Tagged: credit card

August 15, 2023

One Trillion Dollars Of Credit Card Debt, No Biggie

If you missed the news Americans just passed a milestone. In the second quarter of 2023 Americans have $1.03 trillion in credit card debt, the first time this number has been passed. Credit card debt now joins student loan debt...

finances

September 10, 2019

How I Got The Government To Give Me 60,000 Southwest Points

As a financially independent semi-retired blogger, you probably assume I’m also an ace travel hacker. By all appearances most in the FI blogosphere seem to be. Well, you’d be wrong. I’ve had a great rewards credit card for many years...

geography and geoarbitrage

January 25, 2019

Visualizing American Credit Scores

The average FICO credit score in America hit 704 in September 2018, the first time it’s topped 700 since April 2017. FICO released a detailed report showing the slow and steady march upward of the average credit score over the...

Turnip Fire!

November 22, 2017

Area Savant Pays $62.73 For $40 Item On Sale For $29.99

EERIE, PA – Local savant Kent Dreyfuss is blissfully unaware he’ll wind up paying $62.73 for NASCAR Heat 2, a video game regularly priced at $40 and on sale for $29.99, according to local reporters. “I’ve been waiting for this...