If this describes you, getting a store credit card is fine as long as you use it correctly.
An example might be a fine levied on a bank for overcharging credit-card customers.
Even people running fine businesses could have been killed by frozen credit markets, weak consumer spending or fraud.
Banks are in anxious limbo, awaiting the fine print on the treatment of securitised mortgages, credit-default swaps and more.
While this type of penalty pricing can present issues for cardholders, the real problem with small-business credit cards is buried deep in the fine print.
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That is fine in the good times, when private insurance and credit are readily available.
For the employer to pay a fine, an employee has to qualify for a premium tax credit.
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You don't get credit for taking those steps and pulling -- you don't get credit for what would have happened, which is fine.
And so many Americans get their credit card agreements and don't understand the fine print that's written in a way precisely so that they cannot understand it, and then find out that their rates double overnight.
As you compare cards, pay attention to the fine print because gas cards are more complicated, and potentially more expensive, than standard credit cards.
Sure, it's slick to bill people's credit cards unless they cancel the service, but that was disclosed in the fine print--all people had to do was read it.
Credit card companies will no longer be able to mislead you with pages and pages of fine print.
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It is becoming increasingly important to compare credit cards, see what offers are out there, and, yes, read the fine print.
In contrast, generic pricing and publicly available information is fine in a cloud, as long as it's run separately from a database containing customer names and credit card data.
It may be perfectly fine - and it would be perfectly fine if the borrowers that come from subprime into FHA look a lot like current FHA borrowers in terms of their credit risk profiles.
The use of the Fed to peg nominal interest rates at artificially low levels, fine tune the yield curve, incentivize risk taking, monetize government debt, and inflate selected asset prices by allocating credit are deviations from sound money and free markets.
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