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More Americans are taking on credit card debt as skyrocketing inflation for basic necessities continues to burden families.

Prices are rising faster than wages, forcing households to increasingly turn to credit cards.

Takeout and delivery orders have offered many restaurants a financial lifeline during the coronavirus lockdown. But some dining establishments are falling prey to a new kind of dine and dash in which customers dispute legitimate credit card charges related to an order, forcing the restaurant to foot the entire bill.

A six-year-old might have put himself on Santa’s naughty list this holiday season after he racked up $16,000 in video game charges on his mother’s credit card.

Credit card giant Visa is warning its cardholders that cyber criminals are targeting gas pumps in order to steal personal credit card data.

According to the financial website WalletHub, some cities across America are better places than others for veterans to settle down.

There is almost no chance Apple and Goldman Sachs are discriminating against women when it comes to credit limits on the new Apple card. Yet over the weekend, both companies came under fire for allegedly doing exactly that. From the

The hefty salary that Hunter Biden, former Vice President Joe Biden’s youngest son, drew while serving on the board of directors of a Ukrainian oil and gas giant is raising questions not only about his role with the company, but also if he profited from his father’s political influence.

Democrat presidential hopeful Robert “Beto” O’Rourke is suggesting credit cards are an enabling factor in mass shootings.

Joe Biden sided with his top donor, the one time credit card giant MBNA Corp., over progressives like Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) on bankruptcy reform during the late 1990s and early 2000s.

Sen. Bernie Sanders and Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez want to shut down a new Amazon “credit builder” card for people with no credit or bad credit.

Philadelphia has reportedly become the first city in the United States to ban cashless stores and restaurants in an attempt to be more “inclusive” to Americans without bank accounts.

Marriott International announced Friday that the data of up to 500 million Starwood customers was compromised. 

According to independent cybersecurity analysts and some officials from Pakistan’s Federal Investigation Agency (FIA), a large-scale hacking operation attacked the nation’s banks beginning on October 27, reports revealed Tuesday.

The latest data suggests that the Trump economic expansion is still running strong.

Dash ($DASH), a decentralized digital currency, released an upgrade to its blockchain code Wednesday that promises to reduce most transaction fees to less than a third of a penny, boasting that it has upgraded its scaling capabilities as Bitcoin struggles under the load of its users’ activity.

A new study reveals that 44 percent of members of Congress with active donation pages do not require industry-standard credit card security codes for online donations—a vulnerability that makes fraudulent foreign donations more likely. Among Democratic members of Congress, less

MasterCard is currently testing a credit card with a fingerprint scanner embedded within it, creating an extra layer of biometric authentication to keep the accounts of their customers as safe as possible.

According to a new study by Bankrate.com, over half of Americans cannot financially handle a bill of $500 or more. 63 percent said they would be unable to handle an unexpected expense.

Sen. Marco Rubio promised that he would release credit card records that have brought intensified scrutiny to his financial habits when he was the leader of the Florida State House of Representatives.

The Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC), which regulates the financial risks posed by the lending activity of American national banks, has officially reported that banks are expanding sub-prime credit by raising borrowing limits for credit card holders. The new concerns follow an OCC report last June that flagged “problematic” recent high-risk corporate takeovers, car loans through auto dealers, and commercial finance lending.