FLORENCE, ITALY – JANUARY 29: Andrea Pirlo during the “Panchina d’Oro” award season 2022/2023 at Centro Tecnico Federale di Coverciano on January 29, 2024 in Florence, Italy. (Photo by Gabriele Maltinti/Getty Images) Reports claim that Italy legend Andrea Pirlo blocked his son’s bank account in 2022 after discovering he had accumulated a €30,000 debt…
The Caribbean is just one natural disaster away from catastrophe, and the region’s current financing model is failing to keep pace with escalating climate risks. This, according to Jwala Rambarran, Senior Policy Advisor at the Caribbean Policy Development Centre (CPDC) needs urgent attention. Rambarran was speaking at a recent debt consultation in St. Vincent &…
Nearly half of Australian adults who have debt – around 5 million people – struggled to meet their repayments in the 12 months to April 2024, according to ASIC research. If you’re in over your head and your repayments are only pulling you down further, debt consolidation could be a solution worth considering. Here’s how…
Mortgage brokers are hailing the move by Commonwealth Bank of Australia not to count HECS bills as debt in home loan assessments if they are due for repayment within a year. CBA said it is also “piloting” dropping the serviceability buffer to 1%, from its current 3%, for those due to pay off their student…
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As residents stress over unpaid medical bills, Illinois pilot programs pledge to abolish $1 billion of medical debt Fact checked by Jim Lacy Gloria Austin knew she had a problem when a red rash, a line around her stomach, appeared, as pain ramped up. The East Garfield Park resident was 62 at the time. After…
An estimated $72 million in medical debt is set to be relieved for New Hampshire residents. Undue Medical Debt, a New York based nonprofit, recently paid off over $30 billion in national debt from the former debt collection agency Pendrick Capital Partners. A small portion of the debt being retired affects Granite Staters. Daniel Lempert,…
(TNND) — As Congress hashes out spending and tax cuts, a new survey from the Cato Institute shows widespread public support for shrinking the scope of the federal government. Americans estimate that the government wastes 59 cents of every dollar it spends, according to the survey published Thursday by the libertarian-leaning think tank. And over…
There are better ways to handle your credit card debt than making just the minimum payment on the account. Getty Images/iStockphoto A large number of Americans have been struggling to make ends meet right now — and that’s especially true for those carrying credit card debt. Case in point? The latest Large Bank Credit Card…
China’s economic policies and management have received a blow with Fitch Ratings downgrading its long-term foreign currency issuer default rating to ‘A’ from ‘A+’. The downgrade reflects the deterioration of China’s public finances under the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) leadership, with government debt projected to reach a staggering 80% of GDP by 2029, more than…