The popularity of online gambling leads many people to credit card debt, especially college students with already delicate finances. A recent article on www.startelegram.com, titled “Betting Their Lives,” highlights this recent phenomenon as betting on college campuses moves from crowded dorm rooms to cyberspace.
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The James Spurlock documentary Maxed Out does so much more than explain the sad and terrifying state of the average American debtor. It explodes it on the screen, so that we are helpless but to watch the tragedy that goes on all around us.
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A Review of: Debt Settlement Could Cost More Than You Think
Part 1: Section 1 “The basics,” and Section 2 “The Problem With Debt Settlement Companies”

In this article featured on Yahoo! Finance, Aleksandra Todorova explores the debt-settlement industry and offers information on the service and the risk. In a financial world wrought with debt consolidation companies wanting your business, Todorova sheds some light on the most popular consolidation alternative.
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Todays blend focuses on the much-bemoaned mortgage industry. News outlets have focused a lot lately on the sickened mortgage industry and its affect on the economy as a whole. We’ll take a look at a Yahoo Finance article that describes how the trouble in the sub-prime category is affecting loans at the other end of the spectrum. Then we’ll glance over at CNNMoney to get an in-depth look at the entire mortgage bubble. Then we’ll get some insight from The Economist on their take on the credit squeeze. Throughout all this, we’ll examine how the debt-relief and debt consolidation industry will be affected.
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