Credit Card Interest Rate Ceiling and Disclosure: Hearing Before the Subcommittee on Consumer Affairs and Coinage of the Committee on Banking, Finance, and Urban Affairs, House of Representatives, One-hundredth Congress, First Session, on H.R. 78; H.R. 244; H.R. 515; H.R. 1086; and H.R. 1584, March 18, 1987

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Page 18 - Where one or more periodic rates may be used to compute the finance charge, each such rate, the range of balances to which it is applicable, and the corresponding annual percentage rate determined by multiplying the periodic rate by the number of periods in a year.
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Page 33 - ... at this time I would like to recognize the ranking minority member of the Readiness Subcommittee, Mr.
Page 94 - Consummation" means the time that a consumer becomes contractually obligated on a credit transaction. (14) "Credit" means the right to defer payment of debt or to incur debt and defer its payment. (15) "Credit card...
Page 172 - ... individual credit card usage , proposals to disclose the essential cost components of a credit card are far preferable to proposals which would impose restrictions on a creditor's ability to price credit services. Examples of such restrictions are federal interest rate caps and mandated balance calculation methods.
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Page 15 - ... Certain acquisitions by residents not 8 citizens. — Of stock or debt obligations by an individual 9 who is a resident but not a citizen of the United States, 10 during the 90-day period beginning on the date such 11 individual first became a resident of the United States." 12 (2) Section 4914 (j) (2) is amended by adding at 13 the end thereof the following new sentence: "For pur14 poses of this chapter, if, after February 27, 1967, a 15 United States person sells or otherwise disposes of stock...

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