Debt Views

By now it’s a good bet that we’ve all heard about the global credit crunch to some extent, even if we’ve just glanced away in boredom when a story about it came onto the television news bulletins. This reaction is perfectly understandable – after all, who outside the rarefied world of high finance really cares [...]

It can be frighteningly easy to get into debt, as many millions of people have found to their cost over the last few years. Easy access to cheap credit over the last decade or so, along with a generational shift in attitudes to borrowing, has left huge numbers of people struggling to get by and [...]

1: Get a grip It is estimated that Americans will charge $148 billion to their credit cards during Christmas period. A new poll also found one in four Britons felt they were struggling with debt as the UK annual interest bill for credit hit £93bn Don’t just sit back and wait for the postman to [...]