Back in 2001 at the non-profit organization Myvesta.org we held a contest and solicited the best cheap meals from people all cross the country. The resulting entries were combined into the Cheapmeals.com Cookbook.

The growing trend of the elderly falling into more problem debt is not restricted to the United States alone. Credit Counseling and Recovery Service of South Korea is reporting that of the total number of debt workouts they assisted people with last year, 24 percent were fifty years old or older.

David Vladeck director of the FTC’s Bureau of Consumer Protection and DOJ Assistant Attorney Tony West conducted a conference call I attended to provide additional information regarding an announced settlement with collection company Asset Acceptance

For all of my life and especially through my financial struggles the assumption that money troubles are tied to morality and that people with debt troubles are somehow morally broken or moral failures and need to repent at their very hour of need, persist. It’s a false belief that haunts nearly every single soul that has fallen into the pit of dark claustrophobic and oppressive debt.