{"id":3773,"date":"2022-02-09T04:00:00","date_gmt":"2022-02-09T11:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/?p=3773"},"modified":"2023-04-18T11:56:02","modified_gmt":"2023-04-18T17:56:02","slug":"wednesday-tilting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/2022\/02\/09\/wednesday-tilting\/","title":{"rendered":"Wednesday Tilting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>1.<\/strong> Yet another <a class=\"ek-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.americanexpress.com\/us\/credit-cards\/card-application\/apply\/businessgold-card\/59353-104-1-WOCGFSL4921#\/\">no lifetime language (NLL) American Express Business Gold link<\/a> has surfaced, and this one doesn\u2019t have an offer code attached to it which likely means it\u2019s more broadly available than the <a class=\"ek-link\" href=\"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/2022\/02\/04\/weekend-sailing\/\">two from Friday<\/a>. The sign up bonus is 90,000 Membership Rewards after spending $10,000 in three months.<\/p>\n<p>As always, as long as you have an existing American Express credit card AmEx almost certainly won\u2019t pull your credit, and because it\u2019s a business account it won\u2019t show on your credit report once opened either. In other words, lobbing in an application shouldn\u2019t affect anything whether you\u2019re approved or not. (Thanks to <a class=\"ek-link\" href=\"https:\/\/frequentmiler.com\/targeted-increased-welcome-offer-on-amex-business-gold-with-no-lifetime-language\/\">Frequent Miler<\/a> for the link)<\/p>\n<p><strong>2.<\/strong> There\u2019s an <a class=\"ek-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2022\/02\/08\/cnn-underscored\/money\/amex-rewards-checking-debit-card-points\/index.html\">American Express debit card and checking account<\/a> that just about everyone is talking about, and as far as I can tell most of the talk is purely for novelty sake. Here\u2019s my quick take:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Almost nothing is likely to recognize the card as a debit card<\/li>\n<li>The earn rate is 0.5 Membership Rewards per dollar (just use a Double Cash instead to earn 2 cents per dollar)<\/li>\n<li>If debit cards are really your bag, consider <a class=\"ek-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nearside.com\/features\/cashback-rewards\">Nearside with 2.2% cash back rewards<\/a>, or <a class=\"ek-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.tabbank.com\/kasasa-cash-back-rewards\/\">one<\/a> of the <a class=\"ek-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.point.app\/\">other<\/a> <a class=\"ek-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.axosbank.com\/Personal\/Checking\">players<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>If a play does somehow emerge, I\u2019ll write about it so no need to rush out and get it unless you want to be <a class=\"ek-link\" href=\"https:\/\/makespain.com\/listing\/don-quixote-windmills\/\">Don Quixote<\/a> tilting at <s>windmills<\/s> FinTechs.<\/p>\n<p><strong>3.<\/strong> JetBlue is running <a class=\"ek-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.jetblue.com\/sale\/birthday-promo\">some halfway lame deals this week<\/a>. As of this writing I\u2019m not sure what today\u2019s is, but it\u2019s supposed to involve JetBlue vacations which <em>could<\/em> mean a cheap way to get Disney tickets or a cruise.<\/p>\n<p>Happy Wednesday!<\/p>\n<div class=\"wp-block-image is-style-editorskit-rounded\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full is-resized\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3774\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" src=\"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/windmill.jpeg\" srcset=\"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/windmill.jpeg 640w, https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/windmill-300x225.jpeg 300w\" width=\"420\"\/><figcaption>Your favorite FinTech in the face of an American Express debit card.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>1. Yet another no lifetime language (NLL) American Express Business Gold link has surfaced, and this one doesn\u2019t have an offer code attached to it<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_editorskit_title_hidden":false,"_editorskit_reading_time":1,"_editorskit_is_block_options_detached":false,"_editorskit_block_options_position":"{}","footnotes":""},"categories":[54,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3773","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-credit-cards","category-quick-hits"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3773","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3773"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3773\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7101,"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3773\/revisions\/7101"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3773"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3773"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3773"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}