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marketnewslive.blogspot.com - 12/24/2008
Video - Your Money: Lower Interest Rates And You
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Just because the Federal Reserve is cutting interest rates, don't expect your credit card company to necessarily do the same. AP Personal Finance Editor Trevor Delaney takes a closer look.
International Long-Term Interest Rates
bespokeinvest.typepad.com - 12/28/2008
International Long-Term Interest Rates
— bespokeinvest.typepad.com — As shown in the charts below, long-term government interest rates are in steady downtrends across the globe.... While long-term interest rates with a "one" handle have been exclusive to Japan for several years, other countries, especially the US, are ... (more) International Long-Term Interest Rates

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portfolio.com - 12/19/2008
Against Lower Mortgage Rates
— portfolio.com — Glenn Hubbard and Charlie Mayer have a WSJ op-ed saying, in the clear words of their headline,... that " Low-Interest Mortgages Are the Answer "; Brad DeLong agrees, and yes, he's more astonished than anybody else that he's siding with ... (more) Against Lower Mortgage Rates
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econospeak.blogspot.com - 12/31/2008
Zero Is Not A Lower Bound For Interest Rates
— econospeak.blogspot.com — In recent days Paul Krugman has been flailing a model of the term structure of interest rates... and the liquidity trap based on the idea that there is an absolute lower bound of zero percent for nominal interest rates. This may have been true in the ... (more) Zero Is Not A Lower Bound For Interest Rates

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