10 Things + Credit

Trillions, Seinfeld, credit score hacking, credit is super old, black cards

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Sunday Money
May 10, 2026

“I will gladly pay you Tuesday for a hamburger today”

The idea of credit has been around for a long time, but now we have an entire modern society built upon it. It went from something only risky people participated in, to something you need to level up in life, to something you can use to buy your chonies. How did that happen?

10 Things 👇️ 

  1. Credit is extremely old

  2. Credit cards are not that old

  3. He hacked his credit score this way this way 📺️ 

  4. 4 in 10 Americans with credit card debt get this wrong

  5. Jerry Seinfeld is responsible for the AmEx Black Card

  6. Improve your credit score without debt 📺️ 

  7. How did credit scores even start?

  8. How did America get to $1T in credit card debt?!

  9. % of people that have a “good” credit score

  10. These beliefs about money are keeping you poor

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