http://www.experiglot.com/2006/07/12/interest-rates-have-been-on-the-rise-so-check-those-student-loans/ Because you shouldn't need an MBA to be savvy about finance and business Thu, 09 Feb 2012 01:13:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=abc http://www.experiglot.com/2006/07/12/interest-rates-have-been-on-the-rise-so-check-those-student-loans/comment-page-1/#comment-1205 This week’s carnival roundup | Experiments in Finance Wed, 26 Jul 2006 16:48:11 +0000 http://www.experiglot.com/2006/07/12/interest-rates-have-been-on-the-rise-so-check-those-student-loans/#comment-1205 [...] First off, this week’s Carnival of Personal Finance illustrates exactly why it pays to read different opinions. I submitted a post about how we’d decided to pay off a private student loan due to rising interest rates (to a tune of 7% from Citibank), but another submission illustrates a concrete example of why you might not want to if you’ve got federal loans at less than 3%. I think we’re saying the same thing; unfortunately, federal loans just weren’t available to us in our case. [...] [...] First off, this week’s Carnival of Personal Finance illustrates exactly why it pays to read different opinions. I submitted a post about how we’d decided to pay off a private student loan due to rising interest rates (to a tune of 7% from Citibank), but another submission illustrates a concrete example of why you might not want to if you’ve got federal loans at less than 3%. I think we’re saying the same thing; unfortunately, federal loans just weren’t available to us in our case. [...]

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