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In one of his free-associative rants, Trump went on about how he would not let his followers be “de-banked” for their political beliefs. Which isn’t really a thing. Now, he may have had his hostages martyrs minions in jail on his mind. Admittedly, a...
by strawbale
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on Sun Jan 21, 2024 at 04:24 PM PST
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Credit Reporting Agencies Are Perpetuating Anti-Trans Discrimination. Congress Should Make Them Stop Along with government-issued IDs, such as passports, driver’s licenses, and social security cards, one of the most consequential documents in most people’s lives are their credit reports. These determine everything from someone’s ability to buy a home...
by Paul Bland for Public Justice
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on Tue Aug 23, 2022 at 06:15 AM PDT
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The promise of economic recovery has rung in America's ears since the false promises of an end to the pandemic in 2021. Lawmakers, business owners, and speculators assured us that hallmarks of our consumer life, like casual spending on nonessentials,...
by sophialburns
107 comments
on Thu Mar 31, 2022 at 09:00 AM PDT
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A lot of people put a lot of time energy and hard work into making Hollywood movies, but in these past 12 months (1 year), the bastards @ Hollywood have been removing their names from the Credits that you see at the end of a movie, like Nick Brown who...
by Kaizar
35 comments
on Fri Mar 18, 2022 at 09:56 AM PDT
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Fitch Ratings just downgraded Russia’s credit to a “c” or junk status and say that default is imminent: www.washingtonpost.com/... Fitch Ratings downgraded Russia’s credit to “C,” or junk status, cautioning investors on Wednesday that Moscow was...
by Kappyhour
165 comments
on Wed Mar 09, 2022 at 01:12 PM PST
with 245 Recommends
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Last weekend, after Gavin Newsom defeated the attempted Republican recall, I was back at the Democratic club's booth at the farmers market. During the weeks leading up to the recall election the magalomaniacs were bellicose, obnoxious, and often in my...
by Steve McKeand
16 comments
on Tue Sep 21, 2021 at 01:30 PM PDT
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Nothing says you are looking out for the consumer like being a big bank that suddenly decides to cut the lines of credit for every one of its personal borrowers in the United States—a move the bank acknowledges could have a negative impact on those who...
by Christopher Reeves
80 comments
on Thu Jul 08, 2021 at 12:34 PM PDT
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You think it'd be a no-brainer. After multiple articles, national attention, much bewailing and pledges to correct the injustice, it should be tough to screw it up. But screw it up the California Legislature did. They failed to enact legislation to...
by jpmassar
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on Wed Jul 17, 2019 at 09:34 AM PDT
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The era of Trump is marked by important stories that go without much attention because of the major damage he is inflicting upon the country in so many areas. So please indulge me with a couple minutes of your time to bring more attention to a group...
by oc hope
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on Thu Jul 11, 2019 at 01:07 PM PDT
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Like everybody else I use plastic for most purchases. My debit card and I are as one. Periodically the bank sends us a short novel based on our transactions: the story of our month in the form of expenditures.
Last week, my debit card’s chip died....
by Robert Dobbs
91 comments
on Sun Jun 09, 2019 at 09:55 PM PDT
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It was no surprise when Mick Mulvaney’s new and improved “no-budget” Consumer Financial Protection Bureau announced it was ending its investigation into installment-loan lender World Acceptance Corporation on Monday. Mulvaney and the Trump...
by Jessica Sutherland
28 comments
on Fri Jan 26, 2018 at 12:05 PM PST
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Afternoon fellow Kos Citizens!
As we all know with the election of the Scammer in chief identity thieves and scam runners are more emboldened than ever before. One scam that up till now we had very little ways to combat is Credit card skimmers.
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by AaronMc
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on Tue Sep 26, 2017 at 10:51 AM PDT
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As more information emerges about Equifax and how it has handled the large data breach that exposed millions of consumers, it has become easier to believe that this company shouldn’t be trusted to handle anyone’s private information. The latest...
by Wagatwe Wanjuki
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on Thu Sep 21, 2017 at 11:49 AM PDT
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Let me first stipulate that my credit score is spectacular. It’s over 800, so I’m not bitching about unfair calculations or being unable to correct an error at one of the credit bureaus, though we all know those things happen all the fucking time.
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by CaptainMarginal
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on Sat Sep 16, 2017 at 09:57 PM PDT
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The story of the massive security failure at Equifax that has put the personal information of millions of people at risk just keeps getting worse. (It’s not just Americans they’ve screwed.) The fact that news of the breach was not revealed for weeks...
by xaxnar
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on Sun Sep 17, 2017 at 07:57 AM PDT
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Today’s New York Times has an editorial calling out Trump to make some more “deals” with Congressional Democrats that would actually benefit most Americans:
Want to Make a Deal, Mr. Trump?
If President Trump continues to reach across the aisle,...
by wonkydonkey
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on Tue Sep 12, 2017 at 12:11 PM PDT
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The Collusion is Between Trump and CONGRESS. It's all About Money and Obliterating the Middle Class. Ok, there’s Russia, and money laundering, and RICO stuff all mixed up with the GOP, nothing new there, aside from this Republican President “being too stupid to know when to keep his trap shut”, while he’s exposing the utter hypocrisy of the entire GOP...
by UcGuy
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on Sun May 28, 2017 at 07:17 AM PDT
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Today's edition of corporate crime comes from the credit reporting giants Equifax and TransUnion . The two have been fined a combined $5.5 million fine for deceiving their customers. The two are ...
by m2c4
12 comments
on Wed Jan 04, 2017 at 10:29 AM PST
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Today, like every day, I received several letters from banks urging me to sign up for their best credit cards. I deserve it, they say, I am worthy, they intone. Well ain’t that just wonderful. It wasn’t always this way, far from it.
Years ago I was...
by Cyclguy
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on Wed Dec 28, 2016 at 05:25 AM PST
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Since the Trump/Putin/GOP ticket won America’s screwed up election, the worlds economic markets are starting to look a little nervous. Don’t get distracted with the climbing U.S. stock market, that too could be more of a result of the nervousness than...
by pollwatcher
377 comments
on Mon Dec 19, 2016 at 05:39 AM PST
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