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Your credit score affects everything from your mortgage rate to whether you can rent the apartment you want. But despite how important it is, many people believe myths about credit that can actually ...

Credit card debt has a way of sneaking up on you. One month, you're charging a few essentials to a rarely used credit card, and the next month you're staring at a balance that grows despite your best ...

The risks of walking around with your credit card are obvious, but it's hard to be aware of all the countless online scams that may target your card. The scammer's objective in both situations is the ...

Credit scores are weird. You can do the "right thing" and still watch your score drop. For example, a friend of mine paid off her mortgage early and closed her old credit cards to clean things up -- ...

As you read today’s article, imagine yourself in the shoes of my reader, Dr. Tom, who, like millions of us, has seen customer service vanish at just about every large bank in the country. We begin ...

People can feel a lot of shame about being in credit card debt. They think it means they're bad with money. That it's something to avoid, or a burden they can never pay off. Sign up for Life Kit's ...