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Unlike higher gas prices, which hurt almost everyone, higher borrowing costs have an uneven impact. In September 2024, then presidential candidate Donald Trump promised: “we’re going to put a temporary cap on credit card interest rates … at around 10 percent.” Yet, today, the Bankrate Monitor National Index shows the average credit card APR at…
In a recent podcast, I talk with Robert Espinoza, the founder of The CareWorks Project, about his mission to improve the quality and delivery of long-term care. He points out that our current system was designed at a different time when care was seen as an extension of hospital care. Now, most people are receiving…