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Strategies & Market Trends : The Epic American Credit and Bond Bubble Laboratory
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To: russwinter who wrote (11562)4/12/2004 12:50:59 PM
From: Mike McFarland  Read Replies (1) of 110194
 
59 of 60 economists in a Wall Street
Journal poll expect interest rates to be higher at the end
of 2004 than at the beginning

I would not bet against that.

I'd buy ten year bonds and hold them to
maturity if they paid around 6%. I know
then ten year treasury is 4 1/4%, so we
have quite a way to go. The Treasury dept
has made it easy to buy bonds
publicdebt.treas.gov

Unfortunately...for EE bonds:
The rate is 90 percent of the average 5-year Treasury securities yields for the preceding six months

2.61%

Is it any wonder that Americans piss it all away?

But I don't want to be a hypocrite here, so I'll
come clean. I intend to put my daughters through
private school, so that will wipe out my savings
in less than five years. It's a free country, nobody
has to have a savings account or a pile of EE bonds.
Spend it!
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