The administration’s mortgage modification program is a little over one-year old.  It has helped roughly 228,000 people get five-year reductions in mortgage payments, and another 781,000 are in the trial period.  The …

The Better Business Bureau makes this case and reports on the scams.

The scammers are especially clever at preying on people in trouble and they have come up with many ways to convince you they can …

The shenanigans of one of the leading credit card arbitration companies have embarrassed the credit card issuers and looks as if it will cause most of them to cancel arbitration contracts.

Credit card issuers started setting …

For a while now most credit card companies have inserted a mandatory arbitration clause into their contracts.  This is to force their customers to settle credit card problems with arbitration and prevent them from suing.   …

Cable TV has many ads for organizations that say they can help modify your mortgage and prevent foreclosure.  We went to one web site we saw advertised and found a deceptive pitch.

First they did not …

You can’t turn on cable TV for any length of time these days and not see commercials promising help with your debt.  The latest is a commercial for a consortium of credit card companies plugging …

Relying on consumer expert Harvard Professor Elizabeth Warren, who says that credit card issuers have put the loan sharks out of business, NBC’s Dateline used hidden cameras to expose illegal and fraudulent practices of debt …

In other BLOG entries we are going to describe some of the details of the new programs (there is more than one) announced by the Treasury Department, but having reviewed the details, we think that …

If you have read anything on this site about companies that tell you they can help you reduce your debts, help you get out of debt, or help you fix your credit, you know we …

Your credit card agreement probably contains an arbitration clause forcing you to take any disputes to arbitration before going to court. It sounds like a good idea, but as CNN reports consumers lose almost 100% …