Two weeks ago, Ann Minch of Red Bluff, Calif. announced in a YouTube video that she'd launched a one-woman "Debtors' Revolt" and would refuse to pay o...
washingtonpost.com | Binyamin Appelbaum and Nancy Trejos | Posted 11.21.2009 | Business
A backlash is brewing on Capitol Hill against banks that charge large fees for overdrafts without asking or telling customers, the latest sign that th...
Posted 11.15.2009 | Business
Despite optimistic pronouncements from the nation's financial stewards, a recovery is not in the cards. At least not anytime soon, judging by the late...
HuffingtonPost.com | Arthur Delaney | Posted 11.14.2009 | Business
For years, Ann Minch of Red Bluff, Calif., has carried a balance of several thousand dollars on her Bank of America credit card, making minimum monthl...
The New York Times | RON LIEBER and ANDREW MARTIN | Posted 11.09.2009 | Business
The Federal Reserve is considering requiring banks to get permission from consumers before enrolling them in overdraft programs, so that consumers lik...
The Wall Street Journal | ANNE MARIE CHAKER | Posted 10.18.2009 | Home
Students are borrowing dramatically more to pay for college, accelerating a trend that has wide-ranging implications for a generation of young people....
Reuters | Juan Lagorio | Posted 09.28.2009 | Business
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Millions of Americans have already seen their credit card limits shrink, and millions more face the same fate as lenders prepare ...
Roseanne Colletti | Posted 09.26.2009 | Living
No more free T-shirts, pizza and the like. Beginning in February, college students who apply for credit cards will need proof of income.
Don McNay | Posted 09.24.2009 | Business
When three people who know about money go to the extreme of not owning any credit cards, others might want to take note.
Karen Stabiner | Posted 09.24.2009 | Living
It's that time of year again. All over the country, people are loading up the family car, paying airline overage for heavy suitcases, or shi...
Jill Schlesinger | Posted 09.20.2009 | Business
Credit card reform was needed, but it's not likely to help Americans kick their credit card habit just yet.
AP | Posted 09.19.2009 | Business
WILMINGTON, Del. — Chase Card Services, a unit of JPMorgan Chase & Co., said Wednesday it will now offer a rewards card designed for wealthy cus...
CNN | Ben Rooney | Posted 09.17.2009 | Politics
Even after the Federal Reserve reduced their borrowing costs, the nation's banks raised credit card rates and boosted profit from the consumer debt in...
AP | DEVLIN BARRETT | Posted 09.17.2009 | Business
WASHINGTON — Federal prosecutors on Monday charged a Miami man with the largest case of credit and debit card data theft ever in the United Stat...
Washington Post | Nancy Trejos | Posted 09.15.2009 | Business
Credit card rewards programs are suddenly less rewarding. Months before a new law takes effect restricting the credit card industry's ability to rais...
Georges Ugeux | Posted 09.05.2009 | Business
European bank losses were as high as the U.S. They used the same compensation system, and their fragmented and ineffective regulatory system shares responsibility for the crisis.
Leslie Pratch, Ph.D. | Posted 08.25.2009 | Business
If parties are not mutually and equally well informed, those with more information are likely to wind up with all of the wealth and those with less information will wind up with none of the wealth.
Don McNay | Posted 08.22.2009 | Living
I've dealt with hundreds of parents of special needs children. They take the hand that is dealt to them. And usually turn that hand into aces.
Deepak Bhargava | Posted 08.22.2009 | Business
The "Do Nothing Coalition" has turned its back on the citizens it's supposed to represent.
HuffingtonPost.com | Arthur Delaney | Posted 09.21.2009 | Business
James O'Connell of California wrote the Huffington Post in response to an item about credit card companies tightening payment requirements for cardhol...
Max Fraad Wolff | Posted 08.08.2009 | Business
Perhaps our economy is part of the reason millions are interesting in grieving.
HuffingtonPost.com | Arthur Delaney | Posted 08.01.2009 | Business
As lawmakers worked out credit card reform legislation earlier this year, card issuers argued that tough restrictions would make credit costlier for c...
Beth Kobliner | Posted 07.31.2009 | Business
Today, the culture of debt our children have inherited, and embraced, should be regarded as a national crisis and reacted to accordingly. To this generation, debt is far from a dirty word.
New York Post | catherine curan | Posted 07.30.2009 | Business
Just weeks after President Obama signed into law new rules clamping down on runaway credit card fees, banks are accelerating their push for plastic pr...
Don McNay | Posted 07.25.2009 | Business
We have a financial system that has played to people's weaknesses. We have allowed people who are prone to instant gratification to have as much credit as they could get their hands on.
HuffingtonPost.com | Arthur Delaney | Posted 11.21.2009 | Business