FREE EXPERIAN CREDIT MONITORING: Thanks to My Money Blog for pointing out that Credit Sesame is now offering free credit monitoring of your Experian credit bureau data. This is a service that some people pay for, but now you can get it for free. Visit MMB for the details.
AMEX LIKES YOU A LITTLE MORE THAN THEY DID YESTERDAY: View From The Wing notifies us that the offer on the Delta Amex card was increasing to 45,000 miles. We just got this card a month or two ago and the bonus was only 35,000, so that’s a decent increase. Delta miles have a reputation for being not as valuable as miles from other programs, though they do have the pay with points option that lets you redeem points at one cent each when you pay for a ticket. The minimum spend requirement remains the same, $3,000 within 3 months.
THE TROUBLE WITH TRILLIONS: In economic news, a joke used to drive the plot on an episode of “The Simpsons” is being discussed as serious monetary policy. The reason is that apparently there is some loophole which allows the Treasury department to mint platinum coins of whatever value it sees fit, and so it would be perfectly legal for Treasury to produce a trillion-dollar coin. From the article:
What the platinum-coin option really shows is how odd the debt ceiling is. It’s an artificial obstacle to the government paying for spending it has already approved and for making interest payments on debt it has already issued. The debt ceiling isn’t an economic limit on spending; it’s a legal one. And maybe that, not the trillion-dollar coin, is the real joke.
Maybe…or maybe basing monetary policy on animated sitcom plot devices is the joke.
A MILLION MILES IN A YEAR: Courtesy of Point Me To The Plane, we get to meet United Airlines’s most frequent flyer of 2012, who somehow managed to fly one million miles spread over 400 flights as of early December. This is a mind-boggling number and frankly sounds hellish to us, but to each his own, and we always look on with fascination at extreme cases like this.
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