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Thursday, April 19, 2012

Credit Card Companies Return To College Campuses

Credit card companies are finding ways around new regulations that restrict how they can market their cards to college students.

A number of lenders are partnering with colleges to offer prepaid cards that function as student IDs, according to the Wall Street Journal.

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	Jane White: Once Again, Academics Get an F When It Comes to Retirement Math As an advocate for 401(k) participants, the only thing more frustrating for me than not being able to get Capitol Hill to make the plans walk and talk like pensions is tackling "innumeracy" on the part of academics who portray themselves as experts.
	Gordon MacInnes: Drinking the Tax-Cut Kool-Aid in New Jersey The investments we need to create jobs and build a strong economy are being short-changed as leaders from both parties continue to drink the tax-cut Kool-Aid.
	Cole Hill: Bored to Death "The IRS knows very well that such qualities help insulate them from public protest and political opposition, and that abstruse dullness is actually a much more effective shield than is secrecy," says David Foster Wallace's in "The Pale King."
	Lanny Davis: Obama and Romney on Buffett Rule - Both Right ... and Wrong Romney is right to mock the Buffett Rule as more about politics than economic fairness, and Obama is right that even if it's a drop in the bucket, it's still worth doing. Both are wrong to make a big deal about the Buffett Rule as having a serious economic effect one way or the other.
	Dan Solin: The 401(k) Rip-off May Be Ending It has long been my view that 401(k) plans are a national disgrace. They are rife with conflicts of interest between those who "advise" them and the participants who contribute to them.