Robert Thorpe is a Newsweek reporter based in Massachusetts. His focus is reporting on personal finance topics, including banking, Social Security, investing and more. Robert joined Newsweek in ...

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The federal Consumer Financial Protection Bureau has taken major steps to help people with medical debt in its nearly 14-year history. It issued rules barring medical debt from Americans’ credit ...

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The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) defines home equity as “the difference between what you owe on your mortgage and ... including consolidating credit card debt, paying off higher-interest ...

I’m Dawn Vaughan, The News & Observer’s Capitol bureau chief. Stein signed his first ... Kaitlin McKeown kmckeown@newsobserver.com “I can tell you that particular provision in the governor ...