![]() ![]() The cards are being pushed through Wal-Mart stores and are ostensibly backed by American Express.Īmerican Express? As if it's a bank. Now, American Express (NYSE: AXP) is partnering with Wal-Mart (NYSE: WMT) to offer Bluebird cards. ![]() These are the people who more or less may live paycheck to paycheck, or don't have jobs but need a "card" because both credit and debit cards are how we pay for most things these days.Ī lot of people are rebelling, and rightfully so, against the higher and higher fees that banks are charging on checking accounts (and for all their other "services") and are turning to prepaid cards as an alternative means of paying for goods and services. Prepaid cards have lots of benefits, especially for the "unbanked." It's about those prepaid cards, and the games that are being played with them that you may not know about. Here's something else that's got the potential to undermine our financial future.
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