6 items that can kill your credit score

Key credit report indicators 1 of 7You've pulled one of your credit reports . Now what?As you've probably heard by now, you're entitled to free copies of your credit reports. Federal law gives you the ...

6 big credit score misconceptions

Credit scores were never meant for consumers.

Testing Your Credit Score Knowledge

The Consumer Federation of America, CFA, has created a fascinating, fantastic quiz about credit scores –what they are, what factors into them, what lowers them and so on. It's worth taking, because as I have often preached here, credit costs money –big money—and there are two ways to cut that cost: use less credit and get credit for less. The way you get credit for less is by maintaining a high ...

7 Weird Ways to Hurt Your Credit Score

The FICO credit score equation might be a black box, but there have been thousands of articles written about what you should and shouldn't do when it comes to your credit score. Most of them are pretty ...

The Consumer Federation of America Creates Helpful Credit Score Quiz

RoadFish.com men’s lifestyle and finance magazine today encouraged its readers to take the 20-question quiz created by the CFA, designed to test consumer knowledge of the factors that go into determining a credit scoreLos Angeles, CA (PRWEB) May 22, 2012 RoadFish.com men’s lifestyle and finance magazine recommended the free credit score quiz just released by the Consumer Federation of America ...