How is it that so many people who consolidate their debts, or receive some kind of financial windfall, find themselves right back where they started, often within a few short years or less? People sell their homes to find they have absolutely no ...

Plenty of studies have shown that men and women think and act in different ways, but when it comes to credit card debt, both sexes demonstrate bad behavior. NextAdvisor.com recently compiled research on men, women, and credit card debt that ...

Having debt puts everybody into a position of vulnerability. The degrees of this vulnerability vary widely: For most people – for those using the credit card that gets paid off every month, for most of those with a mortgage and for just about ...

We all know companies and people the world over are competing for the money in your wallet. Would you believe there's stiff (and growing) competition for your debt too? Unfortunately you probably shouldn't go running out to jump in with the first ...

Gifts have been given, dinners have been hosted and the holidays are winding down. When the credit card bill arrives, what's your reaction? Hide the bill? Freak out? HSBC says the way to deal with holiday debt is to develop a plan - and avoid ...

If you're like any number of other people out there (this writer included), you have debt. If you have enough of it you may have noticed the growing number of advertising campaigns out there which have you, my dear target audience, locked squarely in ...

I just found out why debt is such a prevalent topic out there these days (aside from the fact that we all have some and that interest rates can't stay low forever). There's a Statistics Canada number that surprised me when I read it: Between 1984 ...

By Levi Ennis, as told to Michele Lerner Daily Finance When my wife, Jennifer, and I got married in March 2010, we thought we were OK financially, kind of like everyone else. Jennifer was working two jobs, and I was working at one ...