Having more than $10,000 in student loan debt has a way of piquing your interest in personal finance. And because my degree was in English and public communication, I get to share that interest with you. My wide-ranging stories on money and business have run on Business Insider, the Christian Science Monitor, Reader’s Digest, the front pages of MSN.com and Yahoo! Finance, Money Talks News, and the South Florida Business Journal. In my free time, I like to jump off skyscrapers and play video games.
Given that he racked up tens of thousands in debt for baseball tickets, the justice would personally benefit from better credit card regulations and consumer education about living beyond your means.
Creating a new branch of the military wouldn’t come cheap. There are way better uses for the money.
American Express just won its Supreme Court case, meaning it gets to fight discounts retailers would give to consumers for using their competition’s cards.
Housing affordability is a major concern, but that doesn’t mean home ownership is out of reach. From Chicago to Dallas, the salary required to afford a home might be less than you’d expect.
Donald Trump finally has a nominee to replace interim director Mick Mulvaney. But she’s no more qualified than he is.
They come with more risks, like higher interest rates and less flexible repayment. But then they’re not a federal headache anymore.
Nothing in credit lasts forever — good or bad.
You’ve gotten the emails. Here’s what the data regulation is actually about — and how we could do better.
For-profit colleges have ruined people for years. The Education Department — and Trump — no longer cares.
Major media outlets focused on one stat: how little people have saved for an emergency. That’s old news. The interesting stuff was on education.
Where will consumers go with their complaints about loan servicers now? Certainly not the Education Department.
Experts say there’s a definite relationship between debt and depression. But we don’t like talking about either one.
The worst way to get out of debt is to pay the bare minimum. Find out how much that would hurt where you live.
T-Mobile and Sprint say their merger would be a jobmaker, but consumers could lose out.
At this point, it’s hard to say which arm of the federal government is more confused — or what it means for consumers.
Trump is auditing the U.S. Postal Service over his hatred of Amazon. Good!
It looks like we blew a huge hole in the deficit for almost no consumer benefit.
The agency wants to ease up on payday and student loans, but seems weirdly committed to handling debt collector complaints.
Nobody has read it all yet, but there is some good news for consumers.
Betsy DeVos is asserting her right to be useless and fighting back against states that want to help student loan borrowers, insisting they have to be just as useless as her.
Republicans want to protect a lousy company from veterans — and give it power in the mortgage market.
Trump’s tax plan was supposed to spur economic growth and provide consumer prosperity. When’s that coming, exactly?
Untargeted tariffs on steel and aluminum will raise prices on beer, cars, and possibly a whole lot more.
They want to let big banks take big risks and go for broke — regardless of the consequences.
Debt.com’s political columnists go head-to-head on what the latest news in Washington means for consumer finance.
Forget “too big to fail.” Now we’re in “too failing to grow.”
Trump hit on unemployment, GDP, taxes, and deregulation. He needs to talk more about wages, infrastructure, and education.
If we have to resign ourselves to never passing a budget, we might as well get something good out of the next few shutdowns. Let’s fix student loans.
Ready to pay more for gas? Business leaders and Democrats agree it’s a good idea.
A new bill in Congress would fine credit reporting agencies bigly for not protecting our information. It’s four years overdue.
Trump wasted no time wrecking the consumer agency, with bad moves on mortgages and prepaid cards.
I promise it’s not as dumb as Oxford’s “youthquake.”
Neutering the CFPB will have a long-lasting impact on the way we borrow and spend.
He didn’t accomplish a lot, but I’ll give him credit for this.
Whichever version of this passes is going to suck, unless there’s a radical change of heart. And brain.
It’s easy to elevate someone already on the board. Now he has to nominate someone new.
Betsy DeVos already manages the smallest Cabinet agency, but she wants to cut her way to more savings. It won’t work, and it’s awful for struggling students.
The department’s leader is leaving. He may be the only one it ever had.
It makes no sense to punish your wallet for someone else’s political transgressions.
It’s been a year since America elected Trump. What have we got to show for it?
He signed a law undoing consumer protections for class-action lawsuits against financial abuse.
They’ve got — and are ignoring — a bill on bankrupting student loans. But what about these ideas states are considering?
Trump’s tax plan benefits him more than anybody else. But he doesn’t have to fight to change policy here… he could just leave.
We’re most scared of dealing with emergencies, losing our jobs, and outliving our savings.
Whether it’s retirement, health care, or identity theft, Trump has done some frightening things — that’s no trick.
This spooky map looks at how long it takes to pay off the typical credit card debt in every state.
His first real Supreme Court term starts this week, and his opinions will start affecting our financial lives.
If Donald Trump wants an easy win, promote financial literacy. It really does make a difference, according to the CFPB.
After years of mushy Obamacare repeal, Bernie Sanders gives us something concrete to debate.
The federal agency continues to aggressively battle companies that confuse and shortchange consumers.
