Credit Counselors’ Confessions: How We Got Ourselves Out of Debt

Date: Jul 01 2013
Filed under: Family Money, Credit History, Credit Repair, Debt AssistanceGetty Images Helping their clients deal with financial struggles is the daily business of credit counselors, but many of them are all too familiar with the view from the other side of ...Read More »

Manufacturing Rebounds in June; Construction Spending Soars

Date: Jul 01 2013
Filed under: Economic Indicators, Consumer Goods, Manufacturing, EconomyGetty Images By Steven C. Johnson and Lucia Mutikani NEW YORK and WASHINGTON -- U.S. manufacturing activity grew in June, rebounding from an unexpected contraction the prior month, but hiring in the sector was the ...Read More »

Citigroup agrees to pay $968M to Fannie Mae

Date: Jul 01 2013
Bank will pay money to settle future mortgage claims on loans made the past 12 years. http://rssfeeds.usatoday.com/~r/UsatodaycomMoney-TopStories/~3/ttK6FZV8GQA/ Read More »

States Find Ways to Raise Taxes Without Saying So

Date: Jun 29 2013
Filed under: Taxes, U.S. Government, State Income Tax Scott Eells/Bloomberg via Getty ImagesTom Corbett, governor of Pennsylvania. If Pennsylvania's Republican governor gets his way, the state will pay for $1.8 billion in transportation improvements largely by raising a wholesale tax on gasoline. ...Read More »

Countries Spending the Most on the Military

Date: Jun 29 2013
Filed under: U.S. Government, Government Spending, SpendingGetty Images For the first time since 1998, global military spending is down. This coincides with a major decline in U.S. spending, which fell by more than $40 billion between 2011 and 2012. Even with ...Read More »

Paula Deen and Aaron Hernandez: A Tale of Two Celebrity Endorsers

Date: Jun 29 2013
Filed under: Company News, Scandals and Lawsuits, CelebritiesAP Two very different stars, two very different purported misdeeds. But the concurrent troubles of celebrity cook Paula Deen and NFL standout Aaron Hernandez will cost both of them millions -- in Hernandez's case, ...Read More »

Wacky beverages are fast-food’s big summer lure

Date: Jun 28 2013
Some things go hand-in-hand with summer: Sunburns. Tacky bikinis. And wacky drinks. http://rssfeeds.usatoday.com/~r/UsatodaycomMoney-TopStories/~3/largtL36gBQ/ Read More »

Feds probe 344K Honda Odysseys that brake for no reason

Date: Jun 28 2013
Feds open case on 344,000 minivans over possible braking without driver pressing pedal. http://rssfeeds.usatoday.com/~r/UsatodaycomMoney-TopStories/~3/jrYLrqtlcag/ Read More »

Special edition celebrates Corvette’s 60th year

Date: Jun 28 2013
Chevy gives Corvette 60th anniversary party with special edition 2014 "Premiere" model http://rssfeeds.usatoday.com/~r/UsatodaycomMoney-TopStories/~3/kfRChBRAPUA/ Read More »

Stocks slide as month, quarter ends

Date: Jun 28 2013
Major indexes are falling in U.S. and European markets http://rssfeeds.usatoday.com/~r/UsatodaycomMoney-TopStories/~3/tVn-uyTJCkw/ Read More »