On AlterNet: credit cards

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Ehrenreich: How Corporations and Local Governments Rob the Poor Blind

Barbara Ehrenreich, TomDispatch.com. May 17, 2012.

The trick is to rob them in ways that are systematic, impersonal, and almost impossible to trace to individual perpetrators.

Debtor's Revolution: Are Debt Strikes Another Possible Tactic in the Fight Against the Big Banks?

Sarah Jaffe, AlterNet. November 3, 2011.

What does it mean to stop cooperating with the banks? Some activists, organizers, and technologists think the answer might be mass refusal to pay debts.

They Got Bailed Out, We Got Sold Out: How the Banks Profit from the Lack of Jobs

Sarah Jaffe, AlterNet. August 11, 2011.

Consumer borrowing hit its highest level since August 2007 this June; here's why that's not a good sign for the economy.

5 Ways Corporate Scavengers Are Making Big Money Off Our Economic Pain

Joshua Holland, AlterNet. February 12, 2011.

Big business has found a number of ways to profit from the economic suffering on 'Main Street.'

Whip the Senate on Carper's Let-Banks-Violate-the-Law Amendment!

Zephyr Teachout, Zach Carter, AlterNet. May 13, 2010.

Sen. Tom Carper is trying to sneak a covert piece of brutal deregulation into the Wall Street reform bill. Don't let him get away with it!

Predatory Capitalism Alert: Watch Out for These Credit Card Scams

DaveJ, Open Left. November 25, 2009.

When is something going to start getting done about these scams?

Credit Card Companies Are Using Dirty Tricks to Force Us to Pay Late Fees: Why Won't Congress Do Something?

Digby, Hullabaloo. November 23, 2009.

The Democrats should be the consumer's best friends right now, fighting these huge enterprises and demanding that they answer for their previous bad behavior.

Will the Credit Card Companies Get Their Pound of Flesh?

Isaiah J. Poole, Campaign for America's Future. May 20, 2009.

A bill clamping down on credit card companies is imminent, and the industry—and its conservative buddies—are ready to retaliate.

Credit Card Companies Fight Reform

Danny Schechter, AlterNet. May 11, 2009.

Will the U.S. Senate pass long-needed reforms of credit card abuses?

Memo to Jackass, the Credit Card Industry Doesn't Need Anyone Standing Up for It

Matt Taibbi, True/Slant. May 8, 2009.

A columnist decides the credit card industry is a victim of "public anger" --- how revolting is that?

What the?! Larry Summers Falls Asleep During Obama Meeting

Amanda Terkel, ThinkProgress. April 23, 2009.

Summers seemed less than interested in Obama's meeting with credit card executives.

Credit Card Industry Defeated ... for Now

Harry Hanbury, April 7, 2009.

The credit card lobby is finding itself on the defensive, and turning out in force to oppose legislation from Congress.

Norm Coleman Pays Back Funders By Posting Credit Info

Steve Benen, Washington Monthly. March 12, 2009.

It seems former Sen. Norm Coleman (R-Minn.) is having one of those years.

The Credit Card Debt Crisis: The Next Economic Domino

Arianna Huffington, Huffington Post. February 25, 2009.

Hot on the heels of the banking crisis, the employment crisis, and the foreclosure crisis, the country is on the verge of a credit card crisis.

The Medical Credit Card Trap

Helaine Olen, The American Prospect. October 3, 2007.

Health care providers are increasingly pushing special credit cards as a way for the cash-strapped under-insured to cover their medical expenses. But then the bills start piling up.

Romancing the Credit-Card Holder

Margaret Price, Christian Science Monitor. June 26, 2007.

Congress is looking hard at how credit-card issuers do business. Issuers are responding with sweeter deals.

Wikileaks Temporarily Shut After Credit Card Blockade Bleeds Funds

Julianne Escobedo Shepherd, December 31, 1969.