Recent posts tagged ‘interest rates’

Monetary policy’s sacrificial lambs

By on July 12, 2011 1:26 pm

A few months ago, my wife and I opened a small savings account for our young children to help teach them the power of saving. Compound interest. All that good stuff.

We talked about taking their pennies, dimes, and birthday checks from family and friends and depositing them down at the local savings institution. It’s always neat to see the coin machine sort all those round pieces of metal in a fraction of the time it used to take me to put them into paper rolls. (There used to be some long rainy days growing up.)

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Interest rates: a worry for 2010

By on January 29, 2010 9:06 am

It’s still early in the new year, and there’s lots to worry about in the investment domain and in the broader world. But one item tops my “worry list” for 2010: interest rates. And it’s hard to decide which is the greater worry—the status quo, or a change in it.

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