The SV Blog

I don't watch television often, but a recent evening spent in front of the tube gave a sad indication of where we are today. Three kinds...

For some months now there have been reports of declines in credit card debt, which have been interpreted as evidence of greater thrift and ...

Today the word came down that Blockbuster Video had filed for chapter 11 bankruptcy protection. A company founded in 1985 and once the domi...

In the final chapter of my 2008 book Going Broke: Why Americans Can’t Hold On To Their Money, I gave a number of suggestions for staying ou...

In 2005, soon after George W. Bush’s reelection, a bankruptcy bill that had been pushed by the banking and credit card industries for nine y...

Cortney Munna, the debt-burdened NYU graduate featured in a recent New York Times profile and in my last blog post responds today to the ...

The college commencement addresses have all been delivered, and new graduates are faced with the realities of a slower economy and no diminu...