Wednesday Roundup: Credit Cards & Debt News
On Wednesdays we find our favorite credit cards and debt news links from all over the web and blogosphere. Today check out the new best credit cards, if you should invest or pay off your debt, and more.
A New Academic Study Scrutinizes Credit Score Reporting
A New Academic Study Scrutinizes Credit Score Reporting The all-important credit score has gained so much significance in our modern lives that a team of researchers from the University of Missouri plan to spend more than a million dollars to study it. The group of experts was given $1.13 million in grant money by the [...]
Credit Unions are Still a Great Bargain in the Anti-Bank Era
Credit Unions are Still a Great Bargain in the Anti-Bank Era Banks have a long way to go before they will restore consumer confidence and high customer satisfaction ratings. But traditional credit unions are still getting stellar reviews because they are affordable, customer-oriented, and offer a healthy variety of financial products including mortgages, credit cards, [...]
Thieves Steal New Credit Card Enabled Parking Meters
Thieves Steal New Credit Card Enabled Parking Meters Municipalities across the USA are switching over from old fashioned coin operated parking meters to new high-tech digital meters that accept coins or credit cards, and the trend has not gone unnoticed by thieves. They recently yanked about 20 of the new meters right out of the [...]
Top 10 Reasons Why Your Credit Score Isn’t As High As It Could Be
We all gripe about our credit problems, whether you have a 550 credit score and don’t know the best secured credit card to get, or you have a 750 and still can’t qualify for that coveted American Express card. Even though our credit problems are different, there are a handful of shared reasons why many [...]