To pay off debt fast, make more than the minimum payment on your highest interest debt. With this method, you save time and money on interest.

A 23-year-old nurse became debt-free by using a simple strategy that changed her spending habits: "I was eating out a lot, buying new clothes at Target, ...

Paying with paper instead of plastic helped Kristy Epperson eliminate $20,000 in student loan and car loan debt in just one year. After earning her bachelor's ...

Colorado has the lowest obesity rate of any state, but when it comes to financial fitness, residents of the state carry around one of the heaviest debt burdens.

The terse letter arrived in the mailboxes of about 40 families in Northeastern Pennsylvania this month. It came from the local public school district, but it bore a ...

Some of the people struggling the most to pay back their debt are the millions of students who took out student loans but never finished a degree.

You got the degree — or didn't — and now you have so much debt that you're looking for help to reduce your student loan payments. You are a con artist's ...

Chinese companies are facing a reality check after years of ramping up debt. A deleveraging campaign that President Xi Jinping began in 2016 to curb risks in ...

Asked about the debt ceiling, Trump whined incessantly about Obama's fiscal record. That really didn't make any sense.

A heavy debt burden can wear on your well-being. Here's how to stay positive while you get back in the black.

There's one question I can almost always count on being asked at the scores of public presentations I give each year about the economy. The question is, what ...

New York (CNN Business) America's debt load is about to hit a record. The combination of cheap money and soaring debt helped fuel the decade-long ...

It's nearly all the debt currently in the hands of debt collectors in Los Angeles—and it cost a lot less than $30 million to do.

BRUSSELS —AB Inbev, the world's biggest brewer with brands like Budweiser and Corona, is selling its unit in Australia to reduce debt after it decided against ...

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A key gauge of China's debt has topped 300% of gross domestic product, according to the Institute of International Finance (IIF), as Beijing steps up support for ...

JCPenney (JCP) has hired advisors to evaluate its debt-restructuring options, as it needs more time to turn its struggling business around.

Plaid has always been about helping developers build financial applications. Up until now that has involved standard checking and savings, and, more recently, ...

J.C. Penney has hired advisers to help it explore options to restructure its debt, according to a report from Reuters late Thursday.Plano-based...

If you owe money on your credit cards, just about everything is a luxury.

More than 40 million Americans are currently facing student loan debt in the United States. That debt totals an astounding $1.56 trillion. Yes, that's a “T,” as in ...

Here's a story from this week that you likely won't hear much about, what with the 24/7 cable news screamfest over the Trump-Squad wars: The White House ...

All eyes are on House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and those telephone calls with Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin and the bottom line is simple: every day there ...

France has squeaked past Italy to become the country with the biggest debt load in the euro area in absolute terms, according to quarterly data from Eurostat.

Two popular options to consolidate credit card debt are transferring the debt to a balance transfer credit card or taking out a personal loan.

Cost of 12-month euro-to-dollar currency hedges drop 75 basis points since recent peak.

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi says she wants her chamber to vote on a debt ceiling and budget deal by July 26.

To impede this potential for abuse, the Constitution vested the power to take on debt and regulate currency with the people—through Congress.

A large Chinese conglomerate fell deeper into a debt crisis, after it said it won't repay $500 million in U.S. dollar bonds coming due next month.

J.C. Penney has hired advisers to explore debt restructuring options that would buy more time for the money-losing U.S. retailer to forge a turnaround, people ...

LOS ANGELES (CBSLA) — The Los Angeles-Long Beach-Santa Ana market had the fourth-highest average mortgage debt in the country, according to data ...

On Thursday, a Thomson Reuters report suggested that AT&T (T) might sell its business in Puerto Rico for around $3 billion.

The hardest part of being a distressed debt investor now may be finding something to do.

The fees harm rehabilitation and increase recidivism.

Negotiators are in the brink of a deal. Now comes the hard part.

I applied the KonMari method to my finances and learned how to appreciate my money — and my debt — and organize my savings.

Barney Frank, former chairman of the House Financial Services Committee, says that significant progress has been made to reduce the amount of imprudent ...

For fund managers Michael Cirami and Eric Stein, a lot can be learned from the answer to a simple question. After widespread protests toppled the Egyptian ...

On his new podcast, The Portal, Eric Weinstein dives into student debt and the function of universities with Peter Thiel. Weinstein floats the idea of a college ...

Even more so than student debt, medical debt is a manifestation of everything that's wrong with the United States today. Bernie Sanders, and the broader ...

Michigan college grads are borrowing 42% more on average than they were 10 years ago. Today, your average Michigan student with school loans has about ...

When President Jimmy Carter left the White House in 1981, he was 56 years old and deep in debt. His peanut business, which sold certified seed peanuts and ...

The factors are complicated, but they tie broadly back to America's history of systemic racism.

Dear Prudence,. I'm engaged to a loving man. Before we met, I incurred significant debt going through a divorce and becoming a single parent. I wasn't a ...

Stetson Baptist Church collected so much money in a charity drive that they were able to pay off $7.2 Million worth of medical debt for struggling Floridians.

It's four o'clock on a roasting Wednesday last July. I am a resident physician at Yale University, and I am sitting beside my wife, Kristin Budde, who just became ...

By The Strategist 2019-07-19 14:46:31. [By David Uren]. Tonga, a nation of 170 islands and just over 100,000 people, is carrying a heavier Chinese debt burden ...

India's insolvency tribunal has made a dangerous decision. Unless its judgment is quashed, credit costs for India Inc. will surge, shares of state-run banks will ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Washington negotiators are closing in on a budget and debt deal that would stave off the chance of a government shutdown this fall and ...

A cash crunch at one of China's best known conglomerates is getting worse as the company said it will not be able to pay its upcoming dollar notes.

Former Rep. Mark Sanford (R-S.C.) has told friends and supporters he would base a long-shot presidential campaign on the exploding national debt, which has ...

China's lending to other countries has surged in the past decade, causing debt levels to jump dramatically, and as much as half of such debt to developing ...

The nation's biggest debt-settlement services provider will pay a steep price after allegedly deceiving borrowers who'd gotten in over their heads. This past week ...

iShares Floating Rate Bond ETF (FLOT) has a significant cost advantage over its ultrashort-bond and variable-rate peers. The exchange-traded fund's ...

NEW YORK CITY—Adam Neumann, WeWork's founder and CEO reportedly cashed out stock from the co-working, shared office space company and took on ...

People who took out student loans can't repay them, and the economy may collapse. Maybe people could just live within their means.

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You can dig yourself out of debt. A man in his late 20s recently revealed on Reddit that he racked up $16,000 in credit-card debt in four years, after one ...

As China's economic growth declines, some analysts say Beijing may have to spend more on infrastructure, adding to concerns about high debts.

In the pecking order of meeting college costs, consumers usually don't turn to private student loan markets until they have exhausted all other means. And for ...

Record high tuition prices have forced an increase in student loans across the US. WalletHub compared all 50 states and saw which ones fare the worst.

ANNAPOLIS, Md. (AP) — Gov. Larry Hogan's administration is highlighting a Maryland program that enables young adults to cut student loan debt while buying ...

"As much as I admire out-of-the-box thinking by Bernie Sanders and other presidential candidates, their proposals to cancel all student debt is alarming."

A heavy debt burden can wear on your well-being. Here's how to stay positive while you get back in the black.

A sinkhole of negative-yielding debt in emerging markets has doubled in size over the past week. This time last year it was non-existent.

Bryan Ruiz's hands were still shaking an hour after he learned the $300,000 in medical school loans he took out to become a dentist were being wiped away by ...

During my time on Capitol Hill, higher education policy was rarely a headline-grabbing topic. The nuances of federal financial aid or student debt were issues to ...

It could boost the economy, but experts say that not all plans to wipe out student debt increase racial and economic equity.

Wedding debt is reaching unprecedented heights in some countries — and there are several countries where couples have it worse than the US.

A debt collector is accused of writing deceptive notices, hiring police officers to deliver them and using aggressive tactics to threaten people struggling to pay ...

Connecticut officials have spent much of the past three years restructuring tens of billions of dollars in pension debt that dates back more than 80 years.

AMSTERDAM, July 19, 2019 /PRNewswire/ -- Trivium Packaging B.V. ("Trivium") announces that its subsidiary, Trivium Packaging Finance B.V., has priced the ...

Amid growing national concerns over student debt, the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Middle District of Florida is starting a new program intended to help ...

As of this year, Americans owe a whopping $1.6 trillion in student loan debt—a burden collectively shouldered by 45 million borrowers. Democratic candidates ...

MIRAMAR, Fla., July 19, 2019 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Generex Biotechnology Corporation (www.generex.com) (OTCQB:GNBT) today announced that it has ...

Debtors with student loans feel more financially insecure, engage in riskier money behaviors and have more trouble paying bills.

Like many Americans, this couple said their spending habits were reckless and out of control. Find out what they did to get a handle on that.

J.C. Penney Co. Inc. shares fell 10.2% in Friday premarket, and more than 11% after the market opened following a late-Thursday report that it has hired...

You could potentially save thousands of dollars in interest by making this smart money move.

With student loans at an all-time high, you may be surprised to find out that they aren't the biggest reason people declare bankruptcy. Instead, those who hit ...

Efforts to clean up Turkey's bad debt have stalled after bankers rejected or put on hold initial plans, according to people familiar with the matter, frustrating the ...

Ray Dalio thinks it's time for investors to move into an unloved asset as a vicious "paradigm shift" approaches the marketplace.

U.S. federal debt is on track to balloon to a staggering 144% of GDP, according to a recent report by the Congressional Budget Office (CBO).

Eight public school teachers filed a lawsuit against Betsy DeVos, criticizing the Department of Education for mismanaging their student loan debt.

CHARLESTON, W.Va. — Gov. Jim Justice has settled two lawsuits by companies that were coming after him personally for millions of dollars. Siemens Financial ...

(Bloomberg) -- AT&T Inc., looking for ways to pay down debt after the $85 billion takeover of Time Warner Inc. last year, is considering the sale of its Puerto Rican ...

To find the average mortgage debt in each state 24/7 Wall St. reviewed data from the State of Credit Report by Experian, a consumer reporting agency.

U.S. investors have stepped up their pursuit of European collateralized loan obligations as the yield on offer has become more attractive compared to what they ...

ADT Inc. has been trading at near all-time lows since April 2019 due to lack pf profitability, high leverage and competitive threats in the residential security.

The U.S. may be “very close” to reaching a bipartisan deal on the debt ceiling but more needs to be done.

California needs more doctors. And it's going to extreme lengths to recruit them.

Turkey's opposition twice took on President Recep Tayyip Erdogan's political machine in Istanbul and won.

Is the greater degree of regulation in the United States caused by our increasing age? Maybe.

This article is being republished as part of our daily reproduction of WSJ.com articles that also appeared in the U.S. print edition of The Wall Street Journal (July ...

People take on student loans to study in the field they want to one day work in. However, the debt can have a less desirable impact, as well.

Paying off your debt can transform your financial health -- and there are more good reasons to do so than you may realize.

Hundreds of parents were threatened with losing custody of their children over school lunch debt.

A rising budget deficit may make sense in a major war or recession but not now, when the economy is strong, the economist N. Gregory Mankiw says.

Vladimir Putin's 20-trillion-ruble ($300 billion) weapons-buying binge over the last decade has brought advanced hypersonic warheads and drone submarines.

Americans owe more than $1 trillion in credit card debt. And according to a new CreditCards.com poll, households with credit card debt outspend those without ...