On AlterNet: credit cards
Stories, blog posts, and videos tagged as "credit cards"
Digby, Hullabaloo AlterNet: PEEK. 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.
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.
Danny Schechter, AlterNet. May 11, 2009.
Will the U.S. Senate pass long-needed reforms of credit card abuses?
Matt Taibbi, True/Slant. May 8, 2009.
A columnist decides the credit card industry is a victim of "public anger" --- how revolting is that?
Amanda Terkel, Think Progress AlterNet: Corporate Accountability and WorkPlace. April 23, 2009.
Summers seemed less than interested in Obama's meeting with credit card executives.
Harry Hanbury, AlterNet: Corporate Accountability and WorkPlace. April 7, 2009.
The credit card lobby is finding itself on the defensive, and turning out in force to oppose legislation from Congress.
Steve Benen, Washington Monthly AlterNet: Media and Technology. March 12, 2009.
It seems former Sen. Norm Coleman (R-Minn.) is having one of those years.
Arianna Huffington, Huffington Post AlterNet: Corporate Accountability and WorkPlace. 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.
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.
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.
