With all the talk about, and around, Interest Rates, “the Fed,” Rate Inversion, and the bizarre notion of Negative Interest Rates, it’s appropriate to devote much of this newsletter to the topic.
So Why all the Interest in Interest Rates? Put simply, the rate of interest is the cost of using someone else's money, or someone else using your money. So, when it comes to interest rates, you can be pulled in opposite directions - often at the same time!