Tag: financial-speak

On Shelter Comings and Goings, and Refinancings: The Certainty of Uncertainty

One week off from writing, and I felt at a loss for a topic, until listening to Dave Ramsey on the radio this morning and then . . . I listened to Dave answer an emailed question along the lines of, “Dave, I can re-fi my mortgage, which is at 5.125%, […]

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

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%. […]