#credit card

Britain is a textbook case of how growing inequality leads to economic crisis. The years before the crash were marked by a sharp rise in remortgaging and the growth of 0 percent balance transfer credit cards. By 2008 the UK had the highest ratio of household debt to GDP of any major economy. ↗

— Frances O'Grady

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The most important loan to pay is your student loan. It's more important than your mortgage, car and credit card payments. You cannot discharge student loan debt in the majority of cases. ↗

— Suze Orman

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If you are worried about job security and do not have an adequate emergency fund (ideally eight months' worth of living expenses stashed away in a federally insured bank or credit union), you need to focus more on saving money than paying down the balance on your credit cards. ↗

— Suze Orman

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Procrastination is like a credit card: it's a lot of fun until you get the bill. ↗

— Christopher Parker

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Every year the Federal Government wastes billions of dollars as a result of overpayments of government agencies, misuse of government credit cards, abuse of the Federal entitlement programs, and the mismanagement of the Federal bureaucracy. ↗

— Chris Chocola

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Typically, students slide into debt through the extension (by credit card companies) of unaffordable credit lines. ↗

— Robert Manning

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What this country needs is a credit card for charging things to experience. ↗

— Tom Wilson

#charging #country #credit #credit card #experience

Money is just the poor man's credit card. ↗

— Marshall McLuhan

#credit #credit card #just #man #money

The way the credit cards were made in the '80s to be a people's form of capitalism and be able to make it so that you could get a loan that you would have been denied previous, now that's the way stocks are. ↗

— Jim Cramer

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I can walk into a bookstore and hand over my credit card and they don't know who the hell I am. Maybe that says something about bookstore clerks. ↗

— E. L. Doctorow

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