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What are Credit Scores and Worthiness? One of the most ubiquitous ways that digital society now dictates our lives is with business and personal credit scores. Based on reports and calculations for any company’s or individual’s transactions, the credit reporting bureaus: Equifax, TransUnion and Experian - compile and assign up to date numerical scores that measure creditworthiness and supposed risk of default. This can affect the scored party’s ability to secure loans, rent living or office accommodations, and a host of other functions.

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Finance allah shmoop What are credit scores and credit worthiness

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Remember that scene from wayne's world Alice cooper lets him

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backstage They bow and chant Where'd i worthy We're not

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worthy Well basically just swap one of the greatest rock

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and roll singers with your local banker Yeah well as

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much as you'd rather hang out with alice cooper this

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nerdy guy here is wet A more important to your

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credit That long hair thing worked when he was in

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his twenties And not so much now I guess Anyway

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if you have a bank account or a credit card

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or are generally tapped into the banking and credit system

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of the world in any way shape or form you

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have a credit score You might not know it But

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you do Where does that score come from And yeah

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It's known as yours Fico score While fico stands for

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fair isaac corporation that's a publicly traded company and that's

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what they do they provide credit scores and they try

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to be fair like isaac Anyway those scores were requested

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and released through one of the big three credit bureaus

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Equifax experian in trans union Oh my These guys give

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you a number That kind of thing finds your reliability

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in making payments to banks or other lending institutions who

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might loan you dough Well why would you care home

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Because that number you get directly affect the price you

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pay to rent money The worst Your credit score the

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higher your rent have will likely be in who likes

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to pay high rent especially when it comes to renting

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money Well the worst fico score is a zero and

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were wondering what you'd need to have done Teo get

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that like three bankruptcies in a bank robbery Maybe Well

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we want to meet the third guy who loaned you

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money at that point Anyway the bill gates perfect score

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is an eight Fifty on such a show off And

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here are roughly the breakdowns for how banks think of

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credit Score c it's all color coded here with the

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red yellow and green Well the goal here in having

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a score is to determine your reliability in paying back

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a given loan Yes the amount you're borrowing also matters

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But to speed up the initial evaluation of you is

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a borrower Wealthy credit score is applied to you and

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it lets banks quickly come to a yes or no

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or ah maybe decision Yeah quickly that credit score thing

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helps and if the answers and no well then you

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can always backpack across the country and stay in youth

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hostels So yeah you don't want to be murdered by

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a deranged dutch businessman and we suggest you stay current

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on your us visa payments and have a high credit 00:02:30.173 --> [endTime] score Be creditworthy because you are worthy Hope yellow

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