Michelle Singletary

• Personal Finance

Here are six basic yet vital tips to help young adults keep their debt burden down and their net worth climbing.

• Personal Finance

Finding advice that will save you money or a lot of financial heartache.

• Personal Finance

Fitch put the government on ‘Rating Watch Negative,’ so avoiding a default may not be enough to steady the stock market.

• Personal Finance

Four things to do if the government doesn’t raise its borrowing limit on time. But even if the crisis is avoided, the psychological impact may linger.

• Personal Finance

If the IRS doesn’t get financial support for "Direct File" to fund the technology and customer service it needs, the system will fail.

Saving early — and as often — as possible is the key to avoiding decades of college debt later.

The cost of borrowing for consumers carrying debt has increased as well as auto loan and mortgage rates thanks to the Fed's raising interest rates.

• Personal Finance

Concerns over Social Security payments and investments are valid, but experts counsel the long view in the face of debt ceiling stress.

Eight things to know about I bonds now that the rate has come down from its record high.