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    • One diner has noticed discrepancies on restaurant charges to his credit card bills. I have noticed a consistent pattern in restaurants' treatment of my credit slips. I leave cash tips, but notice when I am balancing my checkbook that the amount subm...
    • Credit card reform has been a very hot topic in Congress all week. On Wednesday, the Credit Card Act was reintroduced in the Senate. Bill Hardekopf, who runs the LowCards.com Web site, posted information about some of the key provisions of the propo...
    • Feb. 12 (Bloomberg) -- U.S. Senate Banking Committee Chairman Christopher Dodd proposed new limits on fees and charges for consumer credit cards, saying an era of lax regulation had lead to gouging of U.S. consumers. Under legislation introduced yes...
    • PHOENIX The government has introduced passport cards designed to speed border crossings by U.S. citizens traveling to Canada, Mexico and the Caribbean, and the State Department is preparing to handle an onslaught of up to 30 million applications as...
    • Even people with long credit histories who make credit card payments on time are seeing credit lines reduced, interest rates increased and fewer offers in the mail for new credit cards. Major banks, which have suffered heavy losses from the mortgage...
    • SAN FRANCISCO (Dow Jones) -- The Federal Reserve is getting ready to launch a new program that should make it easier for consumers to get credit-card and auto loans -- though not necessarily at lower interest rates. The availability of loans would st...
    • The suffering credit card industry wants some of you to help bail it out. In th e last year or so, card issuers have raised interest rates, added new fees, lowered credit limits and even shut down accounts altogether. As unemployment has risen, so h...
    • Police have opened a second internal affairs investigation into spending on a city-issued credit card for a barbecue. BY ELAINE DE VALLE edevalle@MiamiHerald.com When a bunch of Coral Gables police officers got together to throw a barbecue lunch, th...
    • They might forgive but they won't forget. Banks are more willing than ever to cancel some of your credit card debt, but the non-payment will remain on your credit report for years to come, dragging down your credit score. So what do you do? If you a...