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While schools today do a great job of preparing our children to take on the world, the one place where they fail miserably is with personal finance. Many college campuses these days are swarming with credit card companies looking to hook our teens with credit cards as soon as they leave home for the first [...]

With the advent of telephone banking and the Internet, the way we manage our credit cards has completely changed. It wasn’t that long ago that we had to wait for our monthly statements in the mail to see how our accounts were doing and it was only then that we could see if there were [...]

It seems like each and every day there is a story on the news about someone getting ripped off and having their identity stolen. It even happens to the rich and famous, so you can only imagine how vulnerable the rest of us are. There are, however, a certain number of common sense practices that [...]

While it has always been important that we look to protect our credit card information, with the rising threat of identity theft and stolen credit card numbers it is even more important that we watch for any and all warning signs coming from our credit card statements. That’s why it is so vitally important that [...]

With the increased complexity of credit card statements these days, it can seem like quite a chore to navigate your way through them. What makes matters even worse is the fact that while one card company may have an innovative design to their statements, another card company may have one that looks like it’s from [...]