To: Howard Marks, billionaire
Your website states: “About 25.5% of consumers — or 43.4 million people — had credit scores below 600 in April, according to FICO Inc. Historically, only about 15% of consumers — or 25.5 million — have had scores below that level, FICO said.”
You are mistaken.
A trend illustrated by credit score company Fair Isaac (FICO) indicates this, from 2005 through 2011:
23.6 – 23.3 – 23.8 – 24.1 – 25.1 – 25.5 – 24.7
A June, 2011 report by an organization named Demos cites your article.
What is the name of the person at Fair Isaac who was the source for those statistics? If you refer to written information, what are the names of those documents, and who provided them?
What is your corrections policy?