Debt

The curtain can't go down fast enough on the summer theater of the absurd over the federal debt and deficit in Washington D.C. The apocalyptic...

Every day on Marketplace Money we get questions from people struggling to pay down their debts and save more. It's hard to do. The movement toward...

Our Minneapolis caller is a 27-year-old single mom with a pile of student loans and an equally large pile of credit card bills and medical debt....

A theme of these posts is the importance of savings and not just for retirement. You should save to fund a series of transitions throughout a...

The current negotiation over the debt limit is critical for the economy. Here's one way of measuring the stakes....

Question: Hi Chris - my wife and I are considering taking out a small home equity loan or line of credit for a home project ($6-7K). We have plenty...

There's a vote tonight (Tuesday evening) on raising the federal government's debt limit ceiling. House Republicans are bringing up the vote even...

Question: My husband and I have quite of a bit of debt, and we have just had our first child. In addition to a mortgage, we have old credit card...

Question: I currently have $18,000 of non subsidized Stafford Student loans and 13,000 of personal student loans. Then I have 20,000 in auto loans...

Question: We are trying to decide what our next step is to help us with our debt. We have been in debt for several years and we have always been...