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Tthere's a scary article in the New York Times Magazine this weekend entitled "What Does Your Credit-Card Company Know About You?", which discusses the manipulative and Big Brother-like ways credit-card companies profile and amateur psychologize their patients, er... clients into paying the money they owe. I must admit I was quite horrified, after reading the piece, and immediately forwarded it to a friend who has worked at various banking institutions over the past ten years. But is this article really something we should be worried about, as consumers?  Read more >

Maybe I skipped a day in my English Literature classes when they explained this one, but I was always under the impression that "poetic license" was just a turn of phrase, not an actual license. Turns out I was wrong: according to an article I just read on Writers Weekly, entitled "She's Got a License to Write," it seems you really DO need a license to write.  Read more >