Do Credit Cards Make Sense in Your Life?

Jason Steele, an expert in the credit card industry, discusses the benefits and risks of using a credit card. Find out who truly benefits from your credit card purchases and who should give up credit card usage altogether.

Then, our panel of experts discuss if and how consumers benefit from points and reward schemes without falling into debt. Do they pay off their credit cards every month? Do they collect points and miles? And is spending on credit a good psychological exercise or does it teach a bad lesson – the same lesson you would learn by watching Congress)?

Today’s guest, Jason Steele

Jamie Wise is the Founder of BUZZ Indexes and the President and Chief Executive Officer of Periscope Capital, a Toronto-based hedge fund manager. His experience

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Jason on Twitter

Today’s episode is sponsored by BUZZ Index

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Today’s Panelists

Doug Goldstein | Rich As a King
Joe Saul-Sehy | Stacking Benjamins
Miranda Marquit | Adulting.tv
Linda P. Jones | Be Wealthy and Smart

For a quick bio of each of our show participants, head on over to our panelists’ page.

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About our sponsor, BUZZ Index

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Here’s how it works: First, BUZZ targets the most mentioned large-cap U.S. stocks across the Social Media landscape. The more active the conversation, the greater the reliability of the BUZZ.

Each of the most-mentioned stocks is then given an insight score based on BUZZ’s proprietary analytics and the 75 stocks with the most Bullish scores are included in the Index. Each month the BUZZ is tracked to capture the latest Big Data driven insights and then the 75 companies with the most Bullish scores are selected, positioning BUZZ to capture the highest return potential.