Archive for December 2008

Travel Plans Cancelled, Not Enough Room in the Plane

Well, it’s official. We’re staying home for the holidays. Originally we had planned on visiting family in Seattle, but with the recent horrible weather they’ve been having, a huge number of flights to SEA/TAC have already been delayed or canceled. That and thousands of people are already stuck in Seattle/Tacoma airport just trying to find [...]



The Government Gives Us an Early Christmas Present – The Credit Card Reform Act of 2008

Last week, the Office of Thrift Supervision, the Federal Reserve, and the National Credit Union Administration gave the American people a huge Christmas present, albeit one that we won’t be able to open until 2010.
These three offices of commerce have decided that credit card companies are participating in “unfair,” “unreasonable,” and “deceptive,” tactics when dealing [...]