Getting the best interest rates on mortgages, auto loans, personal loans, and even credit cards depends largely on two things – your credit score and the market. Yesterday, the Federal Reserve raised the interest rate by .25% and they “signaled” two more planned interest rate hikes this year alone –
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Credit cards are a great way to build credit, buy things, and earn rewards, but using a credit card can get pretty costly over time, especially if you carry large balances, or if you’re forced to use the cards to cover big ticket emergency expenses or things that you can’t
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Well, it’s tax time again and you know what that means? Time to gather all of your 2017 wage and expense information, sit down with the numbers, and file that tax return. Of course, if you’re like most people, when you gather those receipts, you’ll also review your checkbook, bank
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Monthly credit card bills eating up all your cash? Even if you’ve got reasonably good credit, you can still find yourself with too many credit card bills, and those bills can ruin your budget, cause you to be short on cash, and they can even cause you to go deeper
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Even those of us with great credit can sometimes get carried away and end up with too much credit card debt… debt that saps your monthly budget and can take years to pay off. But, since debt consolidation companies can sometimes cause your credit score to take a nosedive, you
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Now that the holidays are officially over, many of us are beginning to see those huge credit card bills roll into our mailboxes, and we’re starting to wonder how we’ll ever get them all paid off… Are you drowning in credit card debt, too? Maybe you overspent during the holidays
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Trapped under a staggering amount of credit card debt? Barely able to make those monthly minimum credit card payments? Even if you’ve got excellent credit, there are times when you can still get in way over your head when it comes to credit card spending, and once you get in too
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