Payday loans and car-title loans aren’t just potentially hazardous to your financial health. They also might harm your physical health.
Payday Loans vs. Car Title Loans
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Mark Cuban’s wise credit card debt advice
Q&A with Neal Roese: Dealing with credit card debt
If you’re dealing with credit card debt, and paying high interest on it, you’re certainly in good company.
6 lessons you can learn from Joey Lawrence’s bankruptcy
Whoa! Actor Joey Lawrence’s lovable but dense TV character, Joey Russo, uttered that catchphrase on the 1990s sitcom “Blossom,” and the phrase has been synonymous with Lawrence ever since.
How consumers are using credit
You may think that keeping up with the Joneses is the reason Americans are using credit and racking up record credit card debt. But, you’d be wrong. Turns out that needful items like food, medical expenses and housing are literally breaking the bank and causing people to turn to credit cards to make ends meet.
Ivanka Trump’s credit card debt is a lesson in how not to use credit cards
She’s a multimillionaire. Her husband’s a multimillionaire. Her dad’s a reported billionaire. Why, then, is first daughter Ivanka Trump swimming in credit card debt, as recently reported by news website Politico?
How to get a personal loan
Sure, it’s ideal to always have enough savings in the bank for life’s major expenses, such as medical bills, home improvements or paying off credit card debt. But sometimes life happens, and you need to get a personal loan in order to afford something important.
9 unconventional ways to get out of credit card debt
If you’re swimming in credit card debt, it’s easy to figure out conventional ways to get rid of it. You might take out a debt consolidation loan, for instance, or transfer the balance from a high-interest credit card to a card offering a special no-interest period.
Q&A with Preston D. Cherry: Using small-win financial goals to achieve big outcomes
When it comes to achieving long-term goals for our personal finances, it can sometimes be difficult to see the end outcome. And figuring out what steps to take in order to reach that goal can be somewhat mind numbing. But according to our expert guest, Preston D. Cherry, using small-win financial goals may help us to hit the bigger ones.
Infographic: 68% of Americans doubt they will ever be debt-free
If you find it hard to believe you’ll ever be debt-free, you’re certainly not alone. You’re in the same boat as around two-thirds of Americans.