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      <title>Plastic Rap: Plastic Rap moves</title>
      <description>Bankrate blogs have moved to a new, improved platform. Thanks for reading Bankrate.com!</description>
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      <title>Plastic Rap: 'Free' credit reports</title>
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      <title>Plastic Rap: New Capital One cards</title>
      <description>Capital One debuts two travel rewards cards with enhanced earnings rates.</description>
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      <title>Plastic Rap: A real 'gold' card</title>
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      <title>Plastic Rap: Death of overlimit fees?</title>
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      <description>The Fed seeks comment on a proposed rule that would limit card penalty fees and require re-evaluation of rate increases.</description>
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      <title>Plastic Rap: Chase: You = Zero profit </title>
      <description>A Bankrate reader says Chase denied his wife's credit card application because her account wouldn't be profitable.</description>
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      <description>The Federal Reserve launches an interactive site to help consumers manage their cards.</description>
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      <description>A new survey finds that women are more likely than men to care that their date has a great FICO score.</description>
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      <title>Plastic Rap: Discover debuts CardBuilder</title>
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      <title>Plastic Rap: Citi points for Haiti aid</title>
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