rising up against it, and i, i think you'll see new leadership emerge in these governments in europe. that will not only throw out if not hang mcroy on and schoultz for crimes. but you will see the new regimes of new leaders in, in europe over the next year, or more, re, uh, connect with russia life to chronicle son, reconnecting with the product old father story. scott, the french defense minister has said france, which should be persistent. and it's helped to ukraine, underlining that it's a good opportunity, both for the french army and industrial economy. with that in mind, what do you think the chances are the west will be willing to bring about a swift end to the conflict? i, you know, sadly i don't think the current leadership in the, the european union, brussels, nato american establishment are going to try and bring an end to this because of bringing in into it will only quicken their own political demise and punishment.

that's what they think, that's why netanyahu, for example, realizes he has to keep this ward going. otherwise, he will be prosecuted in the home for crimes and his real unrelated to the crimes against humanity that he's doing. i think the same logic applies to these british nato political leaders from a cron to sholtes to, to or verse re shack and others. forrest johnson and the list trust and binding. they're all in the dock. but they realize that if they're only a chance of hope is to turn a trigger on world war 3 that they think that they can and that they're timing. and that's another miscalculation. so i don't think there's going to be a swift and i think they're going to blow themselves up and rush is just going to sit back and say, i told you so. all right, former us army officers got bennet's. got thank you to all right, that's gonna do it for me for now, but just stay with us. i'll be back in another 30 minutes with lawrence news

the we often see your credit cards as convenient financial tours, allowing us to make purchases and manage our expenses. however, it is crucial to recognize that credit card that comes with the cost a cost that goes beyond the simple swipe of the card. i'm christy, and today we're going to be talking about something that effects millions of people around the world. the cost of credit card debt and how to manage it wisely. the americans total kind of car balance is one point. oh, $8.00 trillion dollars in the 3rd quarter of 2023. and now that is a record high. and the 2nd consecutive quarter in which americans credit card

balance has top one trillion dollars and things to record interest rates, stop and inflation and a myriad of other economic factors. credit card balances are likely to only climb higher in the near future. most people with an active credit card don't always pay their bills in full, on average, only 35 percent of card holder say they always pay their credit card balance in full every month was 65 percent of them say they carry a balance at least some of the time, nearly half of those card holders who have cards would say that it takes them at least a year to pay it off for a while. you don't pay down the full amount due by the credit card statements. due dates, you're essentially borrowing money from the credit card companies, and this comes with a price. one of the most significant factors contributing to the cost of credit card debt is the interest rates. credit cards typically have higher interest rates

compared to other forms of credit, such as loans or mortgages. this means that if you carry a balance, you're not just paying the principal amount. you're also paying interest on that balance. for all credit cards, the average a p r is around 21.19 percent for new credit card offers. the average today is 24.56 percent credit card interest is often compounded, which means that your not just pay interest on the initial borrowed amount, but also on the accumulated interest. and this compounding can effectively can significantly increase the total amount to you owe over time. credit card companies typically set a minimum payment requirement, which is often a small percentage of the total balance. and while this may seem manageable, making only the minimum payments can keep you in debt for an extended period of time, leading to higher overall costs. beyond the monetary costs,

credit card debt can have a profound impact on your overall financial health. high levels of debt can affect your credit score, making it more challenging to secure, favorable loan term for significant purchases like a home or a car. and now today we're joined by bubble whore was chief market strategist above the trading. com. thank you so much for joining us today. my pleasure, right. to be sure. absolutely. so by the why do credit cards often have higher interest rates compared to say other types of loans? as well as far as typically credit card gap is meant to be paid off and most don't buy it. and so they use the lot of the legislation thing, some a credit card debt or credit card interest rates much, much higher. in fact, you can compare and just write down credit cards to use or rearrange which the all long charge use use. and since a lot of us were able to pass the law that you cannot bankrupt on a credit card,

you're really at the mercy. and of course, they advertise credit cards. so those are really channel for them. and they allow the goal of these massive amounts of debt, which they can never really pay off. because once you get so deep and it's hard to pay off that balance, especially when you're trying to pay the minimum rate because you never can overcome the interest rate, it's almost like negative finance. and now what are the potential consequences of carrying a high balance on our credit card over an extended period of time? well, i mean, 1st of all, it makes it hard to buy anything else, right? your credit is kind of locked up and tied up to reduce your overall credit score, which is one of the things that allows the outcome of the company is the, the 3 major credit bureaus. they give you our credit score, your store continues to fall, then if you are able to get a loan from somebody else, that rate is going to be at a much higher rate. and for example, my rate might be like my. busy might be 5 percent, you're getting storage higher might be 7 percent. which of those are the lot of

a 2 percent is a huge amount of money over a period of time. and now how can only making the minimum payments affect the total cost and the total duration of credit card that as well. i mean, for example, if you, if you all are the low limit on your credit card and you pay the minimum, it would take you almost 30 years to pay off the stuff that total that because basically when you're paying just a minimum, you're really only paying the finance charge if you're paying that much. and so basically you put yourself in a position to be destroyed by credit card yet because it makes everything else costs much more and you don't get the use of that product anymore. so you re sign up and get that to be yours. oh, you don't get a chance to reuse again. so you defeated the purpose of buying the money in the 1st place. so now can consumers actually negotiate with credit card companies to lower their interest rates? they do negotiate, i mean, typically most credit card companies don't negotiate with anybody until they

realize that they may not get paid or the extent of the delay in payment. so they'll, they'll re stretch the payment out. they're not going to change much. they're not gonna change most of the interest rate because of pretty much those pre determined by your credit score and by what the going rate like in a tenure notice because tenure notes are the, the major benchmark that everything is used to be the, the, the side a lending amount or lending rate. so, but they will negotiate your duties and debt because what does the credit card or do they just want to get paid? and basically, credit cards are actually in effect putting money into the system because people are borrowing very similar to the, for actual banking. your general banking, that's really kind of what you're doing. you're borrowing money that really doesn't exist to buy a debt. and it gets to be a big mess, dr. time. and now from a behavioral finance perspective. why do individuals sometimes under estimate the cost of credit card debt of all of the i'm are estimating. i think

a lot of people going to exec getting that they'll make the payment. of course life happens and somebody else comes do. and they've got to make the payment. i don't think did one charge strongly get themselves so deep in debt that they can never get out. i just think that they allow themselves, you know, it's like if you go back a number of years that you solve that 90 day saying this cash. and then the small, fine print was, well, if you don't pay a 90 days, you're going to get this entered right. it's going to be ridiculously high rates and it's going to go back to day one. so you're paying interest from day one of the time you don't get purchased. and many people, you know, the, the, the, the shiny objects in this world. we say that the stuff that we want to get from the silver ball. and there's a lot of heavy advertising, and of course i, i, bull intentions are going to be able to make that payment and then i don't have the money. so i put that belt to the side. and now on. busy the interest rates on that loan or gave you set that i'll pay $10.00. what that these actually costs me,

but i just paid cash for i know whose fault is that the consumer or the, the credit card companies for advertising, something that they know that people can't even pay for or afford. oh, that's a great question. i mean, you can talk about funding, it's already advertising. i mean, who are they really advertising to their advertising to the people that really can't afford it and they're making product available to people that might not be able to do good deal with it. so i think that's a great question. i don't have the exact answer because again, the offering a product, a lender is a theme alone can a really get forwarded. that's the question. and i think that's more irresponsible on the consumer. but yes, the right front of our company are definitely doing much of predatory lending, you know, advertising to entice you to come in and buy that product. and how can other psychological factors influence, spend the habits in that accumulation?

well, i mean yes, and we all want to keep up with the jones's. we all want it, but we all want to buy things. we all want to have nice things and our homes are in our apartments and we want that new car, whatever it happens to be, we want to buy it and we want it, you know, we're in a society of instant gratification. that's one of the big issues that we, we deal with here and people want it now and knowing that they can borrow that money. and what again, what's the adoption, i think of buying it back on time, but of course most don't. and that's what we have the credit card, right levels that record yet. but again, it's, it's a system that we've created here of spoiled people that don't understand the real meaning of a hard earned dollar and actually go into work. and that becomes the bigger problem because we make money in credit to easy for everybody. yes. but are there other situations where it's advisable for individuals to use credit cards, even if they have the means to pay and gosh, i was using drugs that i use them all the time,

but i pay them back. i've never had a finance charge and a credit card in my life. so yes, it's great to use it because it helps build your credit score. it helps make it easier to buy that home. you might want to buy some days. you don't have one. it builds a credit as far as your billing it history. okay, and good credit. you know, certainly here probably there's nothing wrong with it. usually i tell you responsibly. there is something fundamentally wrong with that and, and buying things that you know, that you're probably getting paid for. because remember, emergencies happen. you know, suddenly the foreigners branch and use your credit card to pay for the punishment, you know, remember having to pay back and do people get learned by credit card awards like points or cash back? or these perks kind of like a secondary thought. i think that's more secondary. i think that's a pop edition within the credit card industry of getting the consumer to sign up with that. i don't think it can. summer says, you know, they want to credit card and know if they get it. they've told me get anyone to

look at it, but then once they establish credit, then they will look to where they get the best deal. but i don't think anybody spending extra money because they're getting x amount of reward. i think that's just an entire something that's more of a marketing gimmick. and between the 2 companies you can try to get you to buy or to use their credit card and sign up in a bar. somebody companies have these, you know, to even get the car, you know, some of that higher level charge. yeah. there's a $3.00 and $4.00 and $500.00 your annual charges just to have the right to use that for. and some say the merchants or department stores benefit when customers get the store credit card since it's so easy to open when you're new to credit cards. so is it true? is that a trap? well, i mean, as i believe any credit is a traffic you cannot pay for or do you don't have intentions of paying for would certainly be, but the star, the merchant, you remember they've now eliminated a lot of the fees that they would pay out to another company, the animals fees,

we've got to keep the interest rate and they get to keep the money and they're charging extremely higher rates as well. and certainly they, they, they allow much easier sending and don't watch already as much. so again, if you're going into a department store and getting their credit card, that is real dangerous because every time you go into a walmart or a share, my officers especially marvelous, oh my right of those major stores. i mean, they're basically counting your money. that's not going to be taking away from you either to interest or if you're standing in the star boat. thank you so much by the please stick around the bible. harlots will stay with us right here after the break . and when we come back, we will discuss what countries use credit cards the most and how it effects their economies. so don't go away. the

almost every develop an emerging country uses credit cards these days. but credit card penetration very significantly between countries. according to the world bank, canada is real in iceland where the only countries and which credit card ownership is higher than 74 percent. to compare countries such as bangladesh and morocco have a credit card penetration of around one percent in 2021. meanwhile, in china, it's credit card business has been growing rapidly, playing a key role in facilitating payments and consumption. chinese banks have issued a total of 800 1000000 credit cards as of the end of 2021, with outstanding loans, totaling 1.29 trillion dollars. roughly one percent of the loans are overdue for 6

months or longer. because of the rapid growth china had to unveil title rules to rain and, and better regulate it's $1.00 trillion dollar industry, so that lenders can monitor risks more closely. these new rules also require banks to tighten scrutiny or credit car loans and strength and risk management controls. while china's total credit card debt is higher than that of the us is the us still has the highest media and credit card debt of $5910.00. this is followed by japan at $2900.00. the u. k. a $2316.00 germany at 2052 and canada at $1604.00. meanwhile, india has the lowest media and credit card debt at nearly $302.00. but that said, it is difficult to compare credit card use in other countries as the cost of living

varies greatly. the cost of living in india is 81 percent less expensive than that of the us. so it makes sense that their median usage is also lower. unfortunately in the us, prices are rising faster than incomes. median household income has grown just 4 percent, while the overall cost of living has jumped 8 percent. and while the rise of fin tech has been rate for convenience, it has created some nasty habits and consumption patterns, or people are encouraged to buy now. pay later to this mentality has created deeper debt for millions as close to one and 5 americans say they have used one of these b, n p l services in the past 12 months. in contrast, these b, n p o users don't have interest fees, but can incur late fees for missed or late payments. so this can result in charges that exceed typical credit card interest rates, causing more harm than

a simple interest payment. especially when it comes to gen, the credit card debt is increasing and it's falling behind on payments faster than any other generation. so for this and more, let's bring it again by the horwitz. so now by law, how do a spending pad is very across different regions globally, and what factors contribute to these variations as well as the factors you look at is again, if you're more established, obviously you're more concerned objectively. and you're going to be more careful and you probably make enough money to go ahead and satisfy that. whereas when you get to some of the people that aren't working, some of the younger people that are not using those credit cards, either for enjoyment or for actual expenses. you know, you, they're, they're much more pretty, you know, the whole society, the whole, the whole generation is all built on technology. both on of the i pay or apple pie and the different types of the brands, which are all linked to credit cards. and of course, are so easy to use. those are usually i'm and don't realize how much you're

spending. you know, if you go back to my generation, you had a credit card to get cash in your pocket as well. they didn't have the cash or bucket you wouldn't make the purchase. now everything is they made everything. so streamlined, so easy for someone to buy something that just show me right. i'm just plugging it against the button, right? everything is easy to tap and go. and this is where the problem is coming because it's easy to stand, just like it's easy to lose money. and i guess, you know, because you don't realize when you're just dealing with chips of how does a different generation span compared to the millennials or gen z as well. i think most of the people of, of mild and minor are very conservative and we'll look to span where they can. and of course, the built up, you know, from working all of our lives, money to that, that's for, for enjoyment, money that's for our budget. and, you know, we actually have to take care of our homes and our families and you know, the younger people, they don't necessarily care about that, you know,

money and living at home. so they, they feel free to spend more immerses, putting in a way i think that the more we create the ability for them to spend and not have to really work for a living. the more we make life easier. just for example, waving college data or trying to wave challenges yet, is a problem because it makes the ability to think that the debt is not real, don't have to pay it and some plans that that might get really, which is not the way to be thinking need to be a 4th a yeah. how does that get yourself in a position to pay and now why is cash the king in certain businesses and countries instead of spending money using credit cards? well, i'll make josh as long as jang for a couple of reasons. a, if you are trying to sneak past the russell over even both cash in your pocket, you know, restaurants are notorious for, for not declaring sales and, and of course summers who get chips you have. in fact, they've gone to the point in our servers attached ahead of time on what they're

just shouldn't be you. but you know cash jan be jamie, but as a leaves, you flush a model where you can spend it. but it also tells you what you have. and again, there it is in many countries, it may help you in a little over the tax laws because you're not declaring your environment. now are there specific countries or regions that stand out in terms of have a higher levels of credit card debt? and why might this be the case as well? i don't know if there's any more just enters here in the united states. yeah. me, we are in a mass of them from our government spending to our credit cards, funding. never in history. have we been at this point in color and then the money is the dollar amount is not important because inflation numbers change. but i mean, there's never been a time in history where there's so many people were at least at the limit on one credit card. okay. and i don't think there's any more right, was spending then there is right here in united states on there. and how do i, how can i make factors such as g d, p inflation and interest rates,

influence credit card usage and debt levels on a global scale? i don't think they have any effect whatsoever. i, i think actually most people, they don't even look at those numbers, they hear him. but when you go to the store, when i go to the store and i are the see guy number sleepers, i know that i'm paying 20 percent more for groceries. it has no effect on me. i but i'm in the business. i understand that the numbers that they're reporting are not correct. but on the average person ever even cares about what that number is, nor realizes, they know when they go, they're gonna buy what they want, whatever it cost. i mean, look at, look at the chain of starbucks. i mean, how often do you think you see people bank $6.00 for a cup of coffee? like it was not like it was free and not even thinking about the ramifications of how much you're actually spending adding best. the bigger issue, there's nobody looks at the bigger picture, nor they can because that's the cost. that's why i'm paying, i got a credit card. let me use that my apple phone there and take care of it. and i'm all the and now are there instances where economic downturns have led to

a significant change in credit cards, funding behavior? or why is that give we get a big economic downtime and, and things get recognisably, ugly. i mean, i would say recognize every now but the average consumers that are affecting them right now, they're still able to borrow money to pay their minimum to their minimum payments. if we get, you know, job layoffs, we get a real recession or real depression or something like that, that will weigh solve the spending, but it will not delete the depth and has already been created. then of course, that will be a hardship for those who are not working. they have these payments building up and up and up because again, the interest rate does not stop because the economy slowing down. now in emerging markets, how does the adoption of credit cards influence spending habits and data accumulation? well, i mean, emerging market, you're trying to build a business, people are having money. you know, basically for the 1st time or have the opportunity just to have this, this funding and having some freedom to go out to a store and spend. and again,

i think that's a great place to be. it when you, when you have an opportunity, you haven't had it in the past, you know, again what you're coming out of, you know, the dark ages into a real city or a real society. and i think that's a great part of it. but i think that was still the education system globally does not teach people that, that is real and that has to be paid back. and then if you, if you let it get too far away, you know, people think about investing in their irish and borrow engaged. but they have a 12 percent or 20 percent rate on their credit card. and there are rolling here. i'm drawing a rich 6 percent. it's not a very good trade when you look at the bigger picture and people are looking at that way. and that's a sad situation. but hopefully in the emerging markets, they'll educate them and say, hey, this is a, this is a tool that you use when you go to buy something and you have to be prepared to pay it off. and you have to understand that the interest rate that you're paying here

is pretty high. a yes, and how does a credit card done differ between developed nations and developing nations? wiring and development is much harder to probably get credit. okay. because they don't have the same history, the same, the same, the same work history and other things to go along with that, with a new autonomy or a new country. but in, in developed nations, you know, that we've already established that mac and, you know, they, they've already have, is wonderful working models for, for the companies they can do to entice dollars to spend more. and of course then more they have to lock them up. and that, and that's what we are one of the big stores in the company was you want your employees to get and that's what they have to work for. and now with the rise of visual payments and fintech solution, how does the landscape of credit card debt change was all who get worse? because again, the easy. you may have to spend those dollars of the age of 5 to reach in my pocket,

even though i can just put it on my phone. or i can just, you know, do something else that makes it very easy to make it for people to spend money. but more money they're gonna stop, and i think that's a better problem that is going to be developed here and do genuine to get worse. which is one of the reasons that we see so much debt among the, the gen zeros is because of course the debt is so easy to accumulate without, without hardly even making them. oh, right. you have to go in a lot of stores have gone to apple pay all, you know, a lot of places. i'd rather, i don't have a way myself so you can buy from that. you guys are apple barely, but they're advertising that market. they want to come in down to spend their money and they want to accumulate that interest rate to be. that's just another profit center for the long. and now after someone accumulates so much that are there ways to get out of it, or how can people get out of debt as well? the already got done is by paying it off. i mean, this is one of the lobbyist really did a number on the,

on the to silver because they got time were so pass laws that the credit card debt does not discharge them all by right. right. so they're either gonna have to pay, or they're going to be in legal trouble and fighting legal bills. and that is something that is, you know, that we've been used to be, but you know, number of years ago, the lobbyist and the best time was to vote to not to my credit card debt did not discharge of all by bankruptcy. so that becomes a much bigger problem because of course, that puts you in debt or, and, and, and others present for absolutely. that's the unfortunate reality. thank you so much by the horse for all your time today. well, credit cards offer convenience. it's essential to recognize the potential costs associated with credit card debt. there are winners and losers when it comes to finance and credit card companies want to keep you in debt for as long as possible, so they can continue to make money off of interest payments. so even though it is convenient credit card debt can turn you into

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