Tag: Loans
How do credit scores work? 2 finance professors explain how lenders...
D. Brian Blank, Mississippi State University and Tom Miller Jr., Mississippi State University
With the cost of borrowing money...
Buying gifts? Why ‘buy now, pay later’ could be a dangerous...
Jay L. Zagorsky, Boston University
Gift-givers hoping to splurge this holiday season despite the pinch of high inflation have...
How to steer money for drinking water and sewer upgrades to...
Andrian Lee, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee and Melissa Scanlan, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
When storms like Hurricane Ian strike, many people...
How raising interest rates curbs inflation – and what could possibly...
Rodney Ramcharan, University of Southern California
After about three decades of relatively low inflation, consumer prices are skyrocketing again.
Student loan debt is crushing Americans – 4 essential reads
Alvin Buyinza, The Conversation and Jamaal Abdul-Alim, The Conversation
US$1.7 trillion. That’s how much college students and graduates owed...
Should there be a limit on how much debt a young...
Paul Schofield, Bates College
Young Americans between the ages of 18 and 29 owe over US$1 trillion in student...
Should there be a limit on how much debt a young...
Paul Schofield, Bates College
Young Americans between the ages of 18 and 29 owe over US$1 trillion in student...
Sanders and AOC want to cap interest rates on consumer loans...
Anne Fleming, Georgetown University
Sen. Bernie Sanders and Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez want to cap consumer interest rates in an effort to curb “sky high” credit...
EXPLORING NATURE
The chickadee in the snowbank: A ‘canary in the coal mine’...
Benjamin Sonnenberg, University of Nevada, Reno
Wet snow pelts my face and pulls against my skis as I climb...
