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Mortgages and personal loans are harder for some consumers to secure. People are losing money in the stock market. More people are being turned down for credit cards, or having available limits on existing credit cards decreased unexpectedly. Formerly-inflated home values are coming down, leaving homeowners with less equity and borrowing power, and large debts. The credit crunch is affecting U.S.

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Federal regulators have approved the most stringent credit card regulations in nearly three decades, but that doesn't mean change will come overnight. Credit card issuers have until July 1, 2010, to implement the requirements.What should consumers do in the meantime?

Do you have your Shell gas credit card yet? If you've never applied for any of the gas credit cards on the market, now's the time to do it. Here's why...In the not so distant past, a Shell gas credit card wasn't exactly an icon of financial prestige. In fact, gas credit cards were often thought of as second-rate cards left to those with less-than-stellar credit.

Being in the credit card business is getting more unattractive by the day. Economists think that the consumer default rate on plastic will move up at the same rate as unemployment. In other word, figures could move over 8%.

Now the federal government is getting ready to issue a bunch of consumer-friendly rules that could cut margins at issuers.