Tag: consumers
After a good Christmas for retailers, the January regrets about overspending are inevitable. What’s driving that regret was dramatized in a recent experiment to see if consumers could get control of their credit card balances. It was a flop. This experiment involved U.K. residents applying for credit cards who had selected the automatic payment option,…
Regular working folks can always find something about their finances to be stressed about. But today’s stress is coming from a new place: a level of inflation this country hasn’t seen in four decades. A large majority of workers – 76 percent – identified rising prices as having a negative impact on their finances. And…
