Americans Feel Optimistic About Their Finances This Year
The economy is showing improvements and Americans are doing something about it.
New Years
Every New Year is an opportunity for a fresh start – especially for your finances. In fact, making financial resolutions like eliminating debt and saving more money are now the second most popular resolutions after diet and exercise. Debt.com has the latest tips and advice to help you reach your New Year’s resolutions, as well as predictions for this year in finance so you can make plans and start your year right.
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New Year No Debt: You Don’t Have to Accept Debt As a Way of Life
Just because everyone else is in debt doesn’t mean you have to spend your life paying creditors.
Saving Is the Biggest Money Resolution This Year
The younger you are, the more likely you are to make saving your top New Year’s resolution.
What America Regrets Most About Money
A new Debt.com poll reveals: With big mistakes come big lessons.
Our Pets Are Getting Fatter, And It’s Costing Us Millions
Between the food and the vet, maybe your furball needs a new year’s resolution too.
New Year No Debt: Life Is Better With A Budget
Did you spend 2017 awake at midnight, worrying about bills? Create a budget and sleep debt-free.
New Year No Debt: 10 Steps To Take Control Of Your Finances
Tired of being haunted by the specter of purchases past? Get rid of debt in 2018 and ditch living paycheck to paycheck.
Most Americans Are Setting Financial Goals for the New Year
Making a financial New Year’s resolution is helpful even if you fail at it.
Ringing In The New Year With Recession 2018?
We have to survive 12 months of crushing personal debt to avoid another economic meltdown.
Money on the Street Interviews: What’s Your New Year’s Resolution?
We hit the streets to ask people about their money resolutions for 2018 and explain how to make resolutions you can actually keep.
A Quarter of Americans Struggle to Make Ends Meet
In an effort to reverse their fortunes, they are setting financial goals and sticking to them.
Why Even Bother with New Year’s Resolutions?
This week: The Super Bowl blew up a boyfriend’s promise to pay off debt.
Need a Job? Chances Are You’ll Get One
Forty percent of employers plan to hire permanent, full-time employees and 30 percent plan to hire part-timers this year, even as unemployment is at one of its lowest points in history.
All the Best Places for Your Money in 2017
If you want to make the best investments in 2017, bank at Ally, get a Capital One credit card, and live in Nashville. Those are some of the biggest recommendations from experts as you look to make the best decisions for your money this year.
We’re So Happy About Our Money
Financial optimism is higher now than it was five years ago
What’s In Store For Next Year With Your Taxes?
Higher tax penalties and lower tax bills projected for 2017.
3 Financial Resolutions I’m Getting A Late Start On
Better late than never still means you can save NOW.
Dvorkin on Debt: Your Holiday Debt Hangover Has Arrived
It may not be just a hangover. It might be a disease. Here’s the cure.
Dvorkin On Debt: The Best Things In Life Aren’t Free…
…but sometimes the most important are. Here’s how to get yours.
Dvorkin On Debt: The Only Resolution That Matters
Not all New Year’s resolutions are created equal. Without this one, none of the others are possible.
How Americans’ New Year’s Resolutions Are Going
A new study says that Americans who vowed to lose weight in 2015 are also losing something else: debt.
The Top 10 Financial Predictions for 2015
From legal weed to the mortgage market, here’s what we predict will go down in 2015.
How to Give Away Your Money The Right Way
If your new year’s resolution is to donate to charity, here are 5 tips for stretching those dollars.
Credit Card Predictions For 2015
Debt.com’s credit card reporter saves the best for last: A better way to get airline miles.
Infographic: Your New Year’s Resolution To Get Out Of Debt Just Got Easier
New Years’ resolutions usually end in failure. Here’s how to keep yours and become financially free in 2015.
2014: The year we take happiness seriously?
We love naming our years, and 2013 seems to have been The Year of Working Hard on Happiness. So the Debt.com staff gives its advice for making 2014 the year you can actually BE happy.