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...TIPS would rise to $103,000 by the end of 1997, and the annual interest payment would amount to $3,552. The note would rise to more than $106,000 in value at the end of 1998 and pay about $3,655 in interest. The trade-off is a lower coupon: last week's paper carried an initial interest rate of 3.45%, compared with 6.6% for a similar non-inflation-adjusted Treasury note...
TIPS definitely make sense for the government. The new issues could eventually lower the Treasury's cost of borrowing by billions. No wonder plans call for a second auction in April that might offer TIPS in a variety of maturities so you can ward off inflation for as many years as you like...
Ebonic fever is the term that I use to describe the current national obsession with the American dialect spoken mostly by the black lower-class community. The dialect has been identified and studied for years, but only in small academic circles. Only since the recent decision by the Oakland, Calif. school board to officially recognize Ebonics as a second language has the public at large cared about it, or even bothered to listen to the academics. Since then, Ebonics has made the front page of every major newspaper across the country, has been the main subject on every major news...
Tuition, which is the largest single source of income in the Faculty's budget, "cannot continue to rise even at the lower rates of the recent past," he warned...
Research conducted in four Lamont bathrooms--two men's and two women's--reveals that the lower level facilities do not boast the same abundance of social commentary...