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The Cost of Compounding Debt on Credit Cards
Demonstrate how high interest rates and compounding finance charges rapidly increase the real cost of borrowed money.
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Financial Decision-Making, Banking, and Consumer Literacy
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Understand banking institutions, compound interest, credit costs, fair lending regulations, and the impact of advertising on economic choices.
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Learning standards covered
8.12Oregon Social Studies Standards · All agesAnalyze the roles of competition, supply, and demand in determining prices, wages, services, labor, credit, taxes, tariffs, and foreign currencies.
8.16Oregon Social Studies Standards · All agesExplain how compound interest can be both a positive and a negative (compounding interest on investments and compounding interest on credit cards).