Research from Cornell University suggests that people assign different levels of social status to others depending on how they choose to pay for goods and services.

We look at the supply side of the credit card market to analyze the pricing and marketing strategies of credit card offers. First, we show that card issuers target less-educated customers with more ...

By taking the other route, and paying off your credit-card debt with $30,000 from your investments, you would forfeit around $6,700 over those three years, assuming a conservative 7% return or roughly ...