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So you really want to ruin your credit score? We have the perfect recipe for you! Just remember: once you go down the road to credit inferno, there is no quick shortcut to fix it. You've been warned!

In 1995, the notoriously derelict Parisian outskirts began experiencing a dramatic gentrification. Why did this happen and how did it change the game for local income property investors?

Captivated by moviemaking since he was kid, Pierre-Alexandre gave up his budding engineering career and decided to do just that: becoming a movie director. It’s been a wild ride, and he shares his joys and pains with us.

Making enough money to live off something you love doing can sound like a fantasy. Could you do it? It is worth it? Two young professionals who made it happen share their honest, uncompromising opinion with us.

Investing in valuable real estate has nothing to do with hip addresses or prime neighborhoods. Instead, favoring low income urban areas for investment property can be a profitable choice. Let me share with you my investing experience in Paris and its...

Is it hot – or not? All available funds were not created equal. Here is a list of 10 simple (but critical) things you’d better evaluate before picking a fund for your investment portfolio.

Despite all the best wishes earthlings have been exchanging for the New Year, 2010 started out with a deadly setback when Haiti was rocked by a major earthquake. If you don’t already think that any dollar sent to help Haitians heal and rebuild their ...

Amid the current financial frenzy, many middle class people in America feel lost – and probably angry at the situation. But this is everyone’s problem. So before you blame it on Wall Street’s greed, the homeowners’ incompetence or the Government, tak...

Everyone talks about it, yet few seem to really understand it. Is it a lifetime opportunity to change your old wheels for something newer and greener, or is it just another over-hyped law proposal? Middle Class Crunch investigates.

You might want to know why this website exists in the first place, and why it is called Middle Class Crunch. We are here to serve all middle class people of America. Let us explain our "raison d'etre".

High mileage techniques from "hypermilers" are becoming mainstream among American drivers, as well as every other country where gas is expensive. Will we soon witness Escalade drivers bragging about making 30 mpg with their monsters? Probably not, bu...

The outlook of a French intellectual for 2009, and why he considers it the "T-year" for the American economy.

When investing on the stock market, being a "jack of all trades" can make a tremendous difference in your bottomline. The more weapons you have in your arsenal, the better you can adapt to market trends. Shorting is one of these weapons. But how does...

Forget about dropping thousands on a diamond-studded watch or on fresh new rims for your Benz... Rappers now teach you how to balance a checkbook and handle your estate.

The current state of the American currency is not encouraging. You already know it if you travel abroad from America. But the consequences of the dollar's decline might be even more serious. Here is what a famous French intellectual has to say about ...

Bail out this, bail out that... Is bailing out everybody and anybody the latest trend in Washington? Here is why this is all getting on my nerves, and why you should be angry too.

Who said debt was always a bad thing? Here's how to gracefully take advantage of it, without changing much of your habits.

Introductory article

Will Chinese medicine cure middle class America?