Welcome to Credit Withdrawal, if you like what you see, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!  An interesting article over at MSN Money made me think a bit. The article, Your lifestyle may hurt credit score - MSN Money talks about how the FTC is pursuing CompuCredit for [...]

In a fit of desperation and mind-boggling strangeness, I received an e-mail offer from Capital One the other day to open a debit card with them. This doesn’t sound that unusual, since virtually every bank account in the world nowadays comes with a connected debit card.
The weirdness begins when you start reading [...]

(Scene - a lone pilot in a small jet plane, swooping and swerving avoiding enemy fire and SAM missiles as they come at him.
Strains of Kenny Loggins’ "Danger Zone" playing in the background. Switch to flashbacks with the commanding officer telling the pilot how dangerous the mission is, but how important it is [...]

Many of my readers are probably wondering if this is a late April Fools joke, but it’s not. I do think credit cards are good for some things, and one of the best things I’ve found to use them for is automatically paying bills with.
More and more credit cards are allowing you to [...]

Have you seen all the different credit card rewards that are given out nowadays?? Airline miles, gift points, vacation certificates, etc, etc, etc. My favorite of course, is the Cash Back Rewards.
Cash back rewards are simply rewards for spending more on credit cards. They are based on some percentage of the total spent each [...]