Remember the BillFixers brothers I wrote about last month (and I’ll write about each month in The BillFixers Files). That story got a lot of attention: I did a version for NBCNews.com, the New York Times picked it up, and NBC Nightly News is going to feature the brothers on national [Keep reading]
Let’s say you could use some extra cash, and someone offered you a quick-and-dirty part-time gig with OUTRAGEOUS pay. Say …$200 an hour. SCORE, right? Well, I’m here to tell you that just about every one of us has a $200-an-hour job lying somewhere nearby, if only we know how to [Keep reading]
Even under normal circumstances, racial discrimination can be hard to spot. Identifying discrimination in car purchases and loans is particularly challenging, however – auto dealers don’t have to log the ethnicity of borrowers, and car loan terms are often bargained as part of a complex transaction. Still, the Consumer Financial [Keep reading]
Call them the invisible victims of the housing collapse: The millions of homeowners who’ve spent nearly a decade dutifully making mortgage payments on homes worth less than the balance of their loans. Known as “being under water,” many in this crowd were never in danger of losing their home. But [Keep reading]
Middle-class struggles — the kind I am covering in my Restless Project — are now front and center in this year’s presidential election . And whatever you think about his ideas, Bernie Sanders deserves credit for sharpening the spotlight on those struggles. Whether his ideas — which are unquestionably radical [Keep reading]
U.S. consumers have finally been liberated from archaic technology that used to protect them and their credit cards from identity theft. Millions of Americans now have chip-enabled credit cards. And now the results of this sweeping change are in. Just as many consumers were hit by ID theft last year [Keep reading]
When you think Ohio, you probably think Cleveland, and you might think Cincinnati. Almost certainly, you don’t think Columbus, but here’s a secret: Ohio’s capital city is larger than its more famous neighbors to the north and south. In fact, it’s the largest U.S. city to make Credit.com’s top 10 [Keep reading]
What do the presidential candidates think of domestic intelligence collection — or spying on Americans, depending on your point of view? What do they think of Ed Snowden? We haven’t heard a lot about the NSA or Snowden during the noisy campaigns so far, and that’s a shame. That’s because all [Keep reading]
Breaking news: Big event ticket sales are a broken marketplace that hurts both consumers and entertainers. Just kidding, everybody knows that. It’s remarkable that both the industry and regulators remain seemingly helpless to fix the problem. With Bruce Springsteen songs still hanging in the air above Madison Square Garden, New York [Keep reading]
Tonight is the last Republican debate before the Iowa caucuses — the last time voters can hear from candidates before votes that actually count are … counted. And what are we talking about? Donald Trump vs. Fox News. That’s sad, because if you haven’t noticed, there’s a lot wrong with [Keep reading]
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