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May 2009

May 14, 2009

Annual percentage rate (APR)

The Annual Percentage Rate (APR) was created with good intentions to make complicated things if not simple, then at least simpler. It even works in many cases! Unfortunately, it also fails in just as many other cases, which sort of devaluates it as a universally reliable tool. The APR looks a lot like an interest [...]