In a move that I have to classify as surprising, a report has been released that shows that confidence amongst U.S. consumers actually is on the rise. This is shocking because it comes on the hells of the report about consumers cutting debt at a reco...

As the new credit card laws have been passed banks have found that one of their major sources of profit is being extinguished. They’ve responded by trying to squeeze in rate increases right before these laws have been enacted. This has left a whole lot...

It seems like everything these days comes down to money. People need more of it, companies aren’t making enough of it to give people more, and the cycle just spins round and round. Fortunately, their might be some good news on this front as it seems...

The financial crisis has hit our country in many different ways. A whole lot of people’s lives have been devastated by the financial goings on of the past few years, or at the very least turned right on their heads. As happens when anything goes this...

As our country slogs its way out of the recession people have had to make a whole lot of changes in the way they’ve been running their lives. It seems as if no sector of the economy or segment of the population has been immune. In one startling sign of...

Today the Federal Reserve announced a set of rules it was enacting in order to make it harder for banks to hit their customers with those dreaded overdraft fees. Overdraft fees have long been a major source of cash flow for banks. These new rules from...