Subscribe to the BlogYou may have recently heard news about the Credit CARD Reform Act of 2009. It just went into effect on February 22, 2010 and is intended to provide various protections to consumers to combat the wily tricks of the credit card companies.
Here's a great cartoon video (which I saw posted on the Center for Responsible Lending and Bankruptcy Bill websites) that does about as good a job of both explaining and mocking credit card practices as you might ever see. The creator is a man named Mark Fiore.
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