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The new Consumer Financial Protection Bureau seeks input on private education loans as it prepares to write a report on them for Congress.

The Maryland General Assembly's chief budget analyst offered lawmakers few palatable options for creating new jobs while dealing with the state's budget shortfall. His main advice: Don't borrow so much that you put the state's bond rating in jeopardy.

Maryland holds back letters of intent to swimming, water polo recruits. Those sports could be targeted for elimination for budget reasons, officials say.

Tens of thousands of Marylanders could benefit from two initiatives by the Obama Administration to ease the burden of federal student loans.

Occupy Wall Street protesters want to overthrow the government; the tea party just wants to reduce federal borrowing. Who are the extremists here?

Hampton Inn opens Sept. 22 in Owings Mills

That unfamiliar incoming call to your cellphone soon might be from a debt collector.

The number of borrowers defaulting on federal student loans continues to rise in Maryland and elsewhere. But many of these defaults are likely unnecessary even in today's long and painful economic recovery.

Wells Fargo's takeover of Baltimore's Wachovia branches follows its disastrous and discriminatory loan practices during the housing bubble, which led to foreclosures and abandoned property.

State Sen. Catherine Pugh's campaign got a two-week, $75,000 loan from businessman Scott Donahoo right before the campaign finance filing deadline

The silver lining in all this economic upheaval lately — low interest rates on consumer borrowing.

In the midst of the gloom on Monday shone one bright spot: Borrowers may be able to get better rates on mortgages and other loans.

While it appears now that Congress has a deal to raise the nation's debt ceiling, credit unions weren't taking any chances.

The Maryland Transportation Authority shows no indication of reversing its plans to hike tolls and kill the AVI decal at the Susquehanna River bridges, although local elected officials are still hoping for at least some compromise.

Elizabeth Warren treated as a rock star in Baltimore town hall meeting

Blunders and outright misconduct by the companies servicing Americans' home loans are so common — and so difficult for homeowners to resolve — that the system is effectively broken, borrower advocates and an increasing number of regulators say.

MLB debt: The Orioles were among nine teams in violation of MLB debt service rules, according to information presented in a confidential briefing at the owners' meetings last month and confirmed to the Los Angeles Times by three people familiar with the presentation.

Bank of America sues BBH for access to financial records