Fault Lines: How Hidden Fractures Still Threaten the World Economy (New in Paper)
Fault Lines: How Hidden Fractures Still Threaten the World Economy (New in Paper)
Raghuram Rajan was one of the few economists who warned of the global financial crisis before it hit. Now, as the world struggles to recover, it’s tempting to blame what happened on just a few greedy bankers who took irrational risks and left the rest of us to foot the bill. In Fault Lines, Rajan argues that serious flaws in the economy are also to blame, and warns that a potentially more devastating crisis awaits us if they aren’t fixed.
Rajan shows how the individual choices that collectively brought about the economic meltdown–made by bankers, government officials, and ordinary homeowners–were rational responses to a flawed global financial order in which the incentives to take on risk are incredibly out of step with the dangers those risks pose. He traces the deepening fault lines in a world overly dependent on the indebted American consumer to power global economic growth and stave off global downturns. He exposes a system where America’s growing inequality and thin social safety net create tremendous political pressure to encourage easy credit and keep job creation robust, no matter what the consequences to the economy’s long-term health; and where the U.S. financial sector, with its skewed incentives, is the critical but unstable link between an overstimulated America and an underconsuming world.
In Fault Lines, Rajan demonstrates how unequal access to education and health care in the United States puts us all in deeper financial peril, even as the economic choices of countries like Germany, Japan, and China place an undue burden on America to get its policies right. He outlines the hard choices we need to make to ensure a more stable world economy and restore lasting prosperity.
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If I make a cash advance with my credit card and pay it off on the same day, will I still get charged interest?
Question by : If I make a cash advance with my credit card and pay it off on the same day, will I still get charged interest?
I bought something from a store and signed up to their 6 months zero interest credit. I need to return the item to the store but they said I can’t return it until I pay off the balance. I can’t use my Visa to pay it because you can’t use credit to pay credit, so would getting a cash advance be a good idea for this? When I pay off the balance with the stores credit, they said I’ll be able to return the item.
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Answer by Ginger
You will be charged very little interest for the cash advance if paid off quickly but the ca tran fee can be huge, like 3%. I don’t know why they want you to pay it off first and then get credit for the return! I just hate those 6 month and 12 month zero offers that bite you in the end, or in your case the beginning.
Are you not going through with a substitute? This requirement to pay for it and then get a credit makes absolutely no sense to me.
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If I consolidate my student loan with a personal loan can I still write off the interest?
Question by MLE: If I consolidate my student loan with a personal loan can I still write off the interest?
I had a federal student loan which I consolidated about 8 years ago to someone who eventually sold that loan to Citibank. I pay about 8.35% in interest. I am considering paying off that student loan with a personal loan where I can get a better interest rate. If I do this will I still be able to write off the interest I pay on my taxes?
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Answer by bostonianinmo
Nope. It will no longer be a student loan then. You may be able to consolidate several student loans into another student loan at a better rate, but if you pay it off with a personal loan you’ll be left with a non-deductible personal loan.
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