Good jobs are hard to find, and may be nearly impossible if you have bad credit.
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In other words, companies couldn't factor in a customer's bad credit when setting rates.
One potential worry is sub-prime lending: loans to people with a bad credit history.
Banks, Kaufer says, use similar descriptive analysis to determine if you're a good or bad credit risk.
However, Santa can only do so much to fulfill these requests if you have a bad credit score.
He also noted that many of the people now being trapped by bad credit payments failed to plan.
The Fed unanimously approved new rules that safeguard subprime borrowers those with bad credit and low incomes.
Orchard serves as a lifeline to the underbanked and those with bad credit.
Today a bad credit score can make it even harder to get bank financing for starting or expanding a business.
There are guides for reading market indicators, repairing bad credit, saving for college and cloning billionaire Warren Buffett's value-investing strategy.
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At least that is the way it works when an ordinary citizen judged to be a bad credit risk seeks a loan.
Good credit, bad credit, anything that lets us live the high life.
People with bad credit scores will also surely no longer have to pay interest rates of 1, 000% a year to payday lenders.
The official said police believe Ms. Walker was being paid to purchase or lease cars and register vehicles for people with bad credit.
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Sub-prime lending (to those with bad credit histories), leveraged financing (some leasing, for example) and credit-card lending have all been growing especially and worryingly fast.
Personal credit is a new business in China, and the discipline imposed by the fear of acquiring a bad credit history is sorely lacking.
However, a bad credit score is not a life sentence, said Ted Daniels, founder and president of the Society for Financial Education and Professional Development.
Sort of the same way a person with bad credit pays higher interest rates to buy a house or a car, Fannie Mae's credit was messed up.
As the FICO data proves, the number of people with bad credit has grown significantly post-recession, leaving more people with no idea how to dig themselves out of their credit woes.
Therefore, the best advice for people with bad credit is to dilute the negative information by maximizing the amount of positive information coming into their credit report on a consistent basis.
While an applicant with good credit is more likely to be approved for this standard card, there are some places that will offer unsecured credit cards for bad credit risks.
If you fall into the bad credit category, the most inexpensive way for you to maximize the positive information on your credit report, and therefore rebuild your credit, is to get a secured credit card.
Vic Tanon, chief simplicity officer at Emplicity, an organization that consults in hiring practices across the U.S., says a bad credit rating is likely to be more of a factor in certain industries like financial services.
The fact that President Bush has become seized with the Soviets' bad credit rating is all the more striking given that he has recently made Ed Hewett his top Soviet specialist on the National Security Council staff.
But, instead of bad credit risks and overvaluations, the industry is flirting with a black box the contents of which include a legal doctrine bent on the destruction of the very civilization which has created modern debt-driven finance.
With loans to consumers with bad credit blowing up all over the place, it's only natural that banks would turn their attention to the other end of the spectrum: credit for the extremely rich, or at least extremely credit worthy.
The NINA was designed as a sort of bridge loan, said Vice Chairman John Hart, for borrowers who have a bad credit rating but need money until they can repair it and get a lower-cost loan from somebody else.
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