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- Beat Tough Credit Card Terms
- Card companies are raising rates, lowering credit limits, and boosting minimum payments. Here's how to get your mind off of the punishing terms — or at least handle the changes if you're stuck with your card... You probably don't spend as much on your credit card as you...
- Articles 2009-04-14
- Credit Card Consumer Guide
- Until the Fed cleans up the credit card industry, take matters into your own hands. Protect yourself from rate hikes and punitive rule changes with these tips. As if things weren't rough enough for your finances these days, credit card issuers have started to play rough. They're jacking up...
- Articles 2009-04-15
- Obama to Confront Credit Card Industry
- Interest gouging practices by banks who received stimulus money will highlight President Obama's meeting Thursday with credit card companies, reports Bill Plante.
- Videos 2009-04-23
- Interest Rates Threatening the Recovery
- The U.S. hasn't pulled off a strong recovery without a housing rebound since the 1940s. So with mortgage rates rising since March, the Fed is getting worried, says CBS MoneyWatch.com blogger John Keefe.
- Videos 2009-06-30
- 5 Things That Could Kill the Housing Recovery
- The recession can't end until housing bounces back. There are many small signs of hope — and five big reasons to be cautious. ...
- Articles 2009-07-08
- Best Credit Cards for You
- Most people are unhappy with their credit cards, according to a Consumer Reports study. Senior editor Mandy Walker suggests some better alternatives.
- Videos 2009-10-08
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- Interest Rates Will Return to Normal, Whatever That Will Be
- Negative inflation and negligible interest rates confirm we are living in extraordinary times. But before asking when things will return to normal we should question what now constitutes normality.  I spent much of my life thinking any interest rate below 10 per cent would be low. That...
- Blog posts 2009-06-22
- Rising Interest Rates Are Killing the Recovery
- A sheaf of economic indicators this week indicates the recovery is in deep trouble. The biggest shock was a sharp increase in bond yields. The yield on 10 year Treasury bonds rose to a peak of four percent, the highest since last August, before pulling back to...
- Blog posts 2009-06-11
- Negative Interest Rates Aren't a Solution to the Crisis
- All deposits at commercial banks are stored at the respective central banks. This is a service provided by the Central Bank to the bank, for which it charges no commission or fee. Some central banks do however offer a little interest on the deposits they store for the banks. This...
- External links 2009-09-28
- Don't Fear Higher Interest Rates, Welcome Them
- The Federal Reserve’s Board of Governors is widely expected when it meets this week to keep its benchmark interest rate at the record low level, near zero, it’s been at since December. With that, Wall Street will again find reason to be cheerful, but it’s hardly cause to celebrate. ...
- Blog posts 2009-11-02
- A yen for action: the Bank of Japan should cut interest rates and the Fed should raise them.(Editorial)
- The US can stave off inflation by tightening its monetary policy and raising interest rates again. It can afford to do so because interest rates are still at historical lows, and the dollar needs to be raised. A decline in Japan's interest rates will stimThe US can stave off inflation...
- Research articles 1995-03-25
- Rising Interest Rates are Killing the Housing Recovery
- Want to refinance your house? With interest rates rising nearly a full point off the bottom, refinancing no longer makes sense for millions of homeowners - and that spells big trouble for the housing recovery and the economy in general. John Castellani, president of the Washington-based Business Roundtable, told...
- Blog posts 2009-06-11
- Interest rates head down, prices to soar.
- Jun 15, 2003 (The Sun-Herald - ABIX via COMTEX) The Commonwealth Bank of Australia CBA has indicated it may consider reducing interest rates. CBA's senior analyst, Craig James, said that with interest rates falling in the US, it is likely that fixed-rate mortgage loans...
- Research articles 2003-06-15
- The Role of Interest Rates in Influencing Long-Run Homeownership Rates
- This article is mainly about the role of Interest Rates in Influencing long-run homeownership rates. As a stated policy objective, the U.S. Department of Housing and urban Development seeks to boost the national homeownership rate to 70 percent by 2006. To accomplish this goal, they estimate that 3.8 million additional...
- White papers 2003-01-01
- Term Structure of Interest Rates, Yield Curve Residuals, and the ConsIstent Pricing of Interest Rates and Interest Rate Derivatives
- Dynamic term structure models DTSMs price interest rate derivatives based on the model implied fair values of the yield curve, ignoring any pricing residuals on the yield curve that are either from model approximations or market imperfections. This paper proposes a new framework that consistently prices both interest rates and...
- White papers 2002-09-10
- The Fed's Take On Interest Rates, Inflation
- The Fed doesn't directly control or set interest rates on mortgages, auto loans, credit-cards or other types of consumer debt. However, the Fed's actions and target interest rates do have a big effect on the general level and direction of interest rates on mortgages and other consumer financial products. For...
- White papers 2009-07-30
- The Surprising Benefits Of Rising Interest Rates
- Article discusses the effect of rising interest rates on bond portfolios. It states that bond investors who have made the investment for the income purpose earn more benefits from higher interest rates. Indeed, income generation is perhaps bonds' biggest advantage over other assets. The fact is, when interest rates rise,...
- White papers 2003-04-01
- Commentary: Interest rates, the economy and inflation
- * The decline in interest rates that began in the second Quarter of 2000 is over. Short, intermediate and long-term interest rates hit their lows in early November 2001. * The Fed Federal Reserve has overreacted and pushed short-term interest rates too low. Currently, short-term rates...
- Research articles 2001-11-28
- Negative Interest Rates Can Solve Our Unsolvable Problem of Debt Load
- I was relieved to find this Buiter article yesterday, as this subject was on my mind. It started when I read the piece from the New York Times, "Rising Interest on Nations Debts May Sap World Growth", which seems to make sense if you think we're entering inflation, but during...
- External links 2009-06-05
- The Role of Interest Rates in Federal Reserve Policymaking
- Most central banks, including the U.S. Federal Reserve System, implement their monetary policy by setting interest rates. This paper reviews the major changes that have taken place along the way from the Federal Reserve's interest rate-based policy structure of the 1960s to the interest rate-based structure in place today, and...
- White papers 2000-12-13
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