Your Credit Score, Your Money & What’s at Stake
How to Improve the 3-Digit Number That Shapes Your Financial Future
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Weston, Liz Pulliam.
Your credit score, your money & what's at stake : how to improve the 3-digit number that
shapes your financial future / Liz Pulliam Weston. — Updated ed.
p. cm.
Rev. ed. of: Your credit score. 2nd ed. c2007.
ISBN 978-0-13-701661-7 (pbk. : alk. paper) 1. Credit scoring systems—United States. 2.
Consumer credit—United States. 3. Credit ratings—United States. I. Title.
HG3751.7.W47 2009b
332.7'43—dc22 2008053252
Dedication
To Will