Should I pay off my student loans?

Sunday, December 13th, 2009

This is a tough question that  I’ve been pondering ever since I graduated from undergrad in 2000.  On the one hand, student loans give you the best interest rates by far.  My student interest rates were only 3.5% and I was pretty sure I could do better than that with other investments elsewhere so I [...]

Money market funds make banks rich

Tuesday, February 17th, 2009

If anyone still has some degree of faith in the United States banking system, you should consider reconsidering after the various bailout packages of the past several months.  It’s no secret that these bailouts are going to increase the rate of inflation considerable.  In 2007, the inflation rate was 2.85%, in 2008 it was 3.85%.  [...]