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For those who are not familiar, F.I.C.O. is a credit reporting system started by the Fair Isaacs Corporation. Our blogger Ash Cash gives more details about this inside!

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There are plenty of reasons to use a credit card — convenience, accountability and safety among them — but when is it better just to step away from the swiper?

It's always been easy to go bankrupt but the recession made it that much easier, with 15 million people unemployed and struggling to pay their bills. An astonishing 1.5 million people went bankrupt in the past year, up 20 percent from a year earlier.

In the hope that we can make better financial decisions, here is a list of some of the common money mistakes many of us make every day:

Via:mainstreet.com By Brian O’Connell Economic experts are already calling 2010 the Year of Accountability, as the Credit Card Accountability, Responsibility and Disclosure (CARD) Act of 2009 kicks into high gear.