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Most People Preparing to Eat Dog Food in Retirement

Twilight of the Years

Cross-post from Steve of GetOutofDebt.org.

To make it through tough times more Americans have borrowed, stolen or raided their small retirement funds to make ends meet.

Loans from retirement funds jumped 20 percent last year. This really can’t be a big surprise to many. Faced with difficult financial decisions people will tend to gravitate towards the oath that seems easiest and less painful immediately.

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If You Use a Yahoo or AOL Email Address, Your Credit Score Probably Sucks

Loving Heights

Article Swap with Steve of GetOutofDebt.org

An interesting credit score data mining observation has emerged from our friends over at Credit Karma.

Apparently they took a look at the average credit scores of 20,000 people and placed those scores into bins based on the email address people use. They then calculated the average credit score.

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