Here’s how the central bank’s interest rate stance influences car loans, credit cards, mortgages, savings and student loans.

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To answer simply, a 10 percent cap on credit card interest rates is possible. Whether this bill (or any other bill for that matter) has any fighting chance, however, is a different matter.

That's less than half the going rate for new cards as well as existing ones.

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