Wall Street went into a panic Wednesday as the Commerce Department reported a sharp increase within the U.S. trade deficit in June. Although the trade deficit in the U.S. had been narrowing, it was shown in June to widen by $ 7.9 billion. Stocks were sold off with this news. Last quarter the trade deficit ...

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According to a recent poll conducted by research firm GfK Roper and funded by AARP, Americans largely disapprove of cutting Social Security in order to lower the national deficit. Cutting Social Security isn't wanted by 85 percent of American's, reports the Huffington Post. 72 percent were shown within the survey to "strongly oppose" social security. 'Me ...

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The Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) most recently concluded a pilot program to get banks to compete with payday loan companies. The final results are in on the small dollar loan pilot program launched by the FDIC in 2008. The program was deemed a success. However, the number of loans made in two years was ...

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According to Fox Business, Americans are likely to spend a lot more than $ 121 billion on home improvement in 2010, so knowing how to finance home improvement is very important. Here are seven financing opportunities. Seven alternatives- how to finance home enhancement Breaking a larger concept down into smaller parts makes it much less daunting; that ...

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Stress from Debt Collectors Anyone who is in debt knows that a debt collector is capable of bringing more stress than the debt itself brings. Habitually, these people are not used to such practices. They are people who have possibly purchased your debt from the original lender at a lower price and are now trying to ...

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