In an article titled "Closing the Deal at the Virtual Checkout Counter", Claire Cain Miller writes for the New York Times about how consumers sometimes load up their shopping carts online - and then just abandon them. She notes that "while there is no industrywide data, some e-commerce companies estimate that only about 3 percent of shoppers who visit an e-commerce site buy something, and when they do load their shopping carts, as many as two-thirds abandon them."

Last week, WAMU's DIane Rehm hosted a program focused on Consumer Credit Protections - including overdraft fees. Participants included Kathleen Day, Center for Responsible Lending, Diane Casey-Landry, Chief Operating Officer, American Bankers Association, and Nancy Trejos, Washington Post Personal Finance Writer. I was surprised at some of the lack of understanding about how debit cards actually work - as expressed by one participant in particular on this program!

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