After the excellent discussions about credit cards held here, I compiled some of those questions into
an article about improving your credit knowledge. Special thanks to
anvilchorus for the inspiration, and to
tessama for the quote.
You might also enjoy my colleague Mark Huffman's piece on
dealing with unscrupulous debt collectors.
sunfell recommended for me a piece in the NYT on how easy it is to
get sucked into debt and not be able to navigate a way out of it.