Article: MONEY MONDAY: Juggling debt; Paying off credit cards with home equity loans has pluses, minuses

Article: Half of Americans stress over debt: 4 in 10 in AP poll using credit cards to fund Christmas
Charleston Gazette;  December 20, 2004 ;     700+ words ......store to store this holiday season, with credit cards clutched tightly in hand and visions...come from home and car loans as well as credit cards - even more so with December buying...Three-fourths in the poll said they have credit cards. Four in 10 of those with credit ...

Article: Credit cards pave road to debt
Chicago Sun-Times;  July 23, 1989 ;     700+ words ......department store credit cards, 18 of them...denied a home equity loan from the thrift...interest on a home equity loan, however, is...on the home equity loan, which is about...pays on her credit cards is actually...control her credit cards. ...

Article: HOME EQUITY LOANS A SWORD THAT CUTS BOTH WAYS BORROWERS CAN USE LOW INTEREST TO PAY OFF CREDIT CARDS BUT RISK RAISING DEBT.(Business)
Rocky Mountain News (Denver, CO);  May 23, 1998 ;     328 words ......pay off your credit cards and move the debt to a home equity loan or line of...get a home equity loan. But there...again once the credit cards are cleared...on both the credit cards and the home equity loan. Eventually...

Article: Paying off credit card debt with home equity loan can be wise thing
The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel;  May 31, 1998 ;     317 words ......pay off your credit cards and move the debt to a home equity loan or line of...get a home equity loan. But there...again once the credit cards are cleared...on both the credit cards and the home equity loan. Eventually...

Article: CREDIT CARDS SURPASS THE 100 MILLION MARK IN THE EU.(Brief Article)
Cardline;  March 26, 2004 ;     142 words ......a milestone for Visa and MasterCard-branded credit cards, according to Mintel International Group Ltd.'s new report, European Credit Cards. In 2003, the number of Visa and MasterCard credit cards topped the 100 million mark for the first time...

Article: SHIFTING DEBTS TO HOME EQUITY LOAN MEANS TAX DEDUCTION, LOWER INTEREST.(Business)
Seattle Post-Intelligencer (Seattle, WA);  May 25, 1998 ;     418 words ......pay off your credit cards and move the debt to a home equity loan or line of...get a home equity loan. But there...again once the credit cards are cleared...on both the credit cards and the home equity loan. Eventually...

Article: Taking charge: Town gives up credit cards for 100 hours
The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel;  August 11, 2001 ;     580 words ...Taking charge: Town gives up credit cards for 100 hours By EILEEN ALT POWELL Associated...to go 100 hours without using their credit cards. The back-to-cash experiment was part...24% pay just the minimum due on their credit cards each month, and about the same percentage...

Article: Central & Eastern Europe: Russia - Slow On The Cards - Credit Cards Are Relatively New To Russia And Take-up Is Still Slow As Cash Remains The Dominating Payment Method. Brian Caplen Reports On Progress.
The Banker;  July 1, 2008 ;     700+ words ......such as cars and designer clothes, but credit cards seem to be taking a while longer to...in circulation, only 12 million are credit cards and many holders use them like debit...cash. In the mass sector, Russians use credit cards more like debit cards as a tool to access...

Article: More Entrepreneurs Using Credit Cards to Finance Ventures.
Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News;  December 31, 1998 ;     700+ words ......are financing their enterprises with credit cards. Plastic has replaced the bank loan...surveyed for the study said they had used credit cards in the past 12 months to help finance...if they knew their clients were using credit cards to finance operations, said Will Clemens...

Article: If debt's heavy, look at home equity loan
Chicago Sun-Times;  December 2, 1990 ;     700+ words ......There are the credit cards and the personal...to get a home equity loan to consolidate...credit cost: credit cards range from 21...Howards got a home equity loan, Weinstein said...type of home equity loan? There's the equity line of ...

Article: Equity loan curbs rate on debt.(FRIDAY HOME GUIDE)(MORTGAGE Q&A)
The Washington Times;  November 5, 2004 ;     482 words ......than 20 percent equity, we are considering...taking out a new home-equity loan for $30,000 to pay off several credit cards. My wife is against...of taking out an equity loan because she doesn...Paying off our credit cards will save us more...throw away your ...

Article: Chip-based credit cards from Jan 1
The Malay Mail;  December 7, 2004 ;     339 words ......move into a chip-based platform for all credit cards transactions come January. It is one...From Jan 1, all Malaysian- issued credit cards will operate on the chip platform for all credit cards." He said the national chip migration...

Article: Britons addicted to credit cards.(Business)
The Birmingham Post (England);  November 3, 2004 ;     462 words ......addicted' to plastic, according to a report on credit cards. We hold more credit cards than anywhere else in Europe - equivalent...also the only country in Europe with more credit cards than people. In 2003 67 million credit cards...

Article: More plastic, ma'am? (credit cards in Britain) (Finance)
The Economist (US);  August 26, 1989 ;     700+ words ...Credit cards in Britain More plastic, Ma'am? AS THE...all buy things at lower prices than credit cards. This is now banned under the agreements...trying to sign up retailers to take their credit cards. This restrains competition among member...