The holiday season ended months ago, but it is far from a distant memory for millions of credit card holders, who are still paying for it. American consumers spent a record $692 billion dollars during the 2017 holiday season, but less than half of them say ...

Millions of Americans are getting buried in debt, literally. A shocking number are dying with unpaid mortgages, car loans, student loans and credit cards. It’s shocking in the sense that half of those people would be stunned to find out they’re going ...

Military veterans are more likely to suffer through credit problems, underwater mortgages and late house payments than the civilian population. Those are some of the findings from a 2017 analysis funded by the FINRA Investor Education Foundation, an ...

Would you like to save an extra $1,000 in 2018? Maybe you should eliminate that latte on the way to work. How about earning an extra $3,000? That can easily happen by having your hobby work for you. Interested in putting $5,000 into the bank? Would you ...

In the words of rapper/philosopher Jay Z: “You can’t knock the hustle.” Millennials are having to hustle to pay their student loan debt. Over 44 million American have student loan debt, and the average Millennial who graduated in 2016 owes $37,172. ...

When it comes to reducing expenses, a lot of people are like Darwin’s Ape. That’s a famous sculpture of an ape sitting on a stack of books and holding a human skull. It is scratching its chin and staring at the skull, seemingly perplexed at what this ...

We can drive a car at 16, vote at 18, drink at 21, but until recently, we couldn’t rent a car until 25. Fortunately for the 25-and-under crowd, those rules have changed … slightly. Most car-rental agencies now rent to anyone 21-and-older, but ...

Complete reliance on a laptop is one of the most common shared experiences among college students. You stay up late in the library, pounding on your keyboard and thinking to yourself: “Man, I wish I hadn’t spent all day procrastinating on social ...

For most Americans, going carless is unthinkable. You need one to buy groceries, take kids to school, visit a doctor’s office and see friends and family from time to time. Unless you have a very good friend willing to serve as your chauffeur, living without ...

Another month, another budget-crippling cable bill. When will it ever stop? The average cable bill is now $103.15 a month and is increasing year after year, despite more competition. What to do when you can't pay your cable bill anymore? “Cable is ...