Where did credit cards come from?
April 08, 2014 at 13:14 PM EDT
U.S. credit card spending reached $2.2 trillion in 2012, an 8.4% increase from 2011, according to an analysis by MasterCard. That’s a lot of money going back and forth by way of plastic, especially when you consider the fact that credit cards have only been around for about 50 years.