Credit card companies will have to inform cardholders forty-five days before they raise interest rates or change other important terms.
VOA: special.2009.05.22
The government says forty-five percent of college students have credit card debt.
VOA: special.2009.04.10
It was a time when it seemed that Petraeus could not complete a routine meeting without being interrupted by an aide handing him a three-by-five card reporting the latest assassination of an Iraqi ally or the detonation of a car bomb in a Baghdad marketplace.
There were changes in three of the five credit card categories in the second half of July, but these changes seem relatively trivial against a backdrop of a budget discussion that could be a real game-changer for credit card rates.