Report: Credit-card balances, and scores, both fell in 2011

  Americans’ credit-card debt fell 11 percent last year, to an average $6,576 for people with accounts, reported CreditKarma.com.   However, the consumer-advocate service said credit-card balances started to creep up around the end of the year. In December, for example, Arizonans boosted their card balances by 4 percent to an average $7,748, one of the biggest increases of any states for the ...

The Real Dark Horse - S&P's Mass Downgrade FAQ May Have Just Hobbled The European Sovereign Debt Market

All your questions about the historic European downgrade should be answered after reading the following FAQ. Or so S&P believes. Ironically, it does an admirable job, because the following presentation successfully manages to negate years of endless lies and propaganda by Europe's incompetent and corrupt klepocrarts, and lays out the true terrifying perspective currently splayed out before the ...

Wonkbook: Romney's rough Sunday

Perhaps Mitt Romney is just not a morning person. In the weekend's first debate -- which, like most debates, was held in the evening -- Romney was his typically untouchable self. He watched, bemused, as Rick Santorum and Ron Paul clawed at each other. He easily parried Newt Gingrich's half-hearted assault. He politely listened while Rick Perry tried to talk. He won. Read full article >>

Carmelo Anthony Wondering if the Knicks’ Struggles Are His Fault

It was inevitable, really. Here were the Denver Nuggets, a cohesive and unselfish unit, strolling into the Garden to take on the mess that is otherwise known as the New York Knicks.