Understanding the latest trends in student loan interest rates.

Hourly billing rates at elite U.S. law firms have reached a historic milestone, with top litigators now charging up to $4,000 ...

Trump called for a one-year cap on credit card interest rates at 10%. For years, limited regulation has allowed companies to charge high rates, and consumers have fallen further into debt. Some ...

President Donald Trump said that credit-card lenders would be “in violation of the law” if they don’t heed his call to cap interest rates at 10% for one year. Trump, speaking Sunday to reporters on ...

No law dictating a 10% interest rate cap is on the books, and passing one through both chambers in just over a week would be a major challenge. An effort to impose an executive order on private-sector ...

Louisiana's largest auto insurers, State Farm and Progressive, are lowering their rates for drivers. Progressive's two subsidiaries will decrease rates by an average of 6.6% and 4% for nearly 500,000 ...

Abstract: This paper presents an adaptive rate reaching law based sliding mode control method for a three-phase F-type converter. Unlike the existing reaching laws in which the gain is always constant ...

New laws in Louisiana that took effect on Jan. 1, 2026, aim to lower the state's high auto insurance rates. In 2025, Louisiana drivers paid the highest average auto insurance premiums in the United ...

Social Security’s 2.8% COLA for 2026 may not keep pace with inflation if tariffs drive costs higher. COLAs are based on worker spending patterns rather than retiree spending, leading to insufficient ...

Major law firms have been raising prices at double-digit rates. Latham & Watkins has said its top billing rate will exceed $3,000 an hour in 2026. Higher billing rates have been the crucial driver of ...

To the editor: Australian political leaders don’t get it (“Australia to tighten gun laws after Bondi Beach Hanukkah massacre,” Dec. 15). In response to the attack on a Jewish celebration at Bondi ...