ADULTING 101, Part 2
Credit, Debt, and Savings, - The Real Triforce of Adulting You won't learn this from your teachers, and your parents may fret about it constantly, without ever actually sharing their concerns or insight, but these three sides of your finances are key to your Golden Power. Each one affects the other, and there many misconceptions you will have to re-learn. It may even mean educating your own friends or family, because so many people have it wrong. Credit , as in "credit cards" and "credit score", is not just good, it is vital to success. If you want to know how vital, Muhammad Yunus got a Nobel PEACE Prize for helping people in extreme poverty find a way to get credit. Not a Nobel Economics Prize, which is also a thing. This guy got a peace prize, because he made their lives so much better by allowing them a small (micro, in fact) amount of money to get their careers started. Anyway, you may think: Credit is bad, Credit cards are only for emergenc...