debt advice

    By Barbara Bartlein

    | 12:00PM 11/19/2009
    Move over AA, NA and other 12-step programs, now there is Debtors Anonymous for those addicted to overspending. Patterned after Alcoholics Anonymous, DA is a 12-step program to help spenders recover from chronic debt and compulsive spending. In DA, the first step for recovery is accurately...

    By Gina Roberts-Grey

    | 6:00AM 11/02/2009
    With more than $40,000 in credit card debt and more than 20 credit cards to her name, Diana Ryan didn't think she had a problem -- even though her husband had no idea just how many pieces of plastic she had tucked in her wallet. "It sounds cliche," Ryan says, "but I thought I could stop at any...

    By Ken and Daria Dolan

    | 11:00AM 12/09/2007
    Ken and Daria Dolan are widely known as America's First Family of Personal Finance. Dear Ken and Daria: I'm worried that I might be in over my head when it comes to how much debt I'm carrying. How can I tell? Well, the fact that you are even asking the question is a good sign in itself that you...