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On AlterNet: interest rates

Stories, blog posts, and videos tagged as "interest rates"

Defending Middle-Class Consumer-Culture on the Backs of the Poor

Defending Middle-Class Consumer-Culture on the Backs of the Poor

Sasha Abramsky, Comment Is Free. March 4, 2008.
The bottom dollar: cutting interests rates instead of fighting inflation hurts the economy's most vulnerable.

Hey Bush, Stimulate My Interest Rate

Hey Bush, Stimulate My Interest Rate

Nomi Prins, Newsday. February 2, 2008.
We can't solve our economic pain with another handout -- we need to regulate excessive exorbitant rates and nontransparent lending practices.

Housing Bubble Pops; It's Recession Time

Housing Bubble Pops; It's Recession Time

Dean Baker, TruthOut.org. September 12, 2007.
The growth of the housing bubble made this sort of collapse inevitable, just as the crash of the stock bubble was inevitable.