Posts Tagged ‘Interest’

Consumers give regulators an earful over credit-card peeves

Wednesday, August 13th, 2008

We’ve all heard the stories, nightmares really, of loan sharks, crooks, and leaches in the credit card space that impose unreasonable restrictions on consumers. Consumers seem to be in agreement that there need to be tighter controls to protect consumers in the credit-card space. There are complaints that these credit card companies often initiate arbitrary rate increases as well as penalizing consumers that marginally are late on payments, as marginal as payments that are 1 day late. Share these gripes, check out this MarketWatch article, Interest in new rules boils over


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