Dear credit provider,
In light of the housing and credit crises of the past few years, I am left wondering about some of your practices in regard to the way you choose how to extend credit lines and how you deem certain applicants to be worthy of receiving a line of credit. In the past, [...]

The latest buzz has been all about the first wave of credit card reform laws to have taken effect. On August 20, 2009, credit card issuers must give cardholders 45 days notice before making any significant changes to the terms of the cardmember agreement, and must mail out bills 21 days before the due [...]

The Advanta Corporation has announced that effective on May 30, 2009, all accounts will effectively be closed.  This means that no further activity will be allowed on any existing accounts, whether they be purchases, balance transfers, or via convenience checks.  While no account will be allowed to incur new charges, none of the accounts are [...]

applying colchicine to daylilies

This is the first weekend of 2009, and the past week was rather a rather quiet one in terms of blog reading as well as posting.  A few highlights from the past week: tapering off of lexapro
Personal Happenings: soma
Finally completed the redesign of the GreenBridge Advisors Website, now I’m working on [...]

Late last week, NBC dedicated some of it’s morning airtime with the Today Show to do a segment on credit skimming (and debit skimming).  There was some interesting reporting especially when it comes to the ease of swiping the info from a credit or debit card.  Security expert Jim Stickley showed just how easy it [...]