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What do you make of these findings? https://www.federalreserve.gov/econres/notes/feds-notes/are-income-and-credit-scores-highly-correlated-20180813.html https:
by dnissley 3y ago
What do you make of these findings?
https://www.federalreserve.gov/econres/notes/feds-notes/are-income-and-credit-scores-highly-correlated-20180813.html https://www.federalreserve.gov/econres/notes/feds-notes/are-...
As shown in the three panels, credit scores are distributed over the entire support for all three income groups, and, apart from the distribution of the high-income group having a larger mass at the high end of the distribution support, the shapes of the histograms of high- and middle-income groups are broadly consistent. Indeed, even among the high-income consumers, a significant mass of consumers have credit scores lower than 680, commonly known as "nonprime" or "subprime" borrowers.
- ohgodplsno 3y agoThat it doesn't matter if Johnny-seven-figures has a bad credit score. It's a non issue to him. Booh hoo he can't borrow to buy a Bugatti Veryon. The lower your income, the worse a credit score affects you. It's reverse means testing, where a bad credit score means you get into loans with higher interest rates which you cannot repay, which gets you worse rates that you cannot repay, etc.