Monthly Archives: November 2023
3 Practical Strategies for Paying Down Credit Card Debt
Everyone knows that the best way to pay down credit card debt is to increase your income and reduce your spending, but if you had a feasible way to do either of those things, you would have already done them. As it stands, you spend all of your waking hours on income-generating activities. Whenever… Read More »
Anatomy of a Predatory Loan
In certain contexts, telling people not to engage with predatory lenders sounds less like helpful advice and more like blaming the victim. No one would choose to take out a loan with an interest rate in excess of 100 percent unless they reasonably believed that they had no other choice. People use payday loans,… Read More »
4 Bummers About Bankruptcy
No one goes to bankruptcy court expecting that filing for bankruptcy will feel like taking a victory lap, but many applicants go into the bankruptcy process with an excess of optimism. Bankruptcy will take away some of your debts, but only if you hold up your end of the bargain, and even then, you… Read More »
Should You Pay Someone to Repair Your Credit or Settle Your Debt?
Advertisements for credit repair services and debt settlement companies know that you are in financial distress, and they know where to find you. You wouldn’t be watching television or listening to the radio unless you were so broke that you had no authority to choose your own background noise at work, or unless you… Read More »