Salon.com > OKCupid http://www.salon.com Fri, 04 Jan 2013 12:45:00 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 America’s credit system is broken http://www.salon.com/2013/01/03/americas_credit_system_is_broken/ http://www.salon.com/2013/01/03/americas_credit_system_is_broken/#comments Thu, 03 Jan 2013 17:48:00 +0000 http://www.origin.railrode.net/?p=13160862 Next New Deal My (early) New Year’s resolution was to get a credit card. You may remember that I have never had a credit card. And thus if I were on the dating market, my OKCupid inquiries would be flatly rejected. It’s not that I have a bad score. I just don’t have one. I had a good score when I was dutifully paying off my student loan after I graduated, but then through paying dirt-cheap rent in Harlem and never paying for cable I was able to pay off the loan. Since then I haven’t owned any credit products. I’ve paid my rent on time every month and paid every bill before the due date. But those things don’t make their way over to FICO. I’ve thus landed myself in quite the Catch-22 that speaks volumes about the lending industry and our reliance on it.

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