Posts Tagged ‘there’

Was There A “Global Savings Glut” In 1986?

Was There A “Global Savings Glut” In 1986?
It seems that, once again, former Fed Chief Alan Greenspan has grown tired of listening to his critics who have increasingly laid blame at his feet for the inflation of (and, more importantly, the subsequent bursting of) the nation’s housing bubble a few years back that led to a credit market melt-down shortly thereafter and the ongoing global financial mess.

Read more on GoldSeek.com

Action Line: There are no minimum charges on credit cards

Action Line: There are no minimum charges on credit cards
Speak up; merchants, by contract, cannot require a minimum charge

Read more on San Jose Mercury News

Is there an online calculator that will help you figure out what different actions will do to your FICO score?

Or a webpage that gives specific (not generalized) pointers as to what will impact your FICO (credit) score the most?

Is there a huge difference between a FICO credit score and the score given by the 3 credit bureaus?

I’ve already gotten my free credit reports from annualcreditreport.com but now I’m looking to monitor my credit score periodically from all three bureaus. I know that FICO is probably the biggest credit score service is their number that much different than what I’d get from the credit score source that Equifax, Experian and TransUnion use?

I just don’t want to pay so much more for nothing. If FICO says my Experian credit score is 700 and I go to Experian.com and their service says my score is 692, I don’t see the difference.

Thanks.