Consequences

RE: Credit Crunch & Playing Defense

September 17th, 2010

Response to AwakenSafely: www.youtube.com BE EXTREMELY CAREFUL and informed before considering taking cash off of those cards! Credit card companies are slashing available credit lines and THAT has a bunch of frightening consequences for anyone who has worked to keep their FICO scores up.

Tags: credit crunch, fico scores, Credit, Playing, [...]

How Debt Gets to Collectors - Legal Consequences

August 16th, 2010

How Debt Gets to Collectors - Legal Consequences When you become late on one credit card - your rates immediately jump up on ALL you credit cards. Including promotional zero-interest cards. And sometimes this goes retroactively back in time. Credit card companies explain that they can do this because you become a “high risk”. As [...]

Credit Card Nation: The Consequences of America’s Addiction to Credit

February 22nd, 2010

ISBN13: 9780465043675
Condition: NEW
Notes: Brand New from Publisher. No Remainder Mark.

Product DescriptionA fascinating and timely chronicle of America’s tortured relationship to money–and the future crisis that looms as a result of our overwhelming reliance on credit. Credit-card debt is choking American prosperity off at the neck. In Credit Card Nation, Robert D. Manning [...]