The Visa Blink (PC Magazine via Yahoo! News)
The Visa Blink (PC Magazine via Yahoo! News)
Visa is targeting the wrong kind of retailer with its security threats. Threats don't deal with the underlying problem with retail security enforcement.
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A Look At Discretionary Spending Through the Earnings Calls (Seeking Alpha via Yahoo! Finance)
The general consensus is that consumers are feeling some pressure but not enough to really keep them from spending.
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Nordstrom stokes high-end credit fears; shares lose ground (Market Watch)
CHICAGO (MarketWatch) -- Nordstrom Inc. stoked fears that high-end consumers are starting to face the same sort of tight personal finances that the other end of the income spectrum has been dealing with for some months, sending shares lower on Friday.
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Law reports (Law Society Gazette)
The appellant investment fund (C) appealed against a decision ([2006] EWHC 2887 (Comm), [2007] 1 Lloyd’s Rep 264) dismissing its claim for damages against the respondent bank (G) for misrepresentation and breach of a duty of care.
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Cracking down on credit scams (The Record)
Credit card applications show up in the mail each week, and it's not a bad idea to check some of them out; you could find terms and benefits better than those in whatever plastic you're currently carrying.
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Fed Lowers Discount Rate to Calm Markets (NPR)
The Federal Reserve says it has approved a half-percentage point cut in the discount rate - a dramatic move aimed at calming markets roiled by a widening credit crisis.
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Top Scoops (Scoop.co.nz)
Will the Railroad Travel By Your House?
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Credit card scams face FTC action (The Myrtle Beach Sun News)
1/83/8 HACKENSACK, N.J. | Credit card applications show up in the mail each week, and it's not a bad idea to check some of them out; you could find terms and benefits better than those in whatever plastic you're currently carrying. That's especially true for someone with a strong credit history, a person who really doesn't need credit, because that's the kind of customer card issuers want.
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Spin control (Chicago Sun-Times)
"Every time I make money from playing music, it feels like I'm pulling the wool over someone's eyes," singer-songwriter Carl Newman recently told the Toronto Star, and that comment says a lot about the charms of his much-vaunted Canadian indie-rock supergroup.
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Police News for August 18 (The Intelligencer)
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The Visa Blink (PC Magazine via Yahoo! News)
Moran says some judges consider hardship, but it is hard to prove. “Somebody fresh out of school who’s healthy and has no dependents doesn’t have a good case,” she says. “To get the debt discharged, they’ve got to be disabled or the court has to look into the future with some certainty” that they won’t be able to pay.
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