Cautious retirees should look to US Treasury notesKenneth Hooker
The government sets federal student loan interest rates for the upcoming school year based on the high yield of the 10-year Treasury note auction each May, plus an additional percentage that varies depending on the loan type and whether the loan is made to an underg...
Aversano offers practical advice for seniors who may already own precious metals: "If you have gold items [including] coins, jewelry or bars tucked away, get them valued." In today's market, "many people are finding they're worth more than they thought," he notes. Timing also plays a ...
Treasury — which we have never had to do. We are aiming to get our reserve fund to $5 billion. If I have a problem with my brokerage, do I call you? No. You should call your firm. Then escalate it to a regulator. The SEC and FINRA have online complaint forms that are easy to...
Don’t credit MicroStrategy’s legacy software business, which lost $18.5 million in the third quarter. Instead, look to the “shareholder value that MSTR has been creating through its treasury operations, i.e., its repeated tapping of the capital markets to raise proceeds to fuel the addition...
What is the federal reserve function of buying and selling government securities, which include treasury bonds, notes, and bills? Based on the current state of the U.S. economy, what should the Federal Reserve do with the federal funds rate? Justify your answer. Which of...
Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen said Tuesday that the federal government could step in to protect depositors at additional banks if regulators see a risk of a run on the banking system. Ms. Yellen delivered remarks at a gathering of the American Bankers Association in Washington as she and other...
Joseph Wang, of the “Money on Macro” blog, put this to me most simply: when the Treasury issues a bond or bill to cover a deficit, it is creating money, or something very much like money. If I buy the bond, my net worth is unchanged, and the government now has cash that it ...
The government’s crypto ambitions were also temporarily upended last year when the Treasury select committee — a powerful cross-party group of MPs — called for the crypto sector to beregulated as gambling, rather than as a traditional financial service. ...
such as bank certificates of deposit (CDs) and U.S. Treasury bills, they tend to have low rates of return that rarely exceed the interest rates charged by credit