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The day of reckoning is fast approaching for annual budgets and it may not be a good one for people who rely on credit cards. Annual bills often collide with…
Get ready America, the Holiday Shopping Circus is rolling into your town again this year and no one is immune from the excitement it generates. Least of all someone with…
What settles arguments in your house: Facts or opinion? That seems like a loaded, but relatively easy question. Facts win, right? Well, sometimes. A study by Dartmouth College suggested that…
The average credit score for American consumers is at an all-time high, but will almost surely go higher within the next year as credit bureaus and government tinker with one…
The duel between debt and income is spilling over into the retirement years for more and more people. At one time, it was common to have all the major bills…
I thought we could avoid it. I promoted alternatives. But it was inevitable. My daughter asked me to throw her a Frozen birthday party, like the half dozen we’d already…
Do you think you know your credit score? Credit scores – the numeric measure that shows lenders whether a person is likely to repay a loan – are a must-have…
I went shopping for a cell phone the other day and found out I’m not as special as I thought I was. I have never owned one and for at…
Admit it. You’ve considered de-friending the person that challenged you to the Ice Bucket challenge on Facebook. The videos that are flooding your news feed are all apart of the…
Not sure you are aware of this, but the cell phone industry will pass a fairly significant milestone this year and there is a good chance I could be the…
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