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The best high-yield savings account available right now pays 4.5% APY. Your credit card charges 20%. Holding both simultaneously costs you $1,550 a year on a $10,000 balance. The math does not care how good the savings rate feels.
By Marcus Cole · 3 min read
Someone on a podcast is telling you to invest while you're paying 24% interest on a credit card. The math on that advice is brutal. The order you tackle debt and investing matters more than the amounts, and it's simpler than the finance industry wants you to think.
By Sadie Park · 3 min read
FICO just launched new scoring models that incorporate BNPL data, and Affirm and Klarna are already reporting to the credit bureaus. With 41 percent of BNPL users making a late payment last year and 63 percent juggling multiple loans at once, the era of consequence-free installment debt is ending. Here's what to do before it catches up with you.
By Sadie Park · 4 min read