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Disruptive events rarely wait until it’s convenient, and that’s doubly true for consumers whose credit scores have gone south. Nonetheless, there are moments when those with rocky credit histories absolutely…
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Credit counseling is designed to help consumers avoid bankruptcy and escape living paycheck-to-paycheck. Credit counselors offer advice on budgeting, managing money and other basics of finance. They assist people unsure…
Security breaches have become so commonplace in the United States that news around them barely causes a ripple these days. Even if it’s news that provides consumers an extra layer…
For peer-to-peer lenders, the Great Recession was manna from heaven. When banks clamped down on lending to all but their best-heeled customers after the 2008 global economic meltdown, fledgling peer-to-peer…
The lives of American consumers are increasingly like open books: vulnerable to sophisticated cyber-snoopers capable of discovering a great deal about how people save and spend. Yet even as the…
Consumer rights sound like it would be a given in America, but it wasn’t until the 1960’s that the government first acted to protect consumers. It started with the Consumer…
Identity theft is the fastest-growing crime in America for the very obvious reason that most of us have made our most valuable personal information — name, address, social security number,…
Want to guess at a community’s financial health? Abandoned houses or vacant shopping centers are an obvious sign things aren’t good, but a more subtle indication of financial insecurity is…
Did you know that scam artists and predatory lenders come out of the woodwork during times of crisis? Whether it’s after a natural disaster, during a recession, or in the…