Banks and consumers brace for new credit card rules

About damn time they got this stuff back in line: the "universal default" trick was especially obnoxious, and pretty obviously against anything resembling principles of common law (not to mention common decency).

Reuters - The U.S. credit card industry, harshly criticized for imposing surprise fees and interest rate hikes on consumers, may face a day of reckoning on Thursday.

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Amish homeowners: Religion trumps building codes

I guess that the Amish don't understand that in America you don't really own your property, you just lease it from the government, and must beg their permission to improve it. They're learning.

AP - Daniel Borntreger's home looks like hundreds of other Wisconsin farmhouses: two-story A-frame, porch, clothes on the line.

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