Credit Scores Are a Scam

In personal finance, practically everything can turn on one's credit score. It's both an indicator of one's financial past, and the key to accessing necessities-without insane costs-in the future. But on Tuesday, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau announced that two of the three major credit-rating agencies responsible for doling out those scores-Equifax and Transunion-have been deceiving and taking advantage of Americans. The Bureau ordered the agencies to pay more than $23 million in fines and restitution.   In their investigation, the Bureau found that the two agencies had been......(read more)

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