What Is Credit?

When a creditor or lender offers you credit, you agree to pay back the amount you spend or borrow plus interest. When you pay by credit you are borrowing.

Lucy Lazarony

February 8, 2017

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What Is Credit?

When a creditor or lender offers you credit, you agree to pay back the amount you spend or borrow plus interest. When you pay by credit you are borrowing.

Lucy Lazarony

February 08, 2017