Plastic cards
From sea shells to electrons
A land of local banks, awash in paper checks
The rise of payment cards
From gourmets to the masses
Everywhere you want to be, not everywhere they want to be
Chicken's eggs and other economic conundrums
System wars
Issuer brawls
Puzzles and paradoxes
The antitrust wars
Debit takes off (finally)
And they don't take cash.