What's the best consumer option for paying down credit card debt? The answer is steeped in irony and may surprise you.

It would be achieved not by canceling debt, but by injecting enough money into the economy to pay off all existent debts, national, corporate and individual. Vigna estimated the tab at $300 trillion.

With inflation, rising credit card rates and the pressure to "keep up," many millennials are turning to personal loans as a ...

The Money Guy Show: Is Zero Debt the Path to Wealth? Story by Kellan Jansen • 8mo. Dave Ramsey is a popular financial advisor who says people should avoid debt as a primary financial goal.

Chapter 7 comes closest to clearing all debt, but even it has limits. And, Chapter 13, while not as immediate of a fix, can be a powerful tool for structured repayment and asset protection.

This post could be one in the “rules” series, but since I did not get this idea prior to 2003, when I started investment writing at RealMoney.com, it does ...

CNN — The world is in debt. A record amount of debt. Three hundred trillion dollars, to be exact. That's the total amount that governments, households and corporations around the world owed in ...

As for planning debt repayments on their $12,000 transferred sum, they may wish to plan payments for the next 21 months that would allow the sum to fall to zero.

Zero interest credit cards are one way to dig yourself out of a financial hole, but you need to be very careful if you go this route. Financial advice, how to get out of debt, what to do, broke ...