The nation’s debt has reached a symbolic milestone. With gross domestic product of roughly $15 trillion, and total debt of $15.23 trillion, $15,000,000,000,000 that’s how many zeros in 15 trillion. Our total debt is now bigger than our economy, as USA Today noted. What’s more, the Obama administration’s projections put our debt at more than […]

Yahoo News — If you have racked up a lot of debt on credit cards, loans and overdrafts, then you may need a quick-fix solution. If you are scared to death to look at your checkbook balance, you avoid opening bills, you are late on making payments to creditors and you never answer the phone […]

…The Surprising Way Debt Collectors Know Where You Work BusinessInsider.com — It is “perhaps one of the most powerful and private databases of American’s personal information ever created, containing 190 million employment and salary records, covering more than one-third of US adults.” So there is this site called The Work Number and basically what they […]