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Credit Cards
With the rise of online shopping, there is no doubt that Americans are using credit cards more than ever. There’s also no doubt that a lot of them are wasting…
What Is Considered Bad Credit? Different lenders have different standards for what bad credit is, and the number is more important than the label that goes with it. The numbers…
Everyone knows the pitch. You’ve spent half an hour trying on clothes off the rack at a shopping mall department store, found three shirts that look perfect and take the…
How do you turn $20,000 into more than $42,000? If you’re talking about credit card debt, all you need to do is make minimum monthly payments. At a minimum payment…
More than one-third of college students say managing a bank account is a major cause of stress. Also, 12% say they never check their bank account balance because it makes…
The soaring popularity of prepaid cards will be put to the test over the next year as providers adjust to new regulations handed down by the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau…
Ric Edelman, a financial adviser who is a best-selling author and syndicated radio show host, remembers the days when everyone rushed to the bank on a Friday afternoon to cash…
If you want to break up the loud party that your neighbor’s millennial kid is throwing in his basement bedroom, don’t call the cops. Just barge over and pass out…
How to Reduce Credit Card Interest Credit cards have some great perks (who doesn’t love cash back?), but pesky high interest rates can cancel out those benefits. High interest rates…
Dave Ramsey has made the term “Debt Snowball” famous, but if you’re buried under an avalanche of debt, is his remedy more like a debt snow job? Ramsey disciples would…