Debt Blog

Hoping to buy a home? Be nice to your landlord.

I admit it. I majored in English. You can laugh and make "You want fries with that?" jokes now.

As it turns out, however, I'm in better shape than many because I didn't attend a for-profit college.

New research shows these places can be a debt trap, saddling people with huge student loans they can't hope to repay because they can't find a job after graduation.

If you settle your credit card debt for less than what you owe, you might be hopeful for a future with a fresh start.

But first, you'll have to deal with the IRS.

What got into Barack Obama yesterday?

He stood up to the banks.

A while back I told you about the snowball method for eliminating debt. It seems that some academics have melted it.

The Center for Responsible Lending is out with a new report on the housing mess, and it says what we feared: This ain't over yet.