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This informative page spells out your rights to your own credit reports and explains procedures to correct misinformation and out-dated information.

Use this calculator to estimate your credit score:

Credit Score Estimator

You can interpret this video as a commercial for MyRichUncle.com, but it explains how students and parents have been cheated by financial aid offices for years.

So, define ‘credit crunch’. This article may have been written in 1998, but its relevance couldn’t be more obvious.

Two things: the jaw-dropping extent of the problem, and the contrast between actual news and the superficial fluff we usually get here in the U.S.

The trick to living successfully is to appreciate good information no matter what the source. This article certainly provides food for thought as to where we might be headed.

There is a dot-gov in the URL but... If you read this site and decide it's too complicated to understand, surely that is the intent.

Whether you call it circle lending or private loans, it's the only kind of credit that really makes sense; personal, local, organically generated loans made by people who actually know you.

Teachable, testable, factoids presented in a 'don't worry, be happy' format for grades 6-12. There's a 14-minute video on the site as well.