5 steps to a better credit score

How is your overall financial health? Do you know what your FICO score is? Do you even know what FICO stands for? If improving your credit score is one of your resolutions for 2012, there is hope.Your FICO score, which stands for Fair Isaac Corporation (the company who created the formula) is something you can check for free annually through three different credit bureaus.

Debit-Card Pitchwoman Orman Takes on Conflict: Susan Antilla

Suze Orman, the ubiquitous guru of personal finance, released a new book on Jan. 10, and her fans couldn’t part with their $16 a copy fast enough. In less than two weeks, “The Money Class” rose to fourth place among paperback advice books on the New York Times best-seller list.

Wealth Club: It's Easy to Get Your Credit Report. Here's How

In our  financial advice column  for the centsless, Michael Fleck fields questions on how to get your money right. Send your queries to wealthclub@goodinc.com. I read your interview with Suze Orman last week, and thought it was very informative, but I still don’t really have a good understanding of how the credit score is calculated, and how they even get my information! I want to look into my ...

LISD remains Recognized district

Lewisville ISD has received some good news concerning the recently released Academic Excellence Indicator System (AEIS) for 2011, though some data suggest there are still areas in which to improve.

RPI drops Big Red Freakout! game

TROY - It had been a while since Rensselaer Polytechnic had suffered a blowout defeat.

Commentary and weekly watch by Doug Noland

It has been labeled an intellectual exercise and ridiculed as intelligentsia. I'll stick defiantly to the view that it remains one of the most important issues of our time: are the US Treasury and government-related debt markets part of a historic credit bubble and global financial mania?

A Guide to the Digital Advertising Industry That's Watching Your Every Click

In this excerpt from his new book, The Daily You , University of Pennsylvania professor Joseph Turow takes you on a tour of the industry that's trafficking in the data you generate every day on the Internet. ...

Credit Acceptance Announces Fourth Quarter and Full Year 2011 Earnings

SOUTHFIELD, Mich. -- Credit Acceptance Corporation (referred to as the "Company", "we", "our", or "us") announced consolidated net income of $50.0 million, or $1.91 ...

First Person: I Was a Subprime Mortgage Processor

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Got A Minute? Boost Your Credit In Six Easy Steps

n Fair Isaac's scale of 300 to 850. How they earned those gold stars is no secret. A quick peek into their credit files reveals that these star pupils haven't got any fancy tricks up their sleeves.