About the Author

Liz Pulliam Weston is an award-winning, nationally-syndicated personal finance columnist who previously authored the book, Your Credit Score: How to Fix, Improve, and Protect the 3-Digit Number that Shapes Your Financial Future (Prentice Hall 2004).

Liz is one of the most-read columnists on MSN Money and author of the question-and-answer column “Money Talk,” which appears in newspapers throughout the country, including the Los Angeles Times, the Cleveland Plain Dealer, the Palm Beach Post, the Portland Oregonian, the Newark Star-Ledger, Stars & Stripes, and others. You can find some of her most recent columns on her Web site, www.lizweston.com.

She appears weekly on CNBC's “Power Lunch” and has been interviewed on numerous other ...

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