The rich and famous lifestyle sometimes hides a shocking and shameful secret: hundreds of thousands of credit card debt. On the outside, the gliteratti and clan of hypervisible celebs seem to be living large and …

If you haven’t seen the movie Maxed Out, go watch it now (you can stream it on Netflix). Not to say that there’s anything completely revelatory about it – we all know that the credit …

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So, I had a situation today that quite literally almost had me loose my cool. A gentleman (not really, but I’ll be nice) of a certain age came into the credit union today and wanted …

I’ve talked before about the difference between banks and credit unions. One thing that I’ve always said about credit unions is that they are a little more lenient in their lending guidelines, which is ironic …

I stumbled across an interesting article that you guys should read. The logic for this article is composed within the byline: “For many poor Americans, credit cards can still be a better deal than payday …

Some of you may have seen this email floating around and found it rather amusing. On the first read through I thought it was funny and didn’t give it much thought, but the second time …

If you haven’t already heard the news, the debt clock in New York has reached it’s capacity and can no longer keep up with the debt. As a temporary solution, they removed the dollar sign …

My friend called me up the other day and wanted to talk finances. Surprisingly, my friends don’t usually come to me for financial advice, it’s usually me offering it without being asked when I see …

Recently I had a client come into the credit union and talk to me about his situation. He’s had a bit of trouble financially over the last several years and he wanted some advice on …

Sounds very official and economic, doesn’t it? Yeah, it’s not mine. That’s a phrase I picked up over at Get Rich Slowly. J.D. had a post that talked about how we tend to throw good …

I came across a poll that I found rather interesting and wanted to share it with you guys to see what you thought. This poll was conducted by Yahoo and went over the financial concerns …

Of the two, which would you say is more important? Do you get rid of the debt so that you can effectively work on the credit score, or do you take care of your credit …

This week at work has been interesting, what with Ike bearing down on us and most of the coast evacuating to our already over-crowded city. Austin wasn’t really prepared to handle the influx of people …