Posts Tagged ‘Credit card’

Cap The Credit Card Interest Rates!

February 18th, 2009 | No Comments

TARP funds are being dispursed to financial institutions today.
I just reviewed a story which addresses Washington State’s proposal to pass a bill which would limit the interest rate on credit cards to 12%.
House bill aims to cap interest rates
My thoughts on the subject were expressed in my comment to the story:

It should be a FEDERAL [...]

Identity Theft - Get Protected: Part 2

December 12th, 2008 | No Comments

Documented Examples of People Who Have Suffered Form Criminal Identity Theft
As I stated in my last post, Identity Theft is much further reaching then just credit card numbers and cleaning out bank accounts. Examples abound relating stories of arrests, denied credit, and denied passports of people who have been victimized by someone using their private [...]

Identity Theft - Get Protected

December 12th, 2008 | No Comments

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The Time has come to protect ourselves from cyber-crime.

The information below is quoted from The Sturgis Journal. It outlines some disturbing information and statistics concerning identity theft.
Employers Beware: 50 Percent of all Identity Thefts Reported from Work
(ARA) - It seems that every other day another company issues a press release announcing the loss [...]

Who Is Out To Get Me Today?

March 27th, 2008 | No Comments

Who Is Out To Get Me Today?
Daily, life comes at us hard and fast. We continually look at the clock to see if we are going to be late to wherever it is we are going. A lot of times we feel like there aren’t enough hours in the day to do all the things [...]