credit card fees
- I Am Shocked *Shocked* To Find Out Banks Use Astroturfing to Keep High Credit Credit Card Fees- Note: Kforet has invited me to cross-post this here, and I'm happy to accept. Hopefully this won't be the last!
- The sheer obscenity of VISA's "Healthcare Gift Card".- Healthcare as a gift, not a right A "diary" at Daily Kos today informed me that VISA, the credit card giant, is issuing "healthcare gift cards. I find this profoundly disturbing and outrageous.
- Credit Card Fees Force Red Cross to Impose Minimum Donation Amounts- The great thing about giving to charity is that you give what you can, even if it's a small amount. I didn't always think of it this way. I used to think that my donations wouldn't matter unless I could give large amounts of money. And in fact, I didn't give anything until Hurricane Katrina. Before that I was in school, and what little money I had was earmarked for Ramen.
- Europe Can Rein in Visa and MasterCard... Why Can't We?- MasterCard's profits surged 70% last quarter, AP is reporting just this afternoon. The profit alone was $214 million, and it's a company record.
- Visa Wants You To Pay More, State Dems Starting To Take Action- I hope you like paying for things you didn't know you were paying for, because you're about to get to do a lot more of that soon. Last month we learned that new MasterCard interchange fee rates were going to put the hurt on merchants and consumers alike.
