The overnight rate had been averaging about 6.75 percent since May.
They averaged about 3 percent above 1986 results, well below the current level of inflation.
Interest rates on the loans average about 3 1/8 percent and would be subject to Federal income tax.
They average about 50 percent, although some are near 80 percent.
Growth has averaged about 30 percent a year since the company was founded.
Between 1947 and 1964, America's inflation rate averaged about 1.5 percent a year.
For the last three decades the real Federal funds rate has averaged about 2 percent.
Economic growth has averaged about 2 percent over the last six months.
Suits against those companies had averaged about 8 percent of cases in years past, according to the study.
He said the college's minority population has averaged about 10 percent of its 6,000 students.