Category: Credit
Longtime readers will know that I have been using Credit Karma to monitor my credit score for a while now. The free consumer credit information service (best way I can …
I’ve completed another full year of using the Blue Cash Preferred® Card from American Express (see my initial Amex Blue Cash Preferred card review) as my primary card of …
The average credit card APR these days is ~17.69% (with many north of 20%). Actually, with monthly compounding balances, the effective APR is almost 1 percentage point higher. So …
One of the most common financial topics brought up at the work lunch-room table (or really anywhere, now that I think about it) centers around the old save for …
I haven’t plugged a new credit card offering in over a year, as few (if any), have stood out from a pile of mediocrity. But here’s one worth plugging, …
A week after my ‘Gen X and Gen Y state of retirement‘ post, one of the major credit bureaus (Experian) launched an infographic on the ‘state of credit‘ of …
Nothing good can come from a payday loan. According to new research from Pew, the average payday loan borrower must pay back $400 within two weeks, but can only …
I’ve had a number of years of using the Blue Cash Preferred® Card from American Express as my primary card of choice for groceries (by far, the biggest expense …
