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The numbers are rolling in, and by all accounts, Americans have finally bucked up and told their credit cards, "It's not me, it's you." While consumer spending has inched up a bit, it's not the big credit card networks that are benefiting, which means we're opting more often to spend the money...

Dieters looking for a little extra willpower to avoid putting junk food in their grocery carts might want to leave their credit cards at home. New research shows that buying groceries with plastic instead of good old-fashioned folding money makes people more likely to buy unhealthy foods.

We at WalletPop spend a lot of time warning you about fees slapped onto credit cards, ways debit cards can trip you up and caveats about cash. But all the details are hard to remember and a little confusing so we've broken it down to help you decide when it's best to use each kind of payment....

Forget the coupon clipping. A straightforward, realistic budget is the best deal you'll ever find. Why is a budget the best deal? Because, just like your childhood puppy your budget will always be there for you, no expiration dates, no fine print to yank away the savings after you've already been...

The former chief executive of Bear Stearns recently had a chance to share his thoughts on the federal government's bailout of Wall Street, banking reform and the controversial books about the downfall of his old firm.

A Pennsylvania man returned $3,600 to a newlywed couple that lost the cash-stuffed envelope sometime after leaving their wedding reception. When newlyweds David and Ashley Marasco of Bridgeville, Pa., left their wedding reception Sunday they put the cash in their wedding album and drove off --...

That's BMO Capital Markets analyst Mark Steele's advice. With no end in sight for the European debt crisis, the global credit environment is worsening, he wrote in a Tuesday report, and that spells bad things for the stock market.

Are you ready to give up cash and checks and start using your credit card exclusively? You might just be able to do that -- if you own a smartphone. Seems that now that almost everyone with a cell phone is quickly exchanging it for a smartphone, several companies are betting good money that these...

Odds are that at the start of every term, you find yourself running to the store and getting the same household basics that you just ran out of: toilet paper, laundry detergent, maybe pens and notepads for your classes. Beer. But there's a better, smarter way of buying many of those goods than...

My son was embarrassed. The cashier was obviously annoyed. And the woman in line behind me was notably irritated. And, all I'd said was one little four-letter word: CASH. "Debit or credit?" the cashier asked.