Do you want to know the best way to avoid late fees and credit card debt? Don’t carry any credit cards! In an interview by the AP, 41-year-old Atlanta resident Paige LeFevre, said “People look at me like I’m an anomaly. But guess what? It’s a whole lot easier when you’re not juggling debt,”   According […]

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 […]

…mandatory field on tax form left blank Marketwatch.com — H&R Block, the nation’s largest tax preparer, confirmed that its software failed to fill out a mandatory field on Form 8863, which is used to claim educational credits. The IRS would not say what percentage of the roughly 600,000 faulty returns came from H&R Block (US: […]