Articles About credit card debt
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May 07, 2013Personal Finance: Are Moms the Savings Brains of the Family?
A new survey shows that nearly 70 percent of adult children view their mothers as the go-to choices for personal finance discussions.
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April 10, 2013Will Credit-Card Debt Sink Your Retirement?
Those over the age of 50 carried an average credit-card balance of $8,278...
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April 10, 2013Wednesday’s Mid-Day Movers: 3 Stories Driving Markets
The minutes from the Federal Reserve Open Market Committee meeting were released early, good times roll for real estate, and credit-card debt is on the rise...
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March 25, 2013Will Debt Ruin Your Retirement?
Several factors such as stagnant incomes, high unemployment, and rising living costs have resulted in a 30 percent surge in both secured and unsecured debt...
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March 11, 2013
Is Credit Card Debt Returning to the Glory Days?
The average amount of credit card debt per household increased every quarter last year...
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February 26, 2013Is the Younger Crowd Shunning Debt?
It is too soon to tell if the trend will continue, but those under 35 years old are reducing debt loads substantially faster than older adults...
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February 11, 2013How Cash-Strapped are Americans?
Although the Dow Jones Industrial Average and the S&P 500 are nearing their all-time nominal highs made in 2007, the financial landscape is quite different...
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January 08, 2013Here’s the Confusing Credit Situation
Car purchases and student loans were the biggest culprits in November, as U.S. consumer debt reached a record high (adjusted for the season) of $2.77 trillion...
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March 22, 2012SHOCKER: Student Debt Bubble Hits $1 Trillion
In comparison, the total amount outstanding on credit card balances is about $800 billion...
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October 20, 2011Debt Watch: Student Loans Reaching Record Levels
Here's the latest assessment of the situation...
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June 07, 2011See Why Consumer Debt Unexpectedly Increased in April
Credit card debt was down in April but non-revolving debt more than made up the difference ...
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August 16, 2010If JetBlue’s Steven Slater is Our Hero, We’re Screwed
If the media turns Slater into a hero during one of the worst recessions in a century, they may actually succeed in irresponsibly convincing people fortunate enough to have a job to catalyze a personal tragedy ...
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February 21, 2010Who is to Blame for Credit Card Debt?
Predatory lending aside, this is a philosophical question of liberty ...
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February 16, 20104 Perspectives on Credit Card Defaults
Default rates are still in nosebleed territory ...
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