Should credit cards market on college campuses?
#spacer{clear:left}#abc #sidebar{margin-top:1.5em}if(zs>0){zSB(3,3)}else{gEI(“spacer”).style.display=’none’;gEI(“sidebar”).style.display=’none’} When you’re 19 years old, getting a free t-shirt for filling out a form is like trading a dirt for gold. I don’t know if it’s the “free” part, the “t-shirt” part, or both, but I remember walking by tables set up on the quad and giving up my name and social security number for a gray Citibank t-shirt that read “COLLEGE” across the front. A few weeks later, I had a bright, shiny credit card with my name across the bottom. Now, I don’t have either. At that age, life is about expressing your adulthood in as many ways as possible, including swiping a credit the way you’d seen your parents do. Credit card companies know this and it’s one of the tactics they use to lure eager teenagers into applying for credit cards before they’re ready. A New York State Attorney General’s assistant is currently doing an investigation on credit card companies and col
#spacer{clear:left}#abc #sidebar{margin-top:1.5em}if(zs>0){zSB(3,3)}else{gEI(“spacer”).style.display=’none’;gEI(“sidebar”).style.display=’none’} When you’re 19 years old, getting a free t-shirt for filling out a form is like trading a dirt for gold. I don’t know if it’s the “free” part, the “t-shirt” part, or both, but I remember walking by tables set up on the quad and giving up my name and social security number for a gray Citibank t-shirt that read “COLLEGE” across the front. A few weeks later, I had a bright, shiny credit card with my name across the bottom. Now, I don’t have either. At that age, life is about expressing your adulthood in as many ways as possible, including swiping a credit the way you’d seen your parents do. Credit card companies know this and it’s one of the tactics they use to lure eager teenagers into applying for credit cards before they’re ready. A New York State Attorney General’s assistant is currently doing an investigation on credit card companies and col
