You’re looking at an economy driven by consumers and consumers are getting killed. The price of everything is rising. The consumer is getting caught in the crossfire.

Sit down, collect all your information, all your bills and write out exactly what you owe. Then, you need to put yourself on a budget.

The reality is consumers are going to be able to pay their bills off faster. But in the short run, it’s going to hurt like hell. People are used to paying smaller minimums, and they’re...

There’s no pain involved when you pay with plastic. But there is some pain when you go out and you have to part with cash. You worked hard for that green stuff, and you aren’t...

I question what they are going to take away from the briefing portion. They’re there just to jump through the hoop to file for bankruptcy. They’re not there because they want to be there.

Everybody has 15% to 20% of fat in their budget.

You’ll see creditors get more aggressive at collecting debt, the reason being that they can.

In a person’s budget, there’s about 15% fat that they can get rid of without really feeling it.

The average debt per household is $9,000. The rate now is $180. It will be $360.

For many of these people, this could represent the most time they’ve ever spent in their lives focused on their personal finances.

It’s going to be huge. You’ll see a massive amount of advertising from bankruptcy mills. Beat the deadline, etc..

Most people don’t budget properly because they’re not taught to. There are no courses I know of, especially in the high school level. A lot of families purposely don’t talk about finances; I think that’s...

Obviously, this is theory and easier said than done. Tracking every nickel is a big process and a lot of people don’t do it. You can make the best budget, but if you don’t track...

People spend what’s there. If it’s not there, they’re not going to spend it.

Between car payments, getting married, buying property, having children, dealing with deaths, most people walk a very tight rope with debt. They make the huge mistake of only making minimum payments. Once something goes wrong...