- Making the minimum payment on a $10K balance (the average balance of U.S. cardholders), at the annual interest rate of 17%, it would
take you 39 years, 7 months to pay off. You would pay $38,000 in interest alone, and a total of $41,835 for the privilege of charging
$10,000!
- 95% of all bankruptcies are due to outstanding credit card debt.
Other Statistics Items
Housing statistics and successes (Orillia Packet & Times)
Couchiching Jubilee house is all about sharing the plight of vulnerable women. Through this sharing we are able to witness the transformation that takes place when women live in a safe and nurturing environment.[...]
Italy Statistics Institute Lacks Vital Funding, Repubblica Says (Bloomberg)
July 4 (Bloomberg) -- Italy’s national statistics institute, Istat, lacks the resources to carry out planned censuses of the population and agriculture because the government won’t approve a law on funding, La Repubblica reported , citing Istat.
VITAL STATISTICS (The Columbus Dispatch)
BIRTHS This list is compiled from voluntary submissions by parents to hospitals.
(AFX UK Focus) 2009-07-04 05:58 China statistics chief sees no inflation risk this year (Interactive Investor)
BEIJING, July 4 (Reuters) - China's chief statistician said on Saturday that he saw no risk of inflation for the country in the second half of 2009, reinforcing recent comments playing down worries about credit-fuelled price rises. "I believe that in the second half of this year there are no risks of inflation in view," Ma Jiantang, the head of the National Bureau of Statistics, told a forum in ...
China statistics chief sees no inflation risk this year (The Malaysian Insider)
BEIJING, July 4 — China's chief statistician said today that he saw no risk of inflation for the country in the second half of 2009, reinforcing recent comments playing down worries about credit-fuelled price rises. "I believe that in the second half of this year there are no risks of inflation in view," Ma Jiantang, the head of the National Bureau of Statistics, told a forum in Beijing. Ma's ...
China statistics chief sees no inflation risk this year (Reuters via Yahoo! Asia News)
BEIJING, July 4 (Reuters) - China's chief statistician said on Saturday that he saw no risk of inflation for the country in the second half of 2009, reinforcing recent comments playing down worries about credit-fuelled price rises.
National statistics (Philippine Daily Inquirer)
When the National Statistics Office came out with the unemployment figures for April 2009, I was pleasantly surprised.
Statistics misleading as it included migrants: Masidi (Sabah Daily Express)
Kota Kinabalu: State Tourism, Culture and Environment Minister Datuk Masidi Manjun clarified Thursday that the statistics on tourist arrivals from the Sabah Tourism Board (STB) on Wednesday had been taken out of context.
Public entitled to doubt official crime statistics says Alan Johnson (Daily Telegraph)
The public are "entitled" to doubt official crime statistics Alan Johnson the new Home Secretary admitted yesterday.
nCircle statistics show rising Web application vulnerabilities (SearchSecurity.com)
The number of Web application vulnerabilities detected by the vendor is on track to exceed 2008, according to the latest statistics.
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