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AI lending can be a tool for social justice if it’s programmed in the right way.
A right to be forgotten is not about compassion, it’s about science.
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Cancer survivors often struggle to access the same range of financial products as the general population.
Buying milk instead of an energy drink? You might be a good credit risk.
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What you buy at the grocery store can predict whether you pay your credit card bills on time, new research suggests.
Nine members of a Bank of England committee vote on interest rate moves that affect everyone in the country.
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The committee that decides on UK interest rates has been independent of government since 1997 – but it still attracts controversy.
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Making financial firms more aware of their consumers’ needs could provide much-needed support during the cost of living crisis – and beyond.
One way to get a good credit score is to pay bills on time every month.
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Trends show credit scores are rising, with nearly half of all US consumers boasting ‘very good’ or ‘excellent’ numbers.
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Under a normal lease, you enter an agreement with a leasing company. A novated lease includes another party in the agreement – your employer.
Gift-giving can be a joyful part of the holiday – unless it leads to a raft of late fees.
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Offers of interest-free loans may sound appealing, but there are many risks as well.
Developing countries are calling for more funding and for changes at the World Bank.
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The biggest issues at COP27 involve financing for low-income countries hit hard by climate change. A former World Bank official describes some promising signs she’s starting to see.
“Mortgage approved”: an increasingly unlikely outcome in the current environment.
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Borrowers want to know when soaring mortgage rates will go down again.
Raw sewage bubbles up in the front yard of a home in Jackson, Mississippi, on Oct. 20, 2021.
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Congress has approved billions of dollars to fix water and sewer systems across the US. But getting that money to needy communities depends on how states define a key word.
Kristalina Georgieva, the Managing Director of the International Monetary Fund, speaking in Senegal in 2019.
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The IMF sends its staff on two types of mission to member countries: to assess the state of the country’s macro economy or to assess the need for financial support.
People’s ability to buy property is at a record low.
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History indicates house prices are more likely to see a correction and prolonged stagnation, not a crash
Part of a restoration edict of Ammisaduqa, one of the rulers of ancient Babylon.
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A scholar of the ancient Near East explains how loan forgiveness was handled thousands of years ago in the Bible and royal decrees.
The writing was on the wall in Sri Lanka.
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An expert on Sri Lanka’s economy identifies and explains three key challenges that Ranil Wickremesinghe will have to overcome if he hopes to steer the country out of its crisis.
Anna Sorokin, better known as Anna Delvey, during her trial in April 2019. Sorokin is the subject of a new Netflix miniseries.
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Despite the belief that people are deeply skeptical of strangers, study after study shows that humans are primed to trust one another.
The price of used cars has soared during the pandemic.
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Higher interest rates reduce demand for goods and services, which makes it harder for companies to raise prices. But there are risks as well.
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The government has civil and criminal tools to try and recover billions of pounds.
Student loan borrowers save a collective of $7.1 billion per month thanks to the loan pause.
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Student loan forgiveness doesn’t benefit the economy the way some advocates believe it would, an economist argues.
Currently, the total outstanding federal student loan debt is $1.7 trillion.
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As federal student loan debt continues to rise, a number of scholars discuss how debt affects the nation’s college students, graduates and the economy as a whole.