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Making sense of all the rising debt chatter

By David Weyher|2019-02-18T16:19:15-05:00March 30th, 2018|SweetPay|

Some journalists have been sounding the rising debt alarm bell. While I’m not worried about current debt levels, I do take solace in the concerns being raised, as there was none of that pre-2008. What I will attempt to do in this post is to break household debt down for you. The Federal Reserve Bank [...]

The Interest Rate Dilemma

By David Weyher|2019-02-18T14:54:15-05:00December 29th, 2017|SweetPay|

Consumer credit makes the world go-round. Fair Issac Corporation founded this thing called FICO that we all have come to know and love (or hate!) It’s basically a score derived from variables off an individual’s credit report that measures their credit risk. A FICO score can range from 300 to 850, although someone with a [...]