Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. She writes about strategic financial issues in higher education. Beyond the average tuition discount rate, schools are providing ...

The share of mortgage borrowers paying discount points doubled from 2021 through 2023, with the increase larger among consumers with lower credit scores, a Consumer Financial Protection Bureau study ...

The average discount rate at private colleges topped 50 percent this past academic year, according to a new study from the National Association of College and University Business Officers (NACUBO).

Tuition discounting is a tactic private colleges have long used to control a primary revenue stream. But over the past decade, an increasingly precarious financial picture—driven in part by stagnating ...

The cost of capital and the discount rate are two related terms that are sometimes confused with each other. But they have important distinctions that make them both useful in deciding whether a new ...

We show that firms' nominal required returns to capital (i.e., their discount rates) are sticky with respect to expected inflation. Such nominally sticky discount rates imply that increases in ...

Aug 27 (Reuters) - Members of the boards of directors overseeing the Chicago and New York Federal Reserve banks voted in favor of lowering by a quarter percentage point the central bank’s discount ...

Our family of four is buying a house in Austin, Texas, in 2024. Despite enticing alternatives, a fixed-rate mortgage remains the best option for us. Alternative mortgages are getting more popular but ...