Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/07/14
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]In that case I will chime in, having studied economic history...Yes, as so many other artifacts of modern life, credit cards were invented in the USA. Either BofA or Citibank introduced the VISA card in the late 50s. Reminds me of a conversation about a foreign-born NBA player between two TV announcers a few years ago; one said that the player had visa problems, to which the other replied, "yeah, and he has AMEX and Discover problems too..." Nathan Mark Rabiner wrote: > > Did we, in the US, introduce credit cards to the world? Seems like > > we must have. > > > > -- > > Roger > High finance history obviously not being my specialty I will defer the > question to the group if it hadn't been already. > Mark Rabiner - -- Nathan Wajsman Overijse, Belgium General photo page: http://members.tripod.com/belgiangator Belgium photo page: http://members.xoom.com/wajsman