Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. True Tamplin is on a mission to bring financial literacy into schools. Debit and credit cards may look the same at checkout, both ...

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Debit cards pull funds directly from your bank account when making purchases or withdrawing cash. Setting up a PIN and monitoring account balances via mobile apps helps avoid overspending and fees.

Sometime around 2007, Marc Fusaro, then a professor at East Carolina University, sat in a friend’s kitchen and explained that he was researching the methods people use to rein in their credit-card ...