Luckily, numerous credit cards can help jump-start your progress toward elite status in the coming year. If you play your cards right (pun intended), you could have top-tier elite status in a major ...

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Lee Huffman is a former financial planner and corporate finance manager, but is now a credit card expert. He quit his corporate job to write about early retirement, credit cards, travel, and insurance ...

For most of my career as a travel editor, airline elite status was the goal. I planned trips around it, tracked progress obsessively and flew airlines I didn’t always love because it helped achieve ...