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How Home Equity Borrowing Affects Your Credit Score
5:37am, 9th May, 2019

How Home Equity Borrowing Affects Your Credit Score

Your home equity is the amount of your home that you own – in other words, the market value of your home minus the amount of principal that you owe on your loan. For many Americans, it's one of their largest financial assets. If you need money...
How The Interest Rate Increase Affects You
9:28am, 7th February, 2019

How The Interest Rate Increase Affects You

Your Christmas gift from the Federal Reserve is here. Surprise! It's another 0.25% hike in the Federal Funds rate. Sure, you've already gotten this same gift three other times in 2018, and nine times since late 2015 – but what else would yo...
How Medical Debt Affects Your Credit
9:12pm, 16th October, 2018

How Medical Debt Affects Your Credit

The Crushing Effects Of Medical Debt How pervasive is America's medical debt problem? According to 2017 data from the credit bureau Experian, unpaid medical debt in America topped $127 billion. New data from Consumer Reports shows that almost 30...