A Brooklyn businessman is suing the credit-reporting agency Equifax for falsely reporting him as having no financial history because their system rejects his first name — God. God Gazarov — a Russian native who was named after his grandfather — claims that the company has stubbornly refused to correct the glitch after more than two…
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Does Student Loan Debt Make People Less Happy and Healthy?
Aug. 7, 2014 By Natalie Kitroeff People with student debt report worse health and greater financial stress long after they finish their degree, a new study from Gallup shows. The survey looked at 11,000 students who have graduated college since 1990 and found that people who took out more than $50,000 in loans rate their physical…
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Credit Card debt in Orlando changes as economy jumps
By Richard Burnett, Orlando Sentinel6:03 p.m. EDT, August 29, 2014Fueled by a stronger economy, credit-card debt is accelerating for the first time in years in Metro Orlando — one of the country’s fastest-growing markets for paying with plastic, a new study has found. Consumer credit-card debt in the metro area jumped nearly 5 percent in…
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Home Depot Credit Cards could have been hacked
Elizabeth Weise, USATODAY SAN FRANCISCO — A massive batch of credit and debit card information that went on sale on a criminal Internet site Tuesday may be from Home Depot stores and could be linked to hackers responsible for breaches at Target and P.F. Chang’s, security experts say. The credit card information was offered for…
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