The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) is on a mission to protect consumers from illegal medical debt collection practices. It issued advisories in October identifying illegal practices and ...

More than half of financially strained older adults are taking out high-interest borrowing loans, fanning concerns that their ...

Debt collectors rarely disappear on their own. Old balances can be sold, resold, and pursued in different ways for years, ...

Debt collectors will face new federal rules aimed at preventing abuse of consumers, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau will announce Thursday. The bureau is considering proposals to “drastically ...

I don't have to feel bad about it anymore. Let me get the help that I need,'" Tripp told MarketWatch. Many younger consumers need that help, because the debt picture is now glaringly in the red for ...

If you’re making only the minimum payments due on your credit card every month, you’re throwing money away at a hazardous rate. “Have you found the lowest monthly payment on your credit cards?” said ...

The national debt has grown to more than $37 trillion. There is mounting concern in some quarters over how soon the ballooning debt will impact the lives of everyday Americans. As Paul Solman explains ...

The wise minds at Moody’s Investors Service finally acknowledged last week what the other two main credit rating agencies did years ago: America has a debt problem. Now it’s time for America to ...

The wise minds at Moody’s Investors Service finally acknowledged last week what the other two main credit rating agencies did years ago: America has a debt problem. Now it’s time for America to ...

According to the Congressional Budget Office’s most recent report, at a time of cyclical strength and very low unemployment, the US is running a budget deficit of seven percent of GDP while its public ...

Many Americans have heard that they should worry about the staggering size of the national debt. For the first time in modern ...