading a well-researched article on identity theft, right now. However this week has been anything but typical. Monday the plan was for my wife and I to meet at a friends’ birthday party after work. However, I got a phone call that something was wrong with our [...]
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Problems With American Airlines Credit Card
This post is going to be bit of rant, due to very poor customer service. Many people probably don’t like reading rants, but in extreme cases (like this one), I find it necessary to document the case for those interested. Maybe it just makes me feel better that someone from the company may see it [...]
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Credit Karma’s Credit Simulator (and Other Credit Tools)
Last April, I went to Finovate Startup in San Francisco. I was introduced to around 40 companies at the time, and I met a number of their founders personally. One of them was Credit Karma. You may remember that in the past, I told you how you can get, free credit scores from them. It’s [...]
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Credit Cards as a Money Tool
Much of America has is in debt. Sometimes it’s good debt and other times it’s bad debt. I wrote about good debt vs. bad debt last week. Credit cards that you don’t pay off are an example of bad debt. Many of them charge upwards of 20% interest. For that reason some people have decided [...]
