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Record-high credit card interest rates cost consumers $25 billion in 2023: report
The Hill ^ | 02/22/2024 | Taylor Giorno

Posted on 02/22/2024 6:30:02 AM PST by ChicagoConservative27

The average annual percentage rate (APR) on credit cards nearly doubled to 22.8 percent in 2023 from 12.9 percent in 2013, costing consumers around $25 billion in interest fees last year, according to a new analysis by the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB).

The average APR hit the highest level on record at the end of last year, according to the bureau’s analysis of data from the Federal Reserve, which started tracking it in 1994.

The surge in the overall average APR comes as credit card debt has hit an all time high. U.S. credit card debt topped $1.1 trillion in the fourth quarter of 2023, and delinquencies have ticked up as well, according to the New York Federal Reserve.

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Culture/Society; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: bideneconomy; bidenflation; bidenlegacy; consumers; credicard; debt; interest; rates
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Like I did with my student loans, I am paying off credit cards and not using those with higher interest rates, however paying cash is getting difficult as more and more merchants will not accept cash. It’s only a matter of time before the Big Guy seeking his election will bailout credit card debt, particularly if someone is caregorized as DEI or illegal immigrant .


21 posted on 02/22/2024 7:06:07 AM PST by Brandonmark (November 2024 cannot come soon enough!)
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To: Dilbert San Diego

Are you fine with high IQ, educated people making lots of money off of those irresponsible people?

These same people print money out of nowhere, destroying individual’s wealth via inflation.

The rates are usurious.

There’s no CC bailout in the works. I think CC debt is over a trillion dollars now.


22 posted on 02/22/2024 7:06:09 AM PST by EEGator
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To: EEGator

I don’t know if you’re talking about elected officials or people who run credit card companies or bankers making money and causing inflation.

I don’t know what the laws on usury are. Credit card rates are high no question.

I don’t have an answer as far as what we do to protect stupid people from themselves. If people are personally responsible about their finances they will avoid the problems.


23 posted on 02/22/2024 7:14:48 AM PST by Dilbert San Diego
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To: Brandonmark

Biden won’t do it, because the Credit Card companies have been his biggest backers over the years.


24 posted on 02/22/2024 7:25:50 AM PST by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: Dilbert San Diego

I was talking about bankers, but government is intertwined in the issue.

Part of the hazard must be on the banks as well.
If one loans money to a person who can’t pay it back, both should feel it.

CC companies currently charge up to 35%. It’s insane.

I could make money off of young adults and elderly people, but I’m not a piece of shit.
People confuse legal with moral.

Our country is headed in a very bad direction and everyone is going to feel it.


25 posted on 02/22/2024 7:27:39 AM PST by EEGator
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To: ChicagoConservative27

I thought exactly the same thing, Biden will cancel credit card debt.

What I suspect he’ll do is order these companies to cancel debt and legislate “new, more equitable” interest rates for credit cards.

Glad I paid the damned things off decades ago and haven’t used one since...


26 posted on 02/22/2024 7:28:43 AM PST by Bon of Babble (You Say You Want a Revolution?)
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To: EEGator

One of the reasons that Delaware shouldn’t even be a state. Let Pennsylvania annex it.


27 posted on 02/22/2024 7:28:57 AM PST by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: EEGator

Deep State wants the middle class annihilated.

There will be no bailout.


28 posted on 02/22/2024 7:31:17 AM PST by mewzilla (Never give up; never surrender!)
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To: GOPJ

Glenn Beck had a report on a few days ago that said ALL major indicators show a price increase of ≈ 33% on everything across the board since 2020.

My grocery bill alone tells me this is true - along with my utility bill.


29 posted on 02/22/2024 7:32:31 AM PST by Bon of Babble (You Say You Want a Revolution?)
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To: EEGator

Very few of those companies are even physically in Delaware.
BoA bought MBNA, so they have personnel in Delaware.
I’m sure that keeping the jobs in Newark were understood as a part of the deal.
BoA HQ is really in Charlotte.

If you made DE part of PA, it would make PA less purple or even blue.


30 posted on 02/22/2024 7:33:35 AM PST by EEGator
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To: Bon of Babble

Biden and his goons are doing everything they can to destroy the county.


31 posted on 02/22/2024 8:16:06 AM PST by GOPJ ( New York Bank loans can bankrupt YOU if some Soros Bimbo doesn't like you. Just ask Trump.)
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To: EEGator

It’s one thing if they’re are truly broke or they don’t understand the difference between a want and a need. People don’t need to buy a dozen oh so cute shoes, or the biggest truck tires, or have steak every night, or party every weekend. All the weekend rentals around here were rented last week and that $$$$ was likely put on cards. Why anything was rented during cold rainy weather is crazy but then vacays have only increased the past 4 years.


32 posted on 02/22/2024 8:40:09 AM PST by bgill
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To: Bon of Babble

It’s becoming a nightmare under Biden... for all of us.

And yet Biden has billions of dollars to give money to illegals... and more to Ukraine and to every member of his base.

Add billions of dollars for deadbeat ‘students’ who major in ‘Basket weaving for Sexual Weirdos’... and that rounds out his ways to bribe groups to vote for him. Inflation is Biden’s way up upping the tax rate without having to go through Congress to do it.


33 posted on 02/22/2024 8:40:59 AM PST by GOPJ ( New York Bank loans can bankrupt YOU if some Soros Bimbo doesn't like you. Just ask Trump.)
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To: Brandonmark

You have to ask and ask again. Had ordered an oven part and the guy didn’t tell me to bring cash so ended up having to pay 3% more for using a cc. Finally got my car back from the shop after nearly a month and remembered to ask. Yep, 3% to use a card so they took a check. I’ve been wondering if cc were in trouble and now we’re told Capitol One is buying Discover Card.


34 posted on 02/22/2024 8:53:00 AM PST by bgill
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To: dfwgator

Brandon only has a few more months to protect himself, Hunter or the card companies. After that, who knows. Why is Capitol One buying Discover?


35 posted on 02/22/2024 8:55:39 AM PST by bgill
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