In case you haven’t heard, interest rates have had a slight uptick in recent months. Please observe the up-to-date rate charts below and be amazed (and brace yourself for when your monthly mortgage payment is adjusted):
Statutory Rate
Slope of Hope Blog Posts
Slope initially began as a blog, so this is where most of the website’s content resides. Here we have tens of thousands of posts dating back over a decade. These are listed in reverse chronological order. Click on any category icon below to see posts tagged with that particular subject, or click on a word in the category cloud on the right side of the screen for more specific choices.
Inflation vs. Interest
It’s amusing how pee-wee small the rates are compared to the scorching-hot inflation (which is, oh, two to three times bigger than the governments care to admit).
Jacking Rates
High-Yield Mega-Bounce
One of the most interesting things that has happened over the past eight trading days has been the explosive move higher by the high-yield funds which, until May 18th, had been getting absolutely brutalized. Their exhaustion and descent from these zones, should it transpire, will be an important signal that the counter-trend bounce has stopped.
Rate-Based Meltdown
Trillions (literally) of dollars of value have been destroyed by the tiny increase in interest rates we’ve seen so far. Take a gander at these major funds and try to spot the trend. This is historic.
