Date: Fri, 30. January 2009 15:27:20

(AHN) - As American consumers tighten their belt with the worsening economic situation, among the items they are cutting are credit card payments. According to credit card research company CardTrak.com outstanding card debt paid in November dropped to 16 percent. - Fri, 30 Jan 2009 07:50:31 GMT

Date: Thu, 29. April 2010 02:47:49

AP - South Korea honored 46 sailors Thursday with a tearful military funeral a month after a blast sank their warship, and officials vowed retaliation for those responsible as speculation mounted that North Korea may have torpedoed the vessel.

Date: Thu, 9. July 2009 14:01:43

AP - South Korean Web sites were attacked again Thursday after a wave of Web site outages in the U.S. and South Korea that several officials suspect North Korea was behind.

Date: Thu, 16. October 2008 00:27:46

Paying at the pump with a debit card could spell trouble. And choosing the ?credit? option does not turn your debit card into a credit card. Here's why.

Date: Thu, 16. October 2008 00:27:46

Paying at the pump with a debit card could spell trouble. And choosing the ?credit? option does not turn your debit card into a credit card. Here's why.

Date: Sat, 4. April 2009 12:30:40

AP - High winds may have forced North Korea to delay its rocket launch, despite the country's insistence Saturday that preparations were complete for the liftoff that many suspect is intended to test the country's long-range missile capabilities.

Date: Tue, 10. March 2009 04:33:25

North Korea agreed Tuesday to allow South Koreans working in a joint industrial zone in North Korea to cross the border after Pyongyang's move to cut the last military hot line to Seoul left hundreds stranded ...

Date: Mon, 18. August 2008 09:58:21

PYONGYANG, North Korea, Aug. 18 (UPI) -- North Korea said Monday the U.S.-South Korean military leaves it no choice but to build its own military power.

Date: Sat, 23. May 2009 00:01:51

Credit card legislation signed President Barack Obama Friday is expected to seriously impact the credit card industry and consumers' relationships with credit, and as a result, marketing from the industry is likely to change in message as well as volume.

Date: Fri, 16. May 2008 23:31:36

Long-term readers of PFBlog knows I have been taking advantage of credit card companies for years. Especially, I'm very good at 0% APR arbitrage, whereby I sign up for new credit cards with attached introductory 0% APR balance transfer offer, move the entire balance immediately to my bank account, and enjoy the high saving account rates of 5% or more while remitting only the monthly minimal payment back to the credit card company. Of course, this strategy will drag down your credit score. Last summer, especially, I applied five cards in two months' time, and my credit score tanked from 720s to 640s, and I was essentially denied new credit application after being seen a credit risk by most banks. But credit score is only of cosmetic value if you don't need credit any time soon. To me, after all, I have no better use of my credit score now that I'm sitting on a portfolio of over $800k and has no plan to buy a property any time soon. The below chart is a great summary of what happened in the last dozen months: READ FULL POST ... Hot Deal: 5% cashback on everything from Citi CashReturns Mastercard Read more news like this from PFBlog.com, The Unique Personal Finance Blog Since 2003.