By implication, of course, that s a prescription for restrained inflation and an end to rate increases.
Goodwin, the North Carolina's insurance commissioner, said there's more to regulation than capping rate increases.
Rate increases have leveled off in recent years, and some homeowners have even found cheaper policies.
The regulatory filing made no mention of possible rate increases resulting from the proposed merger.
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Second, under ObamaCare, insurance providers are generally required to publicly release and explain rate increases.
So are you closing the door on new tax rate increases as part of this?
Bay State officials initially denied 235 of 274 rate increases proposed by insurers last year.
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Barack Obama, by contrast, seems to have proposed tax-rate increases for just about every federal tax.
Other carriers have also projected steep rate increases during private meetings and conversations with brokers.
Already some central banks have held off interest-rate increases that looked certain a few weeks ago.
That spells more trouble for the stockmarket, which tends to perform poorly after multiple interest-rate increases.
This means more interest-rate increases after this week's, perhaps tipping the economy into eventual recession.
That, and the prospect of further rate increases to come, have spooked the entire stockmarket.
"We have one more year of rate increases that local governments will have to pay, " DiNapoli said.
Passengers are now bracing for rate increases from the larger airlines to compound their already higher prices.
The latest GDP numbers may give the central bank leeway to pause on rate increases, analysts say.
And as we learned in '87, we don't today need rate increases to achieve our dollar-price goals.
But it is important to have these steps in places to protect consumers from unjustifiable rate increases.
The tax rate increases will cause renewed recession, and result in less rather than more federal revenues.
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Interest rate increases are always bad news for households, especially those who use loans to make ends meet.
That is one reason why many cardholders received significant rate increases before the CARD Act went into effect.
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This was on top of very large tax rate increases, the top bracket increased from 6% to 77%.
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There is still a fair amount of risk in fixed income, either from inflation or interest rate increases.
But two other states whose filings were examined by the committee, Rhode Island and Maryland, signaled premium rate increases.
The Fed's relentless rate increases promise to make borrowing more expensive as well.
It is the grand finale of the CARD Act, capping late fees and providing possible relief from rate increases.
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Some may grant rate increases to individual partners or associates they deem worthy.
People can avoid future rate increases and pay off existing balances over time.
Although corporate borrowing costs have risen a bit, overall financial conditions have tightened little after the Fed's rate increases.
Trial lawyers and various civic groups blame the losses and the huge rate increases on underpricing during the 1990s.
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