Five years ago (and earlier) the Federal Reserve was using quantitative easing ("financial repression") to hold interest rates very close…
Since I write about TIPS and follow them closely, I am always going to prefer TIPS over a nominal Treasury,…
It's certainly fair to assess recent (and even not so recent!) fiscal policy as "irresponsible"; But David uses the term…
David, what concerns me most is the doubling of the debt from 20t to 40t so quickly. If the endgame…
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PenFed’s new 1-year CD shows the screwed-up state of interest rates
I am a customer of the Pentagon Federal Credit Union, also known as PenFed, and I jumped happily aboard when it offered an above-market 3% 5-year CD in December 2013 and January 2014. But since then its CD rates have … Continue reading
Wait, it turns out that ticking off all of your potential lenders when you need to borrow constantly is potentially…