Marie from Ohio called the ramsey Show (1) recently with a heartbreaking and sobering story: her boyfriend had secretly spent almost $17,000 on two of her credit cards. He only discovered this after closely examining his finances. Marie mentioned that she had given her credit card to a pest control company for a recurring monthly…
Americans are getting smarter with money, but financial mistakes still cost the average adult nearly $1,000 each a year. According to the latest survey from the National Financial Educators Council (NFEC), Americans lost an average of $948 from mistakes made due to a lack of personal finance knowledge in 2025. In a nation of approximately…
With prices rising and airfares still sky-high, the buy now, pay later (BNPL) boom has officially arrived for the holidays. More than half of Americans now use BNPL and nearly one in five plan to use it to pay for vacations, according to The New York Times (NYT). (1) But experts warn that while splitting…
