一直在想买房的首期怎么invest才好. 今天刚好看到nytimes上的这篇新文章. short-term interest rate比去年翻了4倍. 可long-term rate 根本没涨. 甚至降了. 使现在放钱到任何long-term bond之类的根本就不合算啦. 这下到省心了. 钱就放saving account 里好了.
前些时候听说long term rate 不涨的原因之一是太多外国(尤其是中国)在努力买美国债券.
不过更多的是从这篇文章中学到
Tax-free money funds are especially attractive now, Mr. Crane added, with the most generous of them returning more than 4¼ percent on a taxable-equivalent basis to a top-bracket taxpayer. Yields have "remained just tantalizingly high," he said, even for middle-bracket taxpayers. "I can't understand why they haven't been knocked down," he said. (在这方面以后几天要多看些)