How Marriott, Hyatt, Hilton, and IHG can improve to become more competitive.

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Citi is a slept-on credit card issuer, but they are notorious for having opaque approval criteria. Today we teach you some tricks to reverse-engineer Citi's approval algorithm. Plus, a secret double-dipping strategy.

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World of Hyatt is the best hotel loyalty program in the world and American Airlines has the best airline loyalty program in the United States. There have been some very exciting updates to their partnership agreement. 

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Everyone hates taxes. But at least you can earn a good amount of credit card points and miles by paying taxes with a credit card. Today we will give you a full guide to how to pay taxes with your credit cards in 2025.

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2024 was a very interesting year in the credit card space but 2025 could be even more interesting. Today we are going to discuss our predictions for 2025. 

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Etihad airlines has one of the world's best first-class products. Their A380 apartments are some of the largest and most opulent seats in the sky. Today we are going to tell you everything you need to know to unlock the ability to fly in these amazing seats for ultra-low cost.

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Hotel cards are some of the best credit cards in the entire space. While the personal hotel credit cards are great, there are also many great hotel business cards which we will discuss today.

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Chase cards are some of our favorites in the entire credit card space. Sadly, it has become a lot harder to get approved for Chase cards if you already have several of their cards. Today we are going to explain all the new changes

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ANA is one of the only two airlines which operates first class to Japan from the United States. Their first class is hailed as one of the best first-class products on earth. Normally tickets cost around $20,000 round trip but it is possible to book for a pretty reasonable amount of points plus a few hundred dollars if you know the right tricks. Today we will talk about everything you need to know on how to book and fly ANA first class. 

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It is no secret that people in the credit card space are not a fan of the Apple card. It offers virtually no signup bonus and has very uncompetitive multipliers. What is even more interesting is how much of a disaster this card has been for the issuing bank, Goldman Sachs. It has cost GS billions of dollars. 

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