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Your Credit Score, Your Money & What's at Stake (Updated Edition) How to Improve the 3-Digit Number that Shapes Your Financial Future

by: Weston, Liz

Your Credit Score, Your Money & What's at Stake (Updated Edition) How to Improve the 3-Digit Number that Shapes Your Financial Future

by: Weston, Liz

ISBN 13:
9780137016617
ISBN 10:
0137016611
Edition: Revised
Format: Paperback
Copyright: 02/09/2009
Publisher: FT Press
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Summary

A noted personal finance columnist has updated her bestselling book on credit scores to show readers how to maximize their credit score and save themselves a fortune. Weston reveals the tough new realities of borrowing and credit scoring, and shows why they aren't going to change any time soon.

Author Biography

Liz Pulliam Weston is the most-read personal finance columnist on the Internet, according to Nielsen//NetRatings. Her twice-weekly columns for MSN Money reach more than 12 million people each month. She’s also the author of the question-and-answer column “Money Talk,” which appears in the Los Angeles Times and other newspapers throughout the country.

Weston appears regularly on television and radio, including NPR’s “Talk of the Nation” and “All Things Considered,” American Public Media’s “Marketplace Money,” and “Fox Business.” For several years, she was a weekly commentator on CNBC’s “Power Lunch.” Her advice on credit and finance has been featured in Consumer Reports, Elle, O the Oprah Magazine, Parents, Real Simple, Woman’s World, the Boston Globe, the Chicago Tribune, Associated Press, and numerous other publications. The first edition of her book Your Credit Score was selected as “recommended reading” by The Wall Street Journal Online.

Formerly a personal finance writer for the Los Angeles Times, Weston has won numerous reporting awards. She was part of a three-member writing team that won a Gerald Loeb Award for coverage of the Comparator Systems penny stock scandal in 1997. She was also a member of the Anchorage Daily News team that won a Pulitzer Prize for Meritorious Public Service in 1989 for coverage of the alcoholism epidemic among native Alaskans.

She is the author of the books Easy Money: How to Simplify Your Finances and Get What You Want Out of Life (2007, FT Press) and Deal with Your Debt: The Right Way to Manage Your Bills and Pay Off What You Owe (2005, Pearson Prentice Hall). Her advice on budgeting is featured in The Expert’s Guide to the Baby Years (2006, Clarkson Potter).

Weston is a graduate of the certified financial planner training program at University of California, Irvine. She lives in Los Angeles with her husband and daughter. She can be reached via the “Contact Liz” form on her Web site, www.asklizweston.com.

Acknowledgments	p. xvii
About the Author	p. xix
Introduction to the Third Edition	p. xxi
Why Your Credit Score Matters	p. 1
How Credit Scoring Works	p. 15
VantageScore-A Revolution or Just More of the Same?	p. 37
Improving Your Score-The Right Way	p. 45
Credit Scoring Myths	p. 65
Coping with a Credit Crisis	p. 77
Rebuilding Your Score After a Credit Disaster	p. 101
Identity Theft and Your Credit	p. 123
Emergency! Fixing Your Credit Score Fast	p. 145
Insurance and Your Credit Score	p. 155
Keeping Your Score Healthy	p. 171
Index	p. 187
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