Average
debt balances tend to be lower in southern states, where the cost of living is lower.
Not exact matches
Another reason is that women
tend to be more conservative in running their businesses, so you see generally stronger
balance sheets with more personal equity and less
debt than in businesses owned by men.
Most people
tend to overdo their spending and then end up with a high
balance and an interest rate that makes it difficult to deal with the
debts.
Most people say you should pay your highest interest
balance first, but Ramsey said that people
tend to pay off their
debt faster with the snowball method.
Credit cards are revolving
debt, and they
tend to have a lot of variation in their
balances.
Today, large
balance borrowers are increasingly likely to be parents and independent undergraduate borrowers — the government places lower limits on the loans that undergraduate borrowers who are dependents can take — whose economic outlook
tends to be riskier and whose rising
debts consume a larger share of their income.
In trying to find example data to test the app part of the blog post, I found that for most people, the
debt with the smallest
balance tends to have the highest interest anyway, so there isn't much difference between the two.
Assets that are hybrid between equity and
debt tend not to offer much diversification to a
balanced core portfolio, so junk bonds, convertible bonds, and preferred stock do not offer much of a diversification advantage.
If you
tend to carry a
balance, you'll end up going deeper into
debt and paying a higher rate of interest than a regular credit card.
The data can be used to distinguish between borrowers who are «transactors» and
tend to pay off their
debt, or at least more than the minimum due, and «revolvers,» who maintain higher
balances.
The data showed whether the applicant
tended to carry credit card
balances, paid just the minimum, or lowered his overall
debt month by month.
These companies
tend to have very little
debt and strong
balance sheets, They
tend to be small - caps, often companies most of you haven't heard of.
«Revolving
balances (e.g., credit and retail cards)
tend to carry more weight than installment
debt (e.g., mortgage, auto and student loans) when amounts owed are considered,» Paperno said.
As ever I
tend to take a
balanced approach and overpay my mortgage
debt while at the same time investing elsewhere.
Credit counselors
tend to not provide
balanced advice and think poorly about solutions like
debt settlement and bankruptcy.