The Fed Chairman and his UA Frequent Flyer Card
Dec 17, 2009, 4:40 pm
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The Fed Chairman and his UA Frequent Flyer Card
Whether you think Bernanke deserves Time magazine's Person of the Year selection or not I thought it was quite interesting/curious that of all the things that could be on his wallet, one of them is UA frequent flyer card!. You could actually see it in there, but is it GS, 1K, 1P or what? 
Dec 17, 2009, 4:44 pm
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It could also be a MP Visa card.
Dec 17, 2009, 4:52 pm
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Has to be GS. I have never seen one.
Dec 17, 2009, 4:53 pm
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The black should be a 1K card then... though you'd think UA would comp him GS regardless of $$ spending just for being the money god as fed reserve chair...
Dec 17, 2009, 4:56 pm
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Dec 17, 2009, 4:56 pm
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despite this being FT....Jos A Banks? seriously? wow... NOW I understand why he has no concept of the value of money.
It doesn't look like a MP Visa, the only one with a black background is the RCC card which also has the grey logo in the background of the card.
It doesn't look like a MP Visa, the only one with a black background is the RCC card which also has the grey logo in the background of the card.
Dec 17, 2009, 5:06 pm
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It looks to me like a Red Carpet Club card.
Dec 17, 2009, 5:59 pm
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That definitely looks like the GS card, based on the upper right corner of the card, it looks like a "globe" graphics on it. I have both 1K and RCC card and they don't have anything like that.
Dec 17, 2009, 6:33 pm
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Dec 17, 2009, 6:37 pm
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Whether you think Bernanke deserves Time magazine's Person of the Year selection or not I thought it was quite interesting/curious that of all the things that could be on his wallet, one of them is UA frequent flyer card!. You could actually see it in there, but is it GS, 1K, 1P or what?
Dec 17, 2009, 7:20 pm
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I hope he isn't qualifying on spend
Dec 17, 2009, 7:46 pm
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The card does NOT match the CY10 card for GS I just got. There are a bunch of dots that make up a globe on the top right. This card does not have them. I was not GS last year so do not know if the CY09 card was different.
Dec 17, 2009, 8:45 pm
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Definately the GS card.
Dec 17, 2009, 8:53 pm
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Either GS or 1K 2MM (I saw one of those recently).
Dec 17, 2009, 8:55 pm
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Looks like a GS card to me. Definitely not a 1k card.