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A Brief History of Credit Cards - A Fun Primer!

 
 
 
A Brief History of Credit Cards - A Fun Primer!
Wednesday, May 13,2009 06:19 AM

It was status and convenience in two breezy words: Charge it. But in these leaner times, shoppers are thinking twice before pulling out the plastic, even as analysts predict credit-card defaults could total more than $75 billion this year. On April 23, Barack Obama and his economic adviser Lawrence Summers met with credit-card executives to discuss how to control our addiction to plastic--and curb the controversial practices that encourage it.

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