Financial experts offered five of the key signs you have a serious debt problem — and some steps you can take to fix it. If ...

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) is on a mission to protect consumers from illegal medical debt collection practices. It issued advisories in October identifying illegal practices and ...

Many Americans have heard that they should worry about the staggering size of the national debt. For the first time in modern ...

Debt collectors rarely disappear on their own. Old balances can be sold, resold, and pursued in different ways for years, ...

I don't have to feel bad about it anymore. Let me get the help that I need,'" Tripp told MarketWatch. Many younger consumers need that help, because the debt picture is now glaringly in the red for ...

According to the Congressional Budget Office’s most recent report, at a time of cyclical strength and very low unemployment, the US is running a budget deficit of seven percent of GDP while its public ...

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The national debt has grown to more than $37 trillion. There is mounting concern in some quarters over how soon the ballooning debt will impact the lives of everyday Americans. As Paul Solman explains ...

The wise minds at Moody’s Investors Service finally acknowledged last week what the other two main credit rating agencies did years ago: America has a debt problem. Now it’s time for America to ...

For investors who listened to Dalio’s predictions of a coming “depression” a decade ago, they missed participating in one of the most significant bull markets in U.S. history. Not all debt is created ...

Nam Y. Huh / AP Texas leaders have long touted the state’s robust economy and growing population as symbols of the “Texas miracle.” Yet a handful of recent studies point out a not-so-bright side of ...

If you’re making only the minimum payments due on your credit card every month, you’re throwing money away at a hazardous rate. “Have you found the lowest monthly payment on your credit cards?” said ...