Tag: credit cards
No credit score? A grocery list could be the next best thing
Joonhyuk Yang, University of Notre Dame and Jung Youn Lee, Jones Graduate School of Business at Rice University
How...
Airlines are frustrating travelers by changing frequent flyer program rules –...
Jay L. Zagorsky, Boston University and H. Sami Karaca, Boston University
As the U.S. holiday travel season picks up,...
How do credit scores work? 2 finance professors explain how lenders...
D. Brian Blank, Mississippi State University and Tom Miller Jr., Mississippi State University
With the cost of borrowing money...
Sanders and AOC want to cap interest rates on consumer loans...
Anne Fleming, Georgetown University
Sen. Bernie Sanders and Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez want to cap consumer interest rates in an effort to curb “sky high” credit...
Poor people are penalised for borrowing to make ends meet –...
Karen Rowlingson, University of Birmingham
Michael Sheen has just launched the End High Cost Credit Alliance. The actor has supported various charitable causes over the...
Thinking like an economist can make your next trip abroad cheaper
Jay L. Zagorsky, The Ohio State University
A record number of tourists and business travelers visited another country in 2016, and this year is already...
EXPLORING NATURE
In Disney’s ‘Moana,’ the characters navigate using the stars, just like...
Christopher Palma, Penn State
If you have visited an island like one of the Hawaiian Islands, Tahiti or Easter...
