Comparing variable-rate loans can be tricky because some private student lenders tie rates to the prime rate while others use the one-month or three-month London interbank offered rate, or Libor.
Others will allow fixed-rate top-ups because the change is considered an "exceptional circumstance".
He did not play cute like the others distinguishing between tax-rate hikes vs. new tax revenue through other means.
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Others cannot qualify for the fixed-rate "prime" loans they need, or they are prohibited from refinancing by prepayment penalties meant to assure the lender that the borrower's high payments would continue for a minimum number of years.
"Some sectors are booming while others, which are very interest rate-sensitive and sensitive to a high dollar, are really doing it tough, " she says.
With Ohio and Indiana zeroing out their estate taxes and others likely to follow suit, the remaining high-rate states will have an increasingly hard time holding onto their mobile high-income citizens as they get older.
But it really is vital that Congress get its act together and pass some of these important pieces of legislation that have -- in the case of surface transportation and in the case of the aforementioned student loan rate legislation and a host of others -- have enjoyed bipartisan support in the past.
Thus although the two studies agree that interest-rate increases hurt some economies more than others, they disagree about which economies are most sensitive.
Markets that fall down come back, and this the property investment market has come back from a very still place at a a rate that caught some flat-footed while buoying others aloft.
If Wal-Mart's growth rate falls, while that of others increases, its economic model may destabilize and become vulnerable to attack.
Some credit card issuers might get hit harder than others by limitations on rate increases, promotional offers and fees like over-limit charges and upfront charges to subprime borrowers.
The Bush Administration's proposed new savings accounts are a step--a remarkably bold one--toward a radical tax change in the U.S. This revolution is moving toward what I and others have long advocated: a flat tax--an income tax system with a single rate that would apply after a high threshold and that would exempt levies on capital gains, dividends and interest.
By adolescence, one-fourth of college-bound students rate themselves in the top 1% in their ability to get along with others, research shows.
The adverse scenario for card losses envisaged in American banks' stress tests, a cumulative two-year loss rate of 22.5%, looks increasingly like the base case to others.
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