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Loan Officer

What is this job like? Loan officers help people apply for loans. This lets people do things like buy a house or a car, or pay for college. Loan officers help businesses by loaning them money…

loan

(Encyclopedia) loan, in business, sum of money borrowed at a particular interest rate. More generally, it refers to anything given on condition of its return or repayment of its equivalent. A loan…

interest

(Encyclopedia) interest, charge for the use of credit or money, usually figured as a percentage of the principal and computed annually. Simple interest is computed annually on the principal. Compound…

Farm Credit Administration

(Encyclopedia) Farm Credit Administration (FCA), an independent agency of the executive branch of the federal government that supervises and regulates the Farm Credit System (FCS) for American…

To Buy—Aye, There's the Rub

To Buy or Not To Buy, That Is the Question With all the advertisements for snazzy new cars and low monthly payments, it is becoming increasingly difficult to resist the siren call beckoning us to…

magnetic levitation

(Encyclopedia) magnetic levitation or maglevmaglevmăgˈlĕv [key], support and often propulsion of objects or vehicles by the use of magnets. The magnets used in magnetic levitation suspend an object…

rent

(Encyclopedia) rent, in law, periodic payment by a tenant for the use of another's property. In economics, its meaning is more complex, but since the word rent means any income or yield from an…

discount

(Encyclopedia) discount, in banking and investment, fee for lending money, which the banker deducts from the loan when it is given. Thus, with a $1,000 loan at a 6% discount, the borrower receives $…

The Low Down

Director/Writer:Jamie ThravesShooting Gallery; NR; 96 minutesRelease:4/01Cast:Aidan Gillen, Kate Ashfield, Dean Lennox Kelly The period of drift between college and adulthood is a bumpy time…