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Discover how your credit card bill compares to the U.S. average and learn ways to manage debt, lower interest costs, and take ...

Most credit cards have variable rates with direct connections to the Federal Reserve’s benchmark. It follows that credit card rates spiked along with the Fed’s string of 11 rate hikes starting in ...

Interest rates on credit cards have been unusually high for a while and have become an occasional target of politicians. In 2020, during Kamala Harris' first presidential campaign, she proposed ...

WASHINGTON - Sens. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., and Josh Hawley, R-Mo., introduced a bill on Tuesday that would cap credit card interest rates at 10% − an effort by two lawmakers who rarely see eye to eye.

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Unfortunately, if you’re among the half of credit cardholders who carry debt from month to month, you’re unlikely to catch much of a break in 2025. Even though rates have fallen to a low of 20.27 ...

The last time the Federal Reserve cut the federal funds rate was on Sept. 17 when the benchmark rate was reduced by a quarter point. The Fed cut rates three times in 2024. The average 30-year fixed ...

Americans collectively have $1.277 trillion in credit card debt, according to the latest consumer debt data from the Federal Reserve Bank of New York. This is a significant clampdown on current ...

Sens. Josh Hawley (R-Mo.) and Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) introduced a bill Tuesday seeking to cap credit card interest rates at 10 percent. “Credit card interest rates are out of control. Rates have ...

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