Credit Cards

At least once a week a reader emails me to ask whether they can improve their credit with a prepaid credit card. Although the answer is a bit more complicated than this, I tell them no. If you are rebuilding your credit, the best type of card to use is a secured credit card. And [...]

Getting a business credit card was one of the smartest things I did as a small business owner. It made it easy to track business expenses and keep them separate from my personal spending. And business cards come with some excellent travel and cash back rewards, which brings me to the Ink Cash (SM) Business [...]

With the summer gone and the fall just beginning, the big bonuses we see from credit card issuers will begin to dwindle.  Over the past few weeks, no new bonuses have arrived, which makes the one today even more valuable to new cardholders.  Citibank has launched a 50,000 ThankYou point bonus promo on the Citi [...]

I recently changed jobs. With my new job, I’ll be traveling a lot more, and that’s prompted me to spend some time researching everything from frequent flyer programs to hotel rewards to rental car promotional offers. It’s also going to result in a few changes to the credit cards I carry. So I spent some [...]