It's a common dilemma: Should you put all your spare cash toward paying down debt, or build up your emergency savings—or a little of both?
It's a serious question now. If you lost your job, the average length of unemployment is about 33 weeks&...
Expert:Gerri Detweiler
Reader:Julie
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Welcome to Season 1 of The Money Fix! With the help of top national money experts, nine DW readers will tackle real-life money problems, and blog about their progress—righ...
Capitalizing on the wave of Americans desperate to ditch their debts, a slew of new debt settlement companies have hit the scene, with flashy TV and radio ads promising to make your debt disappear.
But many engage in "abusive, fraudulent and deceptive ...
Erica Sandberg is a credit expert and columnist for Creditcards.com. She is also the author of "Expecting Money: The Essential Financial Plan for New and Growing Families." Should you co-sign a loan or credit card for a friend or relative? I get this question a lo...
DailyWorth recently reviewed Spent. The following is an exclusive post by Cardella for our readers.
Sigh.
So often we focus on the dollars and cents necessary to get our financial life back on track—and fail to acknowledge the emotional currency req...
Two national debt debacles have been popping into the headlines lately:
For the last 18 months, some 650,000 homeowners haven't paid their mortgages; many are using the money to get back on their feet.
As 1.7 million students look...
You know Kenia. She's a devoted DailyWorth reader (and commenter) who works as a systems engineer in California. Here, her get-out-of-student-loan-debt report.
In January, after three years of repaying my student loans—without much progress—my...
Erica Sandberg is a credit expert and columnist for Creditcards.com. She is also the author of "Expecting Money: The Essential Financial Plan for New and Growing Families."
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Q: I just checked my credi...
This post is a follow-up to Debt Diets Part I and Part II."
Mary Reed and Gerri Detweiler are co-authors of "Debt Collection Answers: How to Use Debt Collection Laws to Protect Your Rights." They also answer debt questions at DebtCollection...
As you may have guessed from my debut post, I'm not the best at setting goals. In fact, it has been hard to live up to my goal of... setting some goals.
To me, setting any kind of goal was always a double-edged sword. On the one hand, they're motiv...
This post is a follow up to "Debt Diet, Part I."
Gerri Detweiler and Mary Reed are co-authors of "Debt Collection Answers: How to Use Debt Collection Laws to Protect Your Rights." They also answer debt questions at DebtCollectionAnswers...
