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  • NPR's Eric Deggans asks Natasha Sarin, former counselor to Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen, about plans to cap credit card interest rates.
  • A Miami, Florida man has plead guilty to trying to enter Canada with forged credit cards back in October.Authorities searched 36-year-old Cuban national…
  • By Mark Scotthttp://stream.publicbroadcasting.net/production/mp3/wbfo/local-wbfo-916812.mp3Buffalo, NY – State Attorney General Andrew Cuomo is…
  • Lawyers for some of the nation's largest retailers say Visa and MasterCard illegally thwarted for years the growth of debit-card networks, The Wall Street Journal reports. The allegations stem from recently unsealed court documents from a class-action suit that includes Wal-Mart and Sears. NPR's Jim Zarroli reports.
  • Andee Tagle from NPR's Life Kit podcast reports on the best way to accumulate credit card points and put them to good use.
  • To put that in perspective, $1 trillion in bills end to end would stretch past the sun from Earth.
  • The average American had almost $5,000 of credit card debt in the third quarter of 2012, up almost 5 percent over the previous quarter. Industry analysts say the increase is partly seasonal, people spending more ahead of the holidays. But they also say it could reflect growing consumer confidence, which has been on the rise since July as job numbers have gradually improved nationwide.
  • Consumers who sign credit card agreements that feature an arbitration clause cannot dispute fees or charges in court, the Supreme Court ruled Tuesday. The 8-to-1 ruling is drawing fire from consumer advocates.
  • The retailer acknowledged early Thursday that there was a massive security breach of its customers' credit and debit card accounts. It started the day before Thanksgiving and extended at least to Dec. 15 — the heart of the holiday shopping season.
  • It used to take seven to 10 business days to get a new credit card. Because of an ongoing chip shortage, deliveries can take almost two months, and that could be the case through the end of the year.
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