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Posted: March 10th, 2010, 5:49pm CST
With unemployment high and personal wealth diminished, how did consumers pay down so much credit card debt last year? It turns out they may not have.
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Posted: March 10th, 2010, 5:45pm CST
With unemployment high and personal wealth diminished, how was it that strapped consumers were paying down their credit card debt last year? It turns out they probably weren't.
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Posted: March 10th, 2010, 5:45pm CST
With unemployment high and personal wealth diminished, how was it that strapped consumers were paying down their credit card debt last year? It turns out they probably weren't. The bulk of 2009's drop in credit card debt instead came because banks were forced... Credit card - Federal Reserve System - CardHub.com - Personal Finance - Debt
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Posted: March 10th, 2010, 5:11pm CST
Five members of a College Point family, a Jamaica resident, a Laurelton resident, a Flushing resident and four other people have been indicted in connection with a fraudulent credit card scheme, Queens District Attorney Richard Brown’s office said last Thursday.The defendants, who include five P.C. Richard & Sons...
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Posted: March 10th, 2010, 5:04pm CST
March 11 (Bloomberg) -- Latvian elections this autumn threaten to hamper government efforts to push through austerity measures vital to its international bailout, burdening the country’s credit rating, Fitch Ratings said.
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Posted: March 10th, 2010, 1:08pm CST
Repaying big card balances is hard enough, but remaining debt-free is even more so. Learn how seven credit card 'disasters' turned into credit card masters.
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Posted: March 10th, 2010, 8:20am CST
Image Credit: MTV Based on the show’s title alone, you know the basics about last night’s episode of 16 and Pregnant . What the title doesn’t tell you is that the teen moms on the show can sometimes defy preconceived notions and make really good decisions. Case in point: Chelsea.
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Posted: March 10th, 2010, 7:08am CST
It's no secret that small businesses in the U.S. face difficulties accessing credit. According to a survey of a random sample of 751 small businesses conducted by Gallup at the end of 2009 for the National Federation of Independent Business Research Foundation, 44% of small businesses seeking credit in 2009 received only some or none of the money they sought. This level of credit access compares ...
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Posted: March 9th, 2010, 9:09pm CST
Did a bad credit history keep you from getting hired when you applied for a job? Be interviewed for a story. Contact reporter Bonna Johnson at 615-726-5990 or bjohnson@tennessean.com.
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Posted: March 9th, 2010, 8:19pm CST
President Barack Obama stood with Greek Prime Minister George Papandreou on Tuesday and pledged that the United States would work with its ally, even as Greece's enormous debts sparked frenzied trading.