Tag: debt
New research has uncovered one reason for the alarming rise in credit card use among older Americans: medical bills. When people age 50 or older experience “health shocks” – newly diagnosed medical conditions – their credit card balances rise, according to research published in the Journal of Consumer Affairs. The worse the medical condition, t…
With house prices rising smartly, homeowners should be celebrating. Right? Wrong. To be sure, a 10 percent jump in house prices in the first quarter, compared with a year earlier, pushed more people out of the red and into the black. But one in four U.S. homeowners with a mortgage still has “negative equity:” t…
