Personal Finance Advice

In this day and age, you have to guard against people who want to steal your financial information. Thieves want your credit card numbers, bank account information, and even your retirement accounts. Heck, thieves are even filing tax returns under other people’s Social Security numbers to claim the refunds. Even if the thieves don’t steal [...]

This week’s lecture was about credit reports, credit reporting bureaus, identity theft, and collection agencies. Quite a scattering of topics. The first part of the class was on credit scores and credit bureaus. Dave makes the point that a FICO score is an, “I love debt score” because the only way to get a FICO [...]