Category Cash
Stock Market Volatility
January 20, 2016 – Stock Market Volatility “In the short run, the market is a voting machine but in the long run, it is a weighing machine.” ― Benjamin Graham In other words, there’s always a disconnect between prices and values. In the short run, markets move, sometimes hard and fast — and often very […]
I-Bonds “Real” Interest Rate Goes Back Above ZERO
I-Bonds “Real” Interest Rate Goes Back Above ZERO — for the first time since the rate was set to zero back in Nov, 2010. For the last three years, any newly purchased US Treasury Series I savings bonds – which pay interest which is a composite of a fixed “real” rate plus a variable […]
Savings Accounts
The current interest rate environment is weighing heavily on those who count on getting any kind of return on their cash and/or low-risk investments. Treasury bond yields are at historic lows, especially at the short end of the curve. That means that the most cash-like treasury securities – the ones which mature the soonest and […]