{"id":10431,"date":"2009-04-23T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2009-04-23T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-30T04:00:00","slug":"obama-to-prod-credit-card-firms-on-fee-practices","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/04\/2009\/obama-to-prod-credit-card-firms-on-fee-practices.html","title":{"rendered":"Obama to prod credit card firms on fee practices"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"yshortcuts\">Reuters &#8211; President Barack Obama<\/span> will weigh in on Thursday on the lending practices of <span class=\"yshortcuts\">U.S. credit card<\/span> companies, an issue that has triggered an outcry from consumers hit with high fees and interest rates.                 <\/p>\n<p> Obama has joined a push by lawmakers to rein in <span class=\"yshortcuts\">credit card practices<\/span> that his aides have labeled as &quot;abusive&quot; and plans to air some of his concerns at a White House meeting with 13 executives from top banks and companies that issue the cards.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/news_land.php?i=http:\/\/us.rd.yahoo.com\/dailynews\/rss\/business\/*http:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/s\/nm\/20090423\/bs_nm\/us_obama_creditcards\">Read Complete Article<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Reuters &#8211; President Barack Obama will weigh in on Thursday on the lending practices of U.S. credit card companies, an issue that has triggered an outcry from consumers hit with high fees and interest rates. Obama has joined a push [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[10782,4306,4482,10784,4318,10783,10780,6642,4709,10781,4326,9133],"class_list":["post-10431","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-syndicated","tag-aides","tag-banks","tag-barack-obama","tag-cards","tag-consumers","tag-credit-card-companies","tag-credit-card-practices","tag-interest-rates","tag-lawmakers","tag-outcry","tag-reuters","tag-white-house"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10431","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10431"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10431\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10431"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10431"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10431"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}