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Information on Interest Rates for Beginners

Just learning about economics for the first time and need some information on interest rates? Here we have interest rate information geared towards the complete beginner.

What's the Difference Between all the Interest Rates in the Newspaper?

What's the Difference Between all the Interest Rates in the Newspaper?

A Beginner's Guide to Economic Indicators

From a readers question: "I'm constantly hearing about economic indicators in the news, but I'm never sure what they're talking about. What are economic indicators and why are they important?" Find out why interest rates are important here.

Economics for Beginners FAQ

Answers available here to many questions, such as "What are interest rates?"

What are Interest Rates?

Like anything else in economics, there's a few competing definitions of the term interest rate. In this article, we get a firm grasp of what people mean when they talk about an interest rate.

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