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Welcome to her money I'm Jean Chatsky and I'm very happy to be with all of you this week.

You know, one of the things that I get asked time and time again, and it doesn't matter if

it's 2005 or 2010 or 2016 or 2017 as the case may be. We know that our credit has

never been more important. We also know that we are now in an environment where

interest rates they're going up, they're not going down anymore. We don't

expect them to go up too far. We don't expect them to go up too quickly, but they are headed in

that upward direction and that has an impact on your mortgages, your credit cards, your car loans. your

more mortgages your credit cards your car loans your student loans your home equity loans and home equity lines of credit

and it's just a signal to all of us that we need to be paying more attention to our credit

reports, our credit histories, and our credit scores.

And so who better to talk about those things as well as the world of personal finance in general with us?

Then Liz Weston, Liz has been covering personal finance for as long as I have, which is a very long time. She knows her stuff and I was very happy to sit down with her at

FinCon in San Diego. So everybody knows who you are. I mean, Liz Weston has been writing about personal finance for decades.

She's a wonderful author and speaker and commentator and her book, your credit score is a national bestseller it's in its fifth

edition I know you're currently writing for Nurd Wallet tell us what's on your

plate these days what's been happening for you?

I am so excited to work for Nerd Wallet. I started there in January and they have like a three-week

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