Archive for August, 2007

Cash management using municipal resets instead of MMF

Wednesday, August 29th, 2007

Abstract
Many people keep their liquid holdings in the bank or in a money market fund. If you are in a high tax bracket, municipal reset bonds represent an attractive alternative vehicle in place of money market funds. The main advantage with municipal reset bonds is that typically you can get yields that are the same [...]

Bill Gross wants Feds to bailout PIMCO

Monday, August 27th, 2007

I just read a very interesting article from “Mish’s Global Economic Trend Analysis”. The article was titled Bill Gross Wants PIMCO Bailout. The background for this article was that in a recent article, Bill Gross argued that the Feds should bail out homeowners who are affecting by the financial crunch. Gross wrote
Why is it possible [...]

$10 Ebates signup bonus is on again

Tuesday, August 21st, 2007

Update 2/24/08: The following link is valid until 3/31/08:
http://www.ebates.com/refer-a-friend/bonusoffer/index.htm?id=29080946
Update 12/2/07: The new promotional link, which expires on 12/31/07, is shown below:
https://www.ebates.com/refer-a-friend/signup/holidaybonus/index.htm?id=29080946
Update 10/31/07: I just realized that there is another promotion. This one lasts until Nov 15, 2007. The link remains the same.
I last wrote about the Ebates promotion in Feb 2007. The promotion for [...]