This is a guest post from Adam Jusko, founder of IndexCreditCards.com, a credit card information site where you can compare credit card offers. Please consider following Adam on Twitter for quick credit tips and opinions.
As the founder of a website about credit cards, I’m sometimes asked by financial reporters what advice I’d give to people [...]
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Use Weight Loss Strategies to Get Out of Debt
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Current 0% Balance Transfer Offers
A reader named Hannah recently wrote in to ask about current 0% balance transfer offers. It seems that she took advantage of a 12 month offer last November, and is now looking for another to extend her 0% promo period with a new offer.
Unfortunately, credit card issuers have gotten increasingly stingy with their offers over [...]
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Pay Off Debt or Invest?
The other day, Matt Jabs asked if you should invest while you’re in debt. This is an interesting question, and one I thought worthy of tackling myself.
Penny wise, pound foolish
For starters, you probably shouldn’t be investing while in debt unless you can reasonably expect to outperform the interest rates that you’re paying. In other words, [...]
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Dealing With a Collection Agency
A reader that I’ll call Mary recently wrote in with the following question about dealing with a collection agency:
We were in a horrible car accident last year and our car insurance just now paid the car towing company. This company turned our bill over to collection agency which listed this on our credit report. Now… [...]
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Why Do You Want To Be Debt Free?
Have you noticed the increased buzz about “becoming debt free” lately? Everywhere we turn, more and more people are talking about clipping coupons, cutting expenses, building emergency funds, etc. This has been especially true over the last year or so.
Why all the hype? Why are so many people looking to rid themselves of their debt [...]
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How Automation has Helped Me Reduce Debt and Save
Readers often e-mail me for tips on how to keep their finances manageable. There are so many options out there that it can be overwhelming. I was speaking with my mom about this some time ago, and she felt the same way.
My mom has been responsible with her money, but she felt that she could [...]
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Debt Reduction: Penny Wise and Pound Foolish
Today I’m going to start off by asking a couple of questions…
Are you carrying any high interest debt?
Do you have any money in the bank?
If you answered yes to both of these questions, then let me ask another one…
Just how much money do you have in the bank?
The reason I ask is that a surprising [...]
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0% Credit Card Hop Scotch: Not a Kids Game
This is a guest post from Andy Jolls, a former FICO executive and founder of VideoCreditScore. If you like what you see here, please consider checking out his videos and/or subscribing to his RSS feed.
A few years ago, a friend of mine was engaged in 0% credit card hopping. She had accumulated $20,000+ in credit [...]
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Motivation to Reduce Debt
I have just one goal today… To motivate you to attack and reduce your debts.
Debt sucks bad!
For some of us, this simple statement is all the encouragement we need. We’re fed up with our situation, and are ready to spring into action. Personally, I could just stop writing now, having already motivated myself to continue [...]
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Debt Reduction: Share Your Story
I frequently get e-mails from people who are in over their heads and looking for advice on how to get out of debt. While I do my best to point these people to relevant articles and provide some general guidance, I never hear back from them as to how things are going.
With that in mind, [...]
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