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- Your Money: Eliminating Consumer DebtThe importance of paying down consumer debt along with techniques and strategies. Positive results and benefits from reducing personal debt.
- Consumer Debt: Good Versus BadThis is an overview of the advantages and disadvantages to carrying consumer debt.
- Payoff Your Debt with an Easy PlanIf you want to get rid of your credit card, car, and student loan debt but don't know where to start - start here. Implementing a debt snowball is simple and this tool will empower YOU to be in control of your debt.
- First Person: I'm Paying the Future FirstBy paying the future first, I have found financial peace. How the 80/20 savings plan helped me go from broke to whole in 10 years.
- I'm 23, Own My Home, Have No Consumer DebtHere's a twenty something's success story. There should be more like her.
- Five Beginner's Steps Towards Living Debt-FreeFive simple steps anyone can take to get themselves out of debt and on the road to financial freedom.
- Rid Your Debt - Debt RatioLearn more about front-end debt ratios and back-end debt ratios
Blondies' Budgeting PartnerMy current budget goals have taken over my mindset. What I had not given much thought too are my future budget goals. I found a partner to help me balance them.- Consumers Continue to DeleverageEvidence from November and December 2010 indicates that consumers are quite averse to revolving debt (credit cards) but are borrowing for what consumers consider necessities - auto purchases and education.
An Ancient Solution to a Modern ProblemBailout, spending cuts, tax increases, trickle-down, supply-side, class warfare... We have tried them all, and the problem -- spiraling debt, declining confidence -- keeps getting worse. Could an ancient Biblical text hold the answers?
Piles of Debts and Nowhere to TurnMSN Money claims American consumer debts exceed $2 trillion and that doesn't include mortgage notes. This amounts to an average of $20,000 of debt per U.S. citizen.- Do I Need a Debt Advisor?Most financial professionals are only interested in selling you something so they can make a commission. Debt management, however, is a very important part of your financial picture.
- Five Financial Tips for Tough TimesIn these tough economic times, it's important to make the absolute most of the money you work so hard to bring home. Here are five things you can do to preserve, conserve, save, protect and derive the most value from, the money you have.
- How to Avoid DebtA revolutionary new idea on how to avoid credit card debt.
How to Eliminate Your High-Interest Consumer DebtIt's easier than ever to borrow money to pay for all the things you want in life. You'll be offered financing for your house, your car, a large television, new furniture, recreational vehicles and the like. Here's how to pay it off.
A Judge that CARE'sCARE is among the 180 organizations that make up the JumpStart Coalition for Personal Financial Literacy. Laura Levine, JumpStart's executive director, said CARE and other groups "do an amazing job, often with few resources- Top Five Causes of Excessive Consumer DebtsThis article will discuss the top five common causes of excessive debts.
Types of DebtYour credit report is full of all types of debt. Do you know about the different types of debt and how they affect the way lenders see you?- Are You Slipping Behind in Bills or Farther into Debt?A record number of Americans find themselves slipping behind in bills or making less than full payments.
