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Angelica Leicht is the senior editor for the Managing Your Money section for CBSNews.com, where she writes and edits articles on a range of personal finance topics. Angelica previously held editing ...

Americans’ collective credit card debt hit a record $1.17 trillion earlier this year, and the average credit card debt is now $6,329. Managing that balance is even more complicated when your total ...

Tim Maxwell is a freelance writer who covers investing, real estate, banking, credit education and other personal finance topics. Inflation continues to hit the economy and Americans' wallets. Some ...

Most adults in the United States (81%) have at least one credit card, and Americans' total credit card balances broke a new record—more than $1.3 trillion—in July 2025. Credit card debt can be a ...

If you were hoping the Federal Reserve's recent rate cut, its first of 2025, was going to make your credit card debt easier ...

Our team researched more than two dozen of the country’s most popular personal lenders, including large online companies like SoFi, big banks like Wells Fargo, and peer-to-peer lenders like Upstart.

Liz Bingler is a banking editor for the MarketWatch Guides team with a decade of editorial experience. She’s covered personal finance topics for publishers such as Bankrate and CreditCards.com.