Michelle Singletary

01/13/14- Washington Post financial columnist Michelle Singletary talks with the Tom Joyner Morning Show about the ins and outs of a 21-day financial fast.

Today on “NewsOne Now,”  Roland Martin got real about finances with “Washington Post” financial columnist, Michelle Singletary. They talked about economic slavery and freedom. “Debt makes…

Nationally syndicated personal finance columnist Michelle Singletary for the Washington Post talks with the Tom Joyner Morning show about how to handle returning 2013 college graduates in your home.

Nationally syndicated personal finance columnist Michelle Singletary keeps it real with Roland and the crew about the common mistake couples make of spending too much money on their weddings!

WASHINGTON — For many people, dreams of an early retirement are fading if not blacked out.   The reality is that a lot of folks will still be working well into their senior years – if they can. A retirement survey by the Employee Benefit Research Institute found that 70 percent workers said they plan […]

WASHINGTON — If there's something's strange in your credit report, who you gonna call? Not Ghostbusters. If something's weird and it don't look good, who you gonna call? Sorry, Ghostbusters still won't help even though consumers often describe being haunted by errors in their credit reports that they can't get corrected. If you haven't been […]

WASHINGTON — I do not have any nonworking hours. There, I said it. There are just no hours in my day that are totally off-limits to working either for my day job or for the numerous other things I do — including being a volunteer director of a ministry at my church, which at times […]

WASHINGTON — I need a crisis management plan.      Seriously, so much is happening in my private life that I feel like I'm on a hamster wheel.       We are a country in crisis. There is the economic downturn we are still trying to recover from. Then throw in high divorce rates, caregiving […]

WASHINGTON — Jacquelyn Atchley isn't bitter. At least not anymore. But the 73-year-old retired Oklahoma resident certainly has the right to be angry. She lost $180,000 — all of her retirement savings — in a Ponzi scheme. A fellow Oklahoman, Brian McKye, defrauded 80 investors, many of them elderly, out of about $6 million, said […]

WASHINGTON — In proclaiming the first Sunday after Labor Day as National Grandparents Day, President Jimmy Carter said that our grandparents "bore the hardships and made the sacrifices that produced much of the progress and comfort we enjoy today. It is appropriate, therefore, that as individuals and as a nation, that we salute our grandparents […]