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Issue No. 20 · September 27, 2026
The Price of Borrowing Just Hit a Level Our Parents Remember
The cost of borrowing money for the long term rose to a level last seen in June 2007. Many of us were still in school but our parents remember it like it was yesterday.
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Issue No. 20 · September 27, 2026
The Price of Borrowing Just Hit a Level Our Parents Remember
The cost of borrowing money for the long term rose to a level last seen in June 2007. Many of us were still in school but our parents remember it like it was yesterday.
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The Business That Borrows the Thing It Lends.
Why a bank can promise instant access to your money and thirty years of certainty to a borrower at the same time, and what happens when both promises get pulled on at once.
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The Company That Gives You a Raise vs. The One That Buys You a Gift Card.
A dividend and a buyback are the same dollar of company cash, handed to you in two completely different ways: what the tax timing is worth, and how to tell a real EPS gain from an arithmetic one.
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