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Deep, complex relationship: Americans and their credit cards
If you view yourself as a truly independent and free-thinking person who makes your own decisions and doesn't follow the crowd, you might reasonably take some umbrage with a recent report that unceremoniously dumps most consumers together and essentially questions [...]
Medical bankruptcies: even for people with health insurance?
That above blog headline sounds a bit inexplicable, doesn't it? Just imagine the circular conversation that might surround a discussion on that topic, in which one person who has just filed for bankruptcy protection tries to explain something that a [...]
Under The Microscope: Lender’s Aggressive Debt Collection Strategy
Capital One has a very clear and well-documented strategy for dealing with millions of credit card holders who fall behind on their debt and can’t make payments, even on small loan amounts. The company’s business mantra whenever that occurs is [...]
Making Financial Resolutions For 2016
Today is a day for celebration. Although your debts have not been magically forgiven, nor has your income increased significantly overnight, today is a day that can serve as a significant turning point in your financial life. As the first [...]
America’s Middle Class: Under A Storm Cloud
“[T]he middle class is eroded,” financial services firm Morgan Stanley starkly concludes in a recently released report entitled “Mind the Inequality Gap.” There is certainly no dearth of sobering evidence to back up that assertion. As noted in a CNN [...]
Is The Medical Billing Industry Now Just Flatly Out Of Control?
How can so many Americans maintain solid control over many aspects of their financial lives and yet be so helpless before the onslaught of medical debt? Lots of terms immediately crop up as candidates for describing the exorbitant cost of [...]