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Without a proper payback strategy, acquiring loans may send your credit down the drain. Bankrate suggests that reasons for debt can range from medical bills to divorce to not understanding the mechanics of cash flow and the importance of saving. Whatever the reason or combination of reasons,...

Millennial ghouls and boogies, with Halloween here, the holiday shopping season has unofficially begun. Forget harmless pranks and spooktacular extravaganzas, for many, the scariest part of this season is only a few clicks away or an unopened bank statement. Just as the most frightening horror...

While nobody goes into a marriage expecting divorce as the outcome, statistics show that the possibility should be taken into account. According to Divorce Statistics, on average in America, 45–50 percent of all first marriages end in divorce. The likelihood increases with each subsequent...

To some investors, Apple Inc. (NASDAQ: AAPL)'s growing debt level serves as a case against investing in the company. However, it is reasonably safe to assume that Apple's debt levels won't cause any sort of financial crisis. The same can reasonably be said for some of Apple's largest technology...

While the reasons vary and debt in and of itself is not an indicator of a person's character, cyclical debt is highly problematic. Unlike a single instance of debilitating debt caused by inexplicable bad fortune, cyclical debt is the yo-yo dieting of the financial realm. Individuals make poor money...

Amazon.com, Inc. (NASDAQ: AMZN) and Wells Fargo & Co (NYSE: WFC) have ended their student loan partnership, just over a month after its announcement, according to a report on Bloomberg. Bloomberg cited Catherine Pulley, a Wells Fargo spokeswoman, as saying Wednesday that the "promotion for...

"Saturday Night Live," the iconic late-night comedic sketch broadcast, has been garnering audiences' attention for decades. And, the appeal far exceeds slapstick humor or boarder-line inappropriate shtick. Comedians get away with brutal honesty veiled in humor, while others couldn't hope to express...

Regardless of how old you are, there's something you should be doing to prep for retirement. From basic planning strategies to hunkering down for the last lap, keep track of where you are on the journey. It starts much earlier than most people assume. Before 25 While advice for young adults...

When you've found yourself in deep debt, the kind that can physically make you ill when you think about your income versus your spending habits, it's easy to cajole yourself into a state of submission. By actively ignoring the issue (too much outflow for too little income) and passively...

Debt is a part of business. Corporations employ debt to build their businesses bigger and faster than they could if they had to rely solely on their earnings With that said, debt can also be a crippling burden, as interest payments eat away at returns, debt covenants put pressure on its management...

Debt happens to many people, but some face a debt situation unlike the "average" graduate who carries loan debts and has a plan for paying them off, or the homeowner who has a mortgage payment and a car loan. Seemingly insurmountable debt, however, is a different beast. This debt is the debt that...

Credit is one of those notoriously confusing financial vehicles. It's the bane of many people's existence, but it is also all-but essential for financially independent survival. It's a device that can hinder or help future financial investments, and the decisions made that have reciprocal...

While the financial duress of the Millennial generation is widely publicized, the amount of coverage doesn't seem to be doing anything to curb the trend. However, suggesting ways to escape the cycle of living paycheck to paycheck can perhaps be beneficial. While the above infographic was published...

With tens of trillions of dollars' worth of global sovereign debt yielding less than zero percent, ensuring investors will lose money, and scores of other developed markets, including the United States, sporting historically low interest rates, generating income on international sovereign debt is...

By the end of 2016, Americans will hold more than $1 trillion in collective credit card debt. If you are one of the many of Americans struggling with credit card debt, making the minimum payments on your cards each month may not be helping as much as you think it is. In fact, it could easily be...