by CreditCardsOnline News | May 2, 2018 | Blog
As an alternative to bankruptcy, debt settlement seems like a pretty good choice because you end up paying half or even less than half of what you owe. Sounds great, right? What you might not know is that there are implications for settled debt. How Debt is Settled... 
by CreditCardsOnline News | Apr 25, 2018 | Blog
Consumer confidence, as measured by a business association known as the Conference Board, did rise in December to its highest mark since August 2001. The confidence index, based on a random sampling of roughly 3,000 people, rose to 113.7 from 109.4 in November. The... 
by CreditCardsOnline News | Apr 23, 2018 | Blog
According to Experian’s annual study on the state of debt in America, the average American has a credit card balance of $6,375, which is up by nearly 3% from 2017. This is very alarming. One contributing factor to those numbers is the fact that most consumers have... 
by CreditCardsOnline News | Apr 22, 2018 | Blog
We are in a golden age of technology, where technology is driven by innovations, and innovations are introduced to us nearly every day (it’s an over-exaggeration, but you get my point). More and more technologies are introduced to us faster than we can keep up. Among... 
by CreditCardsOnline News | Apr 21, 2018 | Blog
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg was recently put in hot water over a Facebook data scandal in which a third-party app leaked the data of 87 million Facebook profiles to a firm called Cambridge Analytica. In fact, even Zuckerberg himself wasn’t spared from the leak, whose... 
by CreditCardsOnline News | Apr 20, 2018 | Blog
If you’ve ever had a run-in with a debt collection agency, chances are you’ve experienced how resilient and scary they can be. Most collection agencies resort to very questionable tactics just to get debtors to pay up. It’s very easy to fall for these scare tactics if...