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 ...

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

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

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 ...

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 ...

Nam Y. Huh / AP Texas leaders have long touted the state’s robust economy and growing population as symbols of the “Texas miracle.” Yet a handful of recent studies point out a not-so-bright side of ...

Generation Z are entering adulthood with more financial burdens than any previous generation, according to a new survey. A ...

As inflation continues to hit families across the U.S., a new survey has revealed that credit card debt is a growing concern for more than half of Americans. According to exclusive poll data from a ...

LONDON (Reuters) - Figures show that, as a nation, we worked the first 83 days of this year just earning enough money to service the interest on our personal debts. Almost all of our January, February ...

For investors who listened to Dalio’s predictions of a coming “depression” a decade ago, they missed participating in one of the most significant bull markets in U.S. history. Not all debt is created ...

From the Covid-19 pandemic to advanced-economy interest-rate hikes, developments over the last few years have left many developing economies struggling to repay their debts. But the problem might be ...