Credit Rating

How do credit scores work? Two finance professors explain how lenders choose who gets loans and at what interest rate.

Roekeicha Brisby is accused of illegally erasing more than $3.3 million in credit debt.

Everybody is worried about the U.S. debt ceiling. But it’s even more important to worry about your own. Ryan Mack shows you how to obtain and use credit cards to establish a credit history: Read all of Ryan Mack’s financial tips in Your Money In The Black. More from Ryan Mack: Building Your Credit Score […]

Every successful financial plan needs to have clean credit and a high FICO score.  If we are to see more home and business ownership having good credit is the first step towards accomplishing this goal.  Too many times I have personally seen many opportunities missed because we have not taken the time to “clean” our […]

WASHINGTON  — Republicans and Democrats quickly doled out blame to each other for the first-ever downgrade in the nation’s sterling credit rating, an expected but unsettling move that further clouds prospects for the recovery of the fragile U.S. economy. The back and forth came after Standard & Poor’s, one of the world’s three major credit […]