Tag Archives: APR

Time is Money (Really!)

You may have noticed that different kinds of loans tend to have very different interest rates. For example, a typical 30-year mortgage today has an annual rate of about 6% (which is very low by historical standards). That might not seem like much, but 30 years is a very long time. Imagine you’re buying a [...]

Steep interest rates may be better than no credit at all

Just in time for Christmas, First Premier Bank is out with a new credit card that offers rates as low as – 80 percent! It’s no mistake. This credit card’s interest rate is 79.9 percent. […] So for a $300 balance, a cardholder would pay about $20 a month in interest. The rate is the [...]