Tag: interest rates
Jean Chatzky: Reduce Your Debt Before Interest Rates Soar
by Nikhil Hutheesing on Mar.04, 2011, under Towing
If you are sitting on a lot of debt, you need to take action quickly. Personal Finance expert Jean Chatzky explains that interest rates will rise so it’s important that you take steps now. In this video, Chatzky explains how to get started and discusses some great sites that might be of help.
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Jean Chatzky: Reduce Your Debt Before Interest Rates Soar originally appeared on DailyFinance on Fri, 04 Mar 2011 13:10:00.
Labor’s Fall — Not Oil’s Rise — Is Key to Inflation
by Vishesh Kumar on Mar.01, 2011, under Towing
Despite all the worry over the impact of rising oil prices, recall that the U.S. is now a largely services-based economy. And observe that the rising wages that have led to real overall cost rises in decades past are nowhere to be found today. Exhibit A is in Wisconsin.
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Labor’s Fall — Not Oil’s Rise — Is Key to Inflation originally appeared on DailyFinance on Tue, 01 Mar 2011 12:00:00.
Oil and Food Prices Keep Rising, but It’s Not Time for the Fed To Act
by Peter Cohan on Feb.28, 2011, under Towing
Unrest across the Middle East is pushing high oil prices higher, and that’s having a cascade effect that feels a lot like inflation as these higher prices bubble through the economy. Still, that’s not enough reason for the Fed to battle inflation by starting to raise rates.
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Oil and Food Prices Keep Rising, but It’s Not Time for the Fed To Act originally appeared on DailyFinance on Mon, 28 Feb 2011 12:00:00.
Trapped: The Fed Has Painted Itself Into a Corner
by Charles Hugh Smith on Feb.23, 2011, under Towing
Having committed itself to ultralow interest rates and quantitative easing, the Fed is now caught in a double bind: Continue those policies and keep pumping money into speculative, inflation-hiking commodity bets — or end them and let rates rise, with the harmful economic impact.
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Trapped: The Fed Has Painted Itself Into a Corner originally appeared on DailyFinance on Wed, 23 Feb 2011 12:30:00.
Bucking a Trend: Why the Dollar Could Rally in 2011
by Joseph Lazzaro on Feb.21, 2011, under Towing
Despite all the headwinds blowing against it — and they’re fierce — the U.S. dollar has been holding its own against the world’s major currencies. And if the U.S. recovery remains on track, the greenback has good odds of actually strengthening in 2011.
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Bucking a Trend: Why the Dollar Could Rally in 2011 originally appeared on DailyFinance on Mon, 21 Feb 2011 10:00:00.






