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The Holiday Shopping Season is upon us and shoppers should think twice about the popular "Open A Charge Card, Save 20%" promotion. The short-term savings may be tempting, but the long-term costs to a budget may be huge.

I don't know what was stranger on The Today Show this morning: Meredith Vieira's back-to-back interviews with Jim Kramer and J.K. Rowling Jim Kramer looking like a fish out of water in front of a camera Watching Lester Holt and Matt Lauer (1) share the anchor desk and, (2) actually...

The much-hyped VantageScore credit scoring system seems to be getting a lot of press lately, so thank you to Holden Lewis at Bankrate.com for keeping it real. According to the VantageScore Web site, it is the "new standard in credit risk scoring". "Why did we create VantageScore? Simply put, the...