Generally speaking, inflation occurs when the price of goods and services increase over time. For consumers, inflation is usually considered to be a bad thing, because your money will buy fewer and fewer things. If your income is growing at a rate faster than the rate of inflation then you won’t have this reduced spending power. However, many workers are finding that their incomes aren’t rising fast enough to keep up.
From a saver’ s perspective, however, inflation isn’t a bad thing. Rising interest rates go hand in hand with rising inflation, including the interest rates that are available... Articles Tagged ‘cd ladder’
Coping With Potentially Higher Inflation Rates
Generally speaking, inflation occurs when the price of goods and services increase over time. For consumers, inflation is usually considered to be a bad thing, because your money will buy fewer and fewer things. If your income is growing at a rate faster than the rate of inflation then you won’t have this reduced spending power. However, many workers are finding that their incomes aren’t rising fast enough to keep up.
From a saver’ s perspective, however, inflation isn’t a bad thing. Rising interest rates go hand in hand with rising inflation, including the interest rates that are available...
Monday, May 30th, 2011
Generally speaking, inflation occurs when the price of goods and services increase over time. For consumers, inflation is usually considered to be a bad thing, because your money will buy fewer and fewer things. If your income is growing at a rate faster than the rate of inflation then you won’t have this reduced spending power. However, many workers are finding that their incomes aren’t rising fast enough to keep up.
From a saver’ s perspective, however, inflation isn’t a bad thing. Rising interest rates go hand in hand with rising inflation, including the interest rates that are available... Using A CD Ladder for Your Emergency Money
In today’s very low interest rate environment no one should be satisfied with receiving .25% (or less) on their savings. For emergency funds and other forms of savings a CD Ladder may be the best way to both get a higher interest rate, as well as maintain the flexibility to use this money if needed.
CD Laddering simply means buying a number of CDs with different maturity dates. By purchasing shorter and longer term CDs, you spread out the interest rate risk. You don’t earn as much as you would by locking in for the long-term, but you are able to...
Thursday, June 24th, 2010
In today’s very low interest rate environment no one should be satisfied with receiving .25% (or less) on their savings. For emergency funds and other forms of savings a CD Ladder may be the best way to both get a higher interest rate, as well as maintain the flexibility to use this money if needed.
CD Laddering simply means buying a number of CDs with different maturity dates. By purchasing shorter and longer term CDs, you spread out the interest rate risk. You don’t earn as much as you would by locking in for the long-term, but you are able to... 
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