Oct 22 2009
Credit Card Companies Evolving Revenue Streams: Penalty for Paying on Time, 79.9% Annual Fee, Rising Charge Offs. The New Credit Card Revenue Streams.
The love hate relationship with credit cards for many Americans is probably leaning more in the hate stage at the moment. Americans have over $2 trillion in revolving debt – $1 trillion of that is plastic. The average American has come to rely on credit cards as a form of supplemental income, like retirees come [...]
Mar 3 2009
Gas Prices going up and Bailing out a Hedge Fund: Why the Average American is Getting Bailout Fatigue. TALF a bailout for Corporations under guise of Lending for Average Americans.
Most Americans are having a challenging time digesting the bitter fruit of all the financial news coming from Wall Street and D.C. It is hard for many to wrap their brains around what is going on. In fact, today Ben Bernanke just stated that AIG was operating like a hedge fund. Which of course begs [...]
