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Posted in Budgeting, Credit cards on Dec 19th, 2011
When financial-aggregation site Mint.com came out a few years ago, I remember having several questions: How are they going to get people to sign up and enter all their usernames and passwords? Won’t people be too scared? How are they going to make money? They addressed the first one right out of the gate—security was [...]
Posted in Credit cards on Oct 4th, 2011
I just got a neat little packet in the mail yesterday that made me feel kind of special. It came in a black envelope and it said I was pre-qualified to receive the “exclusive Visa Black Card,” which is limited to “only 1% of U.S. residents.” It doesn’t say how that 1% is determined, whether [...]
Posted in Credit cards, Finance on May 4th, 2010
Your credit score says a lot about you: how responsible you are, how fiscally fit you are, and how intelligent you are as a human being. OK maybe that last one is a stretch, but I might be right—I do have a very high credit score. If you thought a bad credit score could “only” [...]
Posted in Credit cards on Mar 19th, 2009
When I was a kid, I watched adults pay for stuff with credit cards and my tiny, undeveloped brain just couldn’t get around how this worked. Swiping plastic in exchange for lunch or a new jacket? It was right up there with Santa Clause coming down the chimney—there was something fishy about it. Since I [...]
