Follow along as we try to buy a hat in each of America's three major credit eras to see what data is collected and used to determine creditworthiness at different points in American history.
Credit scores are pretty mysterious, but they also shape your economic destiny. It determines where you can live, what you can buy, and sometimes even what job you can get. But how do credit bureaus come up with these all-encompassing numbers? This President's Day we turn to KUOW's newest podcast Control F where host Teo Popescu tells host Clare McGrane about the data that credit scores feed on, and how little we really know about how they're calculated.
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