Archive for November, 2004

A money manager’s worst nightmare

Monday, November 15, 2004 at 8am
By John Friedman

In an earlier piece I talked about how many of us don’t know how much we pay our FSPs (our financial services providers). And I mentioned how this lack of knowledge came about because many of us are at our consumer-worst when it comes to FSPs and because some FSPs […]

The long and the short of it

Friday, November 12, 2004 at 10am
By John Friedman

Right now there is essentially universal agreement that interest rates are going up. And this prediction holds for long-term interest rates as well as for the typically far-more-predictable short-term interest rates. Do you know why short-term rates are typically more predictable than long-term rates? It’s because those are the rates […]

You owe it to yourself

Thursday, November 11, 2004 at 9am
By John Friedman

This blog — which I’m thinking of as the FHB — is a week old. In going back over the pieces, I see that an interesting phrase has come up more than a few times. The phrase is: you owe it to yourself Have you ever decided to follow up […]

Of basis points, beeps and bips: the atoms of interest rates

Wednesday, November 10, 2004 at 10am
By John Friedman

Today I have something short and purely educational for you. Interest rates are in the news today. Greenspan et al. are meeting, and there is unanimous agreement among the punditocracy that he will raise short term interest rates (the only interest rates over which he has much power) by 0.25%. […]

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