Tag: consumer debt

Americans continued to pay down credit card debt in September, even as they kept taking out more auto and student loans, the latest Fed data tell us....

Americans kept paying down credit card debt in August, even as they continued to take out more auto and, especially, student loans, the latest Fed data tell us....

Even as Americans as a whole have been paying off debt since Lehman's collapse, the debt owed by consumers who have been late paying their bills has increased....

Americans are increasingly placing more value on paying their mortgages ahead of credit cards -- a reversal of the trend observed during the housing downturn....

Americans kept paying down their credit card debt in July, even as they continued to take out more student and auto loans, the latest Fed data tell us....