{"id":29618,"date":"2011-12-01T02:25:34","date_gmt":"2011-12-01T02:25:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/surprise_many_americans_are_confused_by_credit_card_terms\/"},"modified":"2011-12-01T02:25:34","modified_gmt":"2011-12-01T02:25:34","slug":"surprise_many_americans_are_confused_by_credit_card_terms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=29618","title":{"rendered":"Surprise! Many Americans are confused by credit card terms!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In reporting these observations, however, the Bureau is mindful that they are drawn from a non-random sample of roughly 5,000 credit card consumers.<\/p>\n<p>First, many complaints show consumers struggling to understand the terms of credit cards and associated products like debt protection services. These show a mismatch between consumer understanding and product function or issuer practice.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.consumerfinance.gov\/wp-content\/themes\/cfpb_theme\/reports\/CFPB%20Consumer%20Response%20Interim%20Report%20on%20Credit%20Card%20Complaint%20Data.pdf\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In reporting these observations, however, the Bureau is mindful that they are drawn from a non-random sample of roughly 5,000 credit card consumers. First, many complaints show consumers struggling to understand the terms of credit cards and associated products like<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=29618\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,40,582,589,149,593],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29618","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-watch","category-economics-politics","category-consumerconsumer-spending","category-corporationscorporate-life","category-economy","category-personal-finance"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29618","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=29618"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29618\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=29618"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=29618"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=29618"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}