Blindfolded Into Debt: A Comparison of Credit Card Costs and Conditions at Banks and Credit Unions

July 5, 2005

Financial Services, Predatory Lending, Research

Tim Westrich and Malcolm Bush

This report analyzes the deceptive effect of credit card terms and
conditions and how these terms and conditions massively raise the cost
of using credit cards and contribute to rising levels of consumer debt.

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