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Chase Freedom card was one of the credit cards I used very often, mostly at gas stations and grocery stores to get 3% cash back. I said “was” because now I don’t carry it in my wallet any more for the simple reason that the fixed 3% cash back rewards for gas purchases is no [...]

Since we are only a few days into the new year, it’s still probably too early for many of us to consider filing 2011 tax returns, even though the 2012 tax season began on January 1st. Every year in the past few years, I waited until the last day to mail out our tax forms. [...]

Here’s another balance transfer offer, an even better deal than the one from Citibank Diamond Preferred Card I talked about a couple of days ago. This new promotion is from Discover More Card. For a limited time, new card member will be able to make no-fee 0% APR balance transfer for 12 months with the [...]

Want to give some American Express Gift Cards as gifts this holiday season? Use this 100% off American Express gift card purchase fee code to save some money when ordering your gift from now till December 31th. We bought a few AMEX gift cards last years as holiday gifts for the kids’ school teachers. The [...]

For a third year in a row, ING Direct will host another Black Friday sale this Thanksgiving holiday. The event, between 12:01 AM ET Friday, November 25th and 11:59 PM ET Sunday, November 27th, will give new customers additional benefits for using some of their popular products, such as Money Account, Electric Orange Checking Account, [...]

Well, at least this is a piece of welcoming news. Since 2009, Social Security benefits recipients have seen their monthly pay check stuck at the same amount due to, or thanks to, low inflations that have caused no adjustment of cost-of-living in the past two years. According to government data, the 2010 annual inflation rate [...]

I have never traveled with Southwest Airlines before, but I have heard some pretty nice words about the low-cost carrier and its services. For example, last Thanksgiving our whole family took a trip to Disney World down in Florida. While searching for cheap tickets, I also looked for airlines that don’t charge $30 for the [...]

The other day, I talked about how the Citibank rewards program, Citi ThankYou Rewards, is getting better with the introduction of some new features. In that post, I listed a couple of options to earn ThankYou Points with Citibank banking and credit products. Actually, there’s another Citi credit card that’s part of the ThankYou Rewards [...]