Interest rates cut in the housing crisis will start to rise again this year.

Kai talks with Felix Salmon from Reuters and Catherine Rampell of the Washinton Post about the week's biggest economic news.

…not to mention the Federal Reserve and treasury yields.

The Fed is testing out new tools to fight inflation that may be coming down the road.

There's a financial cost to mortgages that stay at the same interest rate for 30 years, but there are also social benefits.

Lending money for 30 years at a fixed interest rate isn't attractive to banks. So how did 30-year fixed-rate mortgages come to be the standard?

The compromise approved by the Senate puts a ceiling on the interest rates for undergraduate student loans.

As Wells Fargo and JPMorgan Chase kick off bank earnings season, it's a chance to see the effect rising interest rates are having on our nation's banks.

The yield on the 10-year Treasury note — the benchmark for U.S. interest rates — was up this morning following Friday's somewhat positive jobs report.