Stop blaming the tariffs
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Category: Debt
Supreme Court declares debt buyers immune to FDCPA
In all the years I’ve been writing on debt and debt collections in the United States, I and everyone else who has written on the topic has had the same pr...
No reason to fear debt, unless you listen to Dave Ramsey
On a forum I frequent was posted a list of books that couples should read before they are married. One of them was Dave Ramsey’s Total Money Makeover. In ...
Integrating budgeting and accounting with GnuCash
There are a lot of approaches to budgeting and personal financial management, it seems. Some are rather complicated, while others make you wonder whether their ...
The National Debt does exist
Mike Norman over at The Street recently shat out an article called “The National Debt: Why fret over something that doesn’t exist?” And how do...
Still more debt advocacy
Once again I encounter another article describing why a person should not seek to pay off their mortgage quickly. This time it’s Deborah Kearns of NerdWal...
Almost getting it right
I’ve said numerous times that I really don’t like much of what is published about debt collections. Because most articles I’ve seen about the ...
$1.5 million bullshit artist
On this blog and elsewhere, I’ve been an advocate for shedding debt. Including paying down your mortgage early. Investments are a gamble. If the percentag...
13 things said by someone who likely never had student loan debt
Once again I need to focus my eyes on Credit.com, and specifically at Christine DiGangi and her article “13 Thing People with No Student Loan Debt Will Ne...
Leveraging and personal finance
Dave Ramsey definitely caters to a particular audience. That is an audience that has little control over their spending and little, if any, financial intelligen...