The fees American Express charges merchants may often be steep and sometimes scary, but they are not anticompetitive.
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AmEx Is Free To Terrorize Shopkeepers
Tag Archives: Credit Card
The Most Rewarding Uses Of Rewards Points
Picking the card with the best rewards is only the beginning. It takes more legwork to use your points for maximum advantage.
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A Regulatory Crackdown That Worked
Amid a host of overreactions to the financial crisis, the CARD Act put an end to some genuinely abusive behavior by banks.
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A Plastic Shopping Spree
A credit card went shopping in an Atlanta mall, while its owner was someplace else.
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Ding-Dong! Your Credit Card Company Comes Calling
Is that a real Viking peering through your window? No, it’s just Capital One exercising its contractual rights.
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An Expensive Return To Old-Fashioned Cash
After Target’s breach, a lot of people are making purchases with cash. It’s not logical, and probably not permanent either.
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Choosing A Travel Rewards Credit Card
If you still want to go anywhere after the holiday rush, here are some tips for choosing a credit card with travel benefits.
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Outflanking Mastercard And Visa
In business, as in war, it seldom pays to attack a powerful and well-entrenched adversary head-on. A successful assault is …
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Cleaning Up Those Automatic Charges
Changing credit cards provides a good opportunity to do a little housekeeping. About a year ago, I decided to cancel …
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Cancellation Compensation Is Complicated
With events of all sorts being canceled or postponed, getting tickets refunded can be easy – or not.
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