The Best Ways to Manage Debt in a Recession

February 23, 2009
Hosted by Jordan Goodman

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Episode Description

Many Americans are burdened by huge amounts of debt, but don’t know the best way to get out from under it. In this interview, Jordan speaks to Christopher Viale, the president of Cambridge Credit Counseling, one of the largest non-profit credit counseling firms in America. Chris will describe how credit counseling can help you get better control of your debts by paying lower interest rates and consolidating all your debts into one automatic monthly payment. He will also discuss what is happening with the banks to make your debts either easier or harder to handle in these volatile times.

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Jordan Goodman

Jordan Goodman has a mission: to help everyone do better with money. Since graduating the Columbia University School of Journalism in 1977, he has spent the past 32 years combing the country to find the very best ways to help consumers make and save money and then sharing these gems with the public. As a staff writer/reporter at MONEY Magazine for 18 years, a weekly commentator on NBC News at Sunrise and Public Radio’s Marketplace Morning Report, and through his 12, soon to be 13 highly respected books, and his website www.moneyanswers.com, he has provided useful, common-sense information to the public. Some of his better-known books include Fast Profits in Hard Times, Everyone’s Money Book, the Dictionary of Finance and Investment Terms and Master Your Money Type. Jordan is a rare combination: someone who possesses not only encyclopedic knowledge about every area of personal finance but also a passion for helping his listeners not only to get educated but to take action to help their dreams become realities.

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