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In every crisis, financial opportunities arise. COVID-19 is no different. The economic downturn associated with the lock downs and business closures have presented upsides. Some are fraudulent, [...]

Before making the decision to file bankruptcy, take a long, hard look at finances to see if bankruptcy is really necessary. This is sometimes painful because it involves facing past financial [...]

I went to the cleaners this morning to pick up my shirts. Usually their shop is buzzing with activity: workers pressing shirts, suits and dresses; retrieving cleaned items for customers; hauling [...]

Coronavirus has the economy on the ropes. The market has given back all of the gains it made since Trump’s inauguration over three years ago, and the slide looks nowhere over. Retirement [...]

Before a person can file bankruptcy, she has to take a consumer credit counseling class offered by an approved provider. Then, once having filed, before she can get her discharge she has to take [...]

This article in the American Bar Association Journal caught my attention. The long and short of it is that a new associate at a huge law firm bought his fiancee a $100,000 (yep, six figures) [...]

According to new figures released regarding the recent holidays, the average American family incurred $1,054 in credit card debt during the giving season. The average credit card rate of interest [...]

Criminal charges have been filed against a telemarketing company in New York. According to the complaint, these telemarketers preyed on the elderly by promising them high returns for simply [...]

Today I saw another sponsored “news” story on the Internet touting homes as a great investment. This kind of thinking infuriates me because it leads so many people to play around with [...]

The two guys in this picture are probably about one case of beer into their DIY project. Anyone looking at this can see it’s a disaster waiting to happen. What WERE they thinking? Too often [...]