Fourteen years, six months and 25 days ago, the Metropolitan Transportation Authority introduced the world to the MetroCard. These pieces of plastic — then blue with yellow letters — had a magnetic strip that would automatically deduct the $1.25 fare. Until Jan. 6, 1994, straphangers had the distinct pleasure of carting around packets of tokens or cash to buy tokens from surly clerks. Over the years, the MetroCard has ushered in a mass transit ridership boom in New York. With the advent of d

Slowing credit card spending in the U.S. worried MasterCard investors, although the payment processor still managed Thursday to beat expectations for its second-quarter earnings.

Chris & Rob’s "Sicilian" Pepperoni, originally uploaded by Aaron Landry. Chris & Rob’s is one of the weirder spots in my neighborhood. With bright red awnings and Vienna Beef sponsored signs everywhere on the outside, the inside contains a bright yellow bar with ketchup and mustard plastic bottles and the kitchen guarded off from your germs by large pieces of plexiglass. It’s feels like at any point some rowdy group of kids in little league uniforms could show up. Beyond there is two

As Americans see their home prices plunge, bills climb and credit lines shrink, they are swiping their credit cards less and their debit cards more - and Visa and MasterCard are still raking in the fees. Debit card use has been catching up to credit cards...

Each on us has a particular financial position, and most of us have some kind of debt to return. It can mean both, the big home loan or a small credit card bills. It actually means that all of us depend on being approved for some kind of credit, without it our lives would be much harder and we would have to give up on lots of things we take for gra