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A Thousand Natural Shocks With Gabe S. Dunn

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The Origins of Trade Lines

In the US, a married woman was not allowed to have a credit card account of her own. So they came up with this way where she could be an authorized user on her husband's credit card. This term trade lines refers to it. It's actually something people sometimes even sell their trade lines.

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