Social Distancing and Why You Need To Pay Your Mortgage
This social distancing thing is really interesting. We are seeing how being able to come into close contact with each other allows our economy to operate. It shows us how
Tag: consumer debt
MLK and Debt
My work has one focus- working with people in debt. With Martin Luther King Jr. day comingup, I was curious to see if he had, or how he had, addressed
Got Debt and The Institute, Perfect Together
Wondering today if Stephen King is the Sarah Poriss of debt? Or is it the other way around? Regardless, I was just thrilled to see that debt – and debt
About Got Debt 2.0 (the preface)
May 28, 2019 I published the first edition of Got Debt, Dispatches From the Front Lines of America’s Debt Crisis in October, 2017. At the time the economy wasn’t treading
The Politics of Debt
Last month we posted an article on Facebook about the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. The article, I think it was from the Washington Post, was a simple, concise recitation of
Psychology & Debt
From Got Debt, Dispatches from the Front Lines of America’s Financial Crisis The more I work with people with debt, the more patterns I see. This has been an interesting
Things That Never Go Away
In Sunday’s New York Times, Jake Halpern revisited collection agencies. Not the collection agencies you’d normally think of, but the collections agencies that buy old debt and go after it
Debt Games
I asked a friend to dive into the wild and wacky world of all things financial on the web. He’s in his 50s, has three kids, a decent credit score,
About My Schoolhouse Rock Facebook Post
Earlier today, I posted an old Schoolhouse Rock video on my Facebook page. You’ll either recognize it from your childhood or from recently studying for the AP Government test (and
It’s 9 Degrees Out … So, Hey, Baseball and Consumer Debt
I have a friend who is a huge baseball friend. Not Donald Trump Ya-uuuge, but real-life huge. He’s deep into baseball history, is still mad at Hollywood for changing the