A change in strategy.

I have decided to try to do daily posts of news articles that people may find interesting. So let's start it up!

People always ask me how scared everyone out there is and this seems to be the best way to track how scared people are:

Treasury Yield Curve

November 2008

Date	1 mo	3 mo	6 mo	1 yr	2 yr	3 yr	5 yr	7 yr	10 yr	20 yr	30 yr
11/03/08	0.20	0.49	1.07	1.31	1.45	1.69	2.71	3.21	3.96	4.73	4.33
11/04/08	0.29	0.48	1.03	1.28	1.39	1.59	2.56	3.06	3.81	4.58	4.20
11/05/08	0.16	0.40	0.90	1.22	1.36	1.64	2.50	2.99	3.73	4.49	4.13
11/06/08	0.13	0.32	0.83	1.17	1.28	1.63	2.46	3.01	3.75	4.52	4.19
11/07/08	0.13	0.31	0.83	1.20	1.33	1.71	2.56	3.11	3.83	4.57	4.25
11/10/08	0.11	0.29	0.91	1.16	1.27	1.78	2.51	3.06	3.82	4.50	4.21
11/12/08	0.10	0.18	0.75	1.03	1.19	1.60	2.37	3.00	3.75	4.44	4.17
11/13/08	0.08	0.22	0.93	1.16	1.24	1.62	2.43	3.07	3.84	4.57	4.34
11/14/08	0.06	0.15	0.90	1.14	1.22	1.53	2.33	2.94	3.72	4.43	4.22
11/17/08	0.06	0.12	0.81	1.08	1.22	1.53	2.32	2.92	3.68	4.42	4.20
11/18/08	0.10	0.12	0.76	1.05	1.15	1.44	2.22	2.79	3.53	4.32	4.14
11/19/08	0.09	0.07	0.66	0.97	1.09	1.36	2.08	2.64	3.38	4.17	3.96
11/20/08	0.05	0.03	0.52	0.87	1.00	1.20	1.94	2.43	3.10	3.87	3.64
11/21/08	0.03	0.02	0.45	0.83	1.09	1.35	2.02	2.53	3.20	3.93	3.70
11/24/08	0.01	0.13	0.54	0.95	1.31	1.53	2.24	2.71	3.35	4.01	3.78
11/25/08	0.04	0.10	0.53	0.95	1.15	1.41	2.06	2.49	3.11	3.85	3.63
11/26/08	0.02	0.05	0.48	0.93	1.09	1.38	2.01	2.43	2.99	3.77	3.54

Interesting that for a one month period people are willing to take .02% annualized yield for the government just to hold their money. Even for the three month at .05% yield seems to be low...I wonder how far out you have to go to even keep up with inflation...