Written by admin on May 20th, 2009
What’s The Shelf Life For The Frugal American Consumer?
As the scope of the economic crisis spread, more people realized that they were overextended financially. As a result, American consumers have responded quickly, altering their place in the economy, seemingly overnight. There are now far more “savers” than “spenders.”
Continue Reading...Written by admin on November 14th, 2008
Reduce Debt by Controlling Expenses Everywhere
Debt is something that hits you all at once and with overwhelming force, but finding the ways to eliminate it are often elusive. There are those huge items that can’t hide themselves, such as a mortgage or a car payment, but they can’t simply be made to go away. For the purposes of living a [...]
Continue Reading...Written by admin on November 3rd, 2008
Applying Debt Reduction To Your Life
Sometimes we end up having to forgo payments on certain things in order to focus on crucial expenses, such as the mortgage or a vehicle loan. These kind of situations call for drastic measures, and unfortunately you’re left with very few options other than to just do what you can to make ends meet and [...]
Continue Reading...Written by admin on August 6th, 2008
Some Debt Reduction Ideas
Debt can be like many other problems in life such as gambling or alcoholism. No matter how hard they try, people seem to find it impossible to escape the spiral of spending money and increasing their huge debt problem.
We have gathered together a few ideas with the aim of altering the person’s attitude to what [...]
Written by admin on June 15th, 2008
Ways To Reduce Your Debt
Most people would really prefer to have more of a control over their finances than they currently do. When you have excessive debt, it is not very likely that you will have a sense of security about your financial well-being. A lot of debt can be a very hard situation to find any [...]
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- Bankruptcy Fraud On the Rise Written on March 3rd, 2010
- Consumer Loan Defaults Seem to be Slowing Written on February 24th, 2010
- Some Hope…Maybe…For Those Facing Foreclosure Written on February 19th, 2010
- Students are Lured to Colleges by No Fee Applications Written on February 15th, 2010
- Foreclosures Rise In December Disappointing Everyone Written on February 13th, 2010
- December Consumer Wages and Credit Figures Show Little Progress Written on February 9th, 2010
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Bankruptcy Fraud On the Rise
Written on March 3rd, 2010
According to the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) website there were 1.7 million bankruptcies in 2003 and 10 percent of them had fraud involved. Bankruptcy fraud is when a person or company tries to hide assets through the bankruptcy process. The IRS takes this kind of fraud very seriously and will prosecute anyone it suspects [...]
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Consumer Loan Defaults Seem to be Slowing
Written on February 24th, 2010
Consumer loan defaults seem to be slowing down according to the banks. Since the start of the recession there has been a mountain of defaults in both the mortgage and credit card industries. Millions of households are experiencing unemployment or reduced earnings after pay cuts and/or reduced hours. Just last week the U.S. government [...]
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Some Hope…Maybe…For Those Facing Foreclosure
Written on February 19th, 2010
There is some hope still for homeowners wondering if there will be more foreclosure statistics in 2010. The federal government is working on a plan that will hopefully make it easier for people to qualify for the Making Home Affordable program. The government is also trying to find a way to convince banks to [...]
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Students are Lured to Colleges by No Fee Applications
Written on February 15th, 2010
One of the debts that must be managed in many households is college tuition. The cost of attending college continues to rise every year which means the choice of college can have far reaching effects on finances. Choosing a college is not a decision that should be made lightly.