Would you trust your bank more if you knew your own credit score? The Fair Isaac Corporation, creator of the FICO score, thinks you would, and it's pushing banks to share that information with their customers.

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FICO Wants Banks to Tell You Your Credit Score originally appeared on DailyFinance on Fri, 05 Mar 2010 10:47:00.

Credit card issuers have devised plenty of ways to siphon money out of consumers' wallets by imposing big fees for small mistakes. But new rules proposed by the Federal Reserve Board would force lenders to keep the price of consumers' errors proportional to their mistakes.

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New Credit Card Rules Would Mean Smaller Fees for Smaller Mistakes originally appeared on DailyFinance on Thu, 04 Mar 2010 11:45:00.

In the face of growing pressure from within his own party, powerful Democratic Rep. Charles Rangel has decided to take a temporary leave of absence from his post as chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee until the Ethics Committee completes its investigation of him.

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Rep. Rangel Bows to Pressure and Temporarily Quits Tax Post originally appeared on DailyFinance on Wed, 03 Mar 2010 13:00:00.

As Australia continues to show strong signs of an economic recovery driven largely by Chinese demand for natural resources, its central bank raised interest rates for the fourth time since October. The Reserve Bank of Australia's key cash rate now stands at 4%.

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Australia Raises Interest Rates Again originally appeared on DailyFinance on Tue, 02 Mar 2010 11:00:00.

In the first annual report of his Middle Class Task Force, Vice President Joe Biden Friday proposed a range of reforms designed to help keep middle-class families afloat; among them, updating 401(k) regulations to make the system 'safe, transparent, and well regulated.'

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Biden's Task Force Seeks to Make 401(k)s Safer originally appeared on DailyFinance on Fri, 26 Feb 2010 13:15:00.