# American Express (AMEX)
What Happens If Your Card Gets Closed by the Bank?
With the latest AMEX account-closing wave, people worry not only about whether they can recover their points, but also about what other side effects may follow. Here’s what you sho...
Best Credit Cards for Streaming Spend
Streaming services are becoming more and more common—Apple Music, Apple TV, Disney, YouTube memberships, and others—and the total subscription cost can add up over a year. This pos...
Apple Card: Get 6 Months of Uber One Free
Apple Card has quietly added a benefit for six months of Uber One membership. You can sign up through the link below. Offer link...
AMEX Schwab Investor Card: $300 Welcome Bonus
The welcome bonus on this card has increased to $300, likely the highest offer available only once this year. Offer ends on June 11....
MeiKa 101 Knowledge Planet Soft-Launch Recap (April 1 to April 30, 2025)
Soft-Launch Recap (2025 April 1–April 30) The Planet has completed a full month of soft launch and has basically reached the results I had expected. So far there are 30+ guest memb...
AMEX Agrees to Pay $108,700,000 to Settle Marketing Fraud Allegations
Given AMEX’s recent wave of reviews and shutdowns of business credit cards, this was likely part of an internal account review after the penalties. If you have a card that was obta...
AMEX Offer: Spend $50 at Amazon for 500 points, usable three times
A good new AMEX OFFER has launched: spend $50 on Amazon and get 500 MR points, and you can do it three times—for a total of 1,500 points. You can use our 101 Chrome extension to ad...
Business Checking Accounts Explained (with Application Steps)
For those of us who care about account-opening bonuses, business checking accounts often offer very generous sign-up bonuses and usually do not have the annoying Direct Deposit req...
How to File Taxes Online with OLT (NRA Version)
OLT is a great option for filing taxes for U.S. “cloud residents” who are not in the U.S. The tax return it generates can help prevent AMEX FR from sending a 4065T; if you do not h...
AMEX New Referral Bonus: 30,000 Points per Referral, Up to 100,000 Points, and 5x Travel/Transportation!
Thanks to our ZhishiXingQiu friend ISAAC for sharing, AMEX has rolled out a new referral reward program. The referral reward has been doubled from 15,000 points to 30,000 points, a...
AMEX Pay Over Time Offer Guide: Another Round of 20,000 MR Points—Worth Checking
According to ISSAC in the US Credit Card 101 Knowledge Planet group, AMEX has sent out another round of targeted Pay Over Time offers worth 20,000 Membership Rewards points over th...
