The new year provides the opportunity to improve your credit worthiness. Credit is one of the primary engines that runs the American economy and households.
If one of your New Year's resolutions is to pay off your credit card debt, be advised that it's getting harder all the time. That's because credit car...
The credit industry affects all facets of personal finance and being ahead of the curve when it comes to credit issues could certainly help you save money and thereby lower stress. At the very least, you might learn something new!
IMF chief Christine Lagarde on Thursday urged member countries to quickly sign off on an agreement last year to double IMF resources and give unde...
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Thanks to a new kind of credit score, more borrowed money may end up in the hands of the increasing number of Americans who are sliding down the econo...
Fifth Third Bank has pledged to make $5 billion in loans available in Michigan in 2012. That includes $2.5 billion for the Pure Michigan Business C...
Hardly an hour goes by without some pundit pushing the possibility of some kind of run away inflation, with Zimbabwe and Weimar rolling off the tongue...
To provide the much-needed liquidity, the U. S. Small Business Administration is revising its CAPLine program to make lines of credit more acceptable to lenders and more available to small-business owners. However, banks would rather make conventional LOCs rather than hassle with some of the SBA's requirements.
"Burdened Beginnings" is a series examining the problem of child identity theft. Other stories in the series can be found here. Ana Ramirez rents a...
As Occupy Wall Street focuses much of its agenda around the financial health of America, we took a look at the personal side of financial health for both sides of the 1 percent and the 99 percent.
Finances are the foundation for the life you're about to build with someone -- and no one should enter a marriage blindly without assessing whether this foundation is rocky or solid.
Social media is no longer just a buzzword, but really a part of daily life. Now the new thing is a play on the old one, "You've got Klout." Or do you? Or do you have Peerindex? Do you know your grade on Grader? Do you know what your Kred is?
Americans grew wary of credit-card debt during the recession, a time when no one was eager to try to live beyond their means. But in the past two year...
From 24/7 Wall St. After the credit crisis, it’s been encouraging to see that across America credit scores have been slowly improving. Despite ...
The need for access to affordable credit among the unbanked has been met by a steady call for banks to offer small dollar loans.
If you haven't taught your kids about healthy credit, now is the time. While they are in college taking classes to help them obtain a career, what about also helping them build some credit history?
Women account for 75 percent of the agricultural producers in sub-Saharan Africa, but the majority of women farmers are living on only $1.25 per day, according to researchers from the Worldwatch Institute.
The world's most powerful country was brought to the edge of financial chaos by Mrs. Bachmann and her Tea Party cohorts. Americans should never forget the damage that they have caused the whole nation.
If Congress gets smart, goes back into negotiations immediately and comes up with a credible plan to implement budget savings of more than $4 trillion over the next 10 years, the world will have renewed faith in the its largest economy.
We have to begin by understanding that most lenders look at your FICO score to decline or approve you.
There are three distinct outcomes on the table for the U.S. credit rating, according to Standard and Poor's, and each scenario is tied directly to the actions of the leadership in the White House and Congress.
On Friday, July 8th I was a guest on the Today Show to talk about ways to boost your credit score. I had just released my new book, The 90 Day Credit ...
I was fortunate enough to have finance expert Suze Orman join me twice on Mondays with Marlo. She answered so many of your important questions abou...
