Where to start? Here’s a quick summary of interest rates over the past two plus years. Leading up to the COVID pandemic, the Federal Reserve had embarked on a slow process of lowering the Fed Funds target rate from between 2% – 3% to 1% – 2%. When the pandemic went into full swing, they […]
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The Silver Lining in Rising Interest Rates
For several years now, investors have been living in a world of historically low interest rates. For those in retirement or near retirement, that has not been the best world in terms of conservative income generation with which to live on. It also hasn’t been great for those who are contributing to regular savings accounts […]
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