Interest Rates Explained

Interest rates are a significant part of your financial life. In its simplest terms – interest is the price you pay to borrow money. At some point, most of us will find ourselves paying interest on a student loan, car loan, mortgage, or credit card. When you borrow money, you will have to pay back the amount you borrowed plus a percentage of the amount borrowed which is the interest.
Unfortunately, we have little control over the interest rates available to us as they are largely a product of economic factors such as money supply, the inflation rate, and the Bank of Canada’s monetary policy.