Tag: Consumer Spending

Check use is in decline, particularly with consumer payments.  We know this, as it has been well documented. An article ...

The Fed just released its December borrowing totals. It was a good year for retailers and, by extension, those involved ...

The saying used to be “Cash is King”.  The operative phrase in that sentence is “used to be”. I think ...

The elusive millennial group (consumers born between 1980 and 1994), now aging into their forties, stressed credit card issuers with ...

Visa Inc. (NYSE: V) today announced that participants in Visa Token Service (VTS) are estimated to process a combined ecommerce ...

In the few times that a merchant put a credit card surcharge on my restaurant bill, one word comes to ...

I don’t think that anyone would be surprised if I were to say that the way that consumers and businesses ...

Consumer spending is an important economic indicator and can be a great way of evaluating the health of an economy. ...

Our household outpaced e-commerce spending reported by both Mastercard and the Department of Commerce.  Here in sunny Florida, my portion ...

Credit cards can be a convenient way to pay for purchases, but they can also be costly if cardholders don't ...