Archive for the ‘News’ Category
Saturday, March 1st, 2008
My wife received a call Friday morning from the family she nannies for. One of their parents passed away. They are from India so they had to fly out that day to go there. They'll be gone for at least two weeks. This means my wife will be ...
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Friday, December 21st, 2007
I ran across this stat about one credit card company's transactions on the infamous day after Thanksgiving , Black Friday.
Now keep in mind this is for one day and only one of the credit card companies.
Number of transactions: 17.8 million
Amount spent: over $2.6 billion
And yet I wonder how we're in ...
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Saturday, December 8th, 2007
Interesting article over at The New York Times that I found via The Consumerist.
Discusses how credit card companies are allowing customers to pay their mortgages with their credit card so that they can earn rewards.
I've often thought about doing that with my rent, but rather pay it with my debit ...
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