Finances Update Archives

No matter how enticing the marketing is, credit cards are not designed to add to our lives. They only subtract from them in a big way.

No one sets out to take a wrong step, of course, but all investors have made a few mistakes.

Unfortunately, for so many Americans, hope is the only thing they’ve got to hold on to as they face their retirement years.

Fact: You can have nearly anything you want. But you might have to make those lower monthly payments...for life.

Debt has become such a normal part of life that many people never question it. However, I think that's ridiculous.

We have become a nation of “more is better.” But I often don’t consider the true and total cost of “more.”

Dear Deborah: How can I rebuild my credit score?

Income inequality. It’s a hot topic, with everyone from academics, pundits and politicians discussing it. What's behind it?

If you left college with a diploma and a pile of student loan debt, take heart. You can escape the prison of debt once you learn what you need to...

In roughly one-quarter of married U.S. couples, the wife earns more than her husband, up from just 6 percent in 1960.

Now that I follow Christ, I realize how fame got in the way of the truth I so desperately needed to hear.

Money doesn’t grow on trees, but sometimes it does hide in the corners of a monthly budget. Give yourself a raise by putting it to work.

Most of us have a desire to give. We want to help those in need. We just want to make sure that we aren’t burned in the process.

Last Saturday, a single ticketholder won the Pennsylvania Powerball jackpot valued at 456.7 million dollars, becoming an instant millionaire like...

Have you ever made a quick decision that you later regretted? Almost all of us have done this to one degree or another.