'Spending is what card issuers are hoping you will do'

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'The problem with rewards credit cards'
Ellen Cushing at The Atlantic
Today's "credit card issuers have essentially invented their own fiat currency — 'points,' usually — that can be redeemed only within their apparatus, for rewards the company has designated," says Ellen Cushing. As…

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