Thursday, September 18, 2008

Zero interest for a limited time

The yield on T Bills actually touched zero percent today.



This is consistent with institutions looking for any place to park money while things sort themselves out. Getting a return is probably a secondary issue. This is generally referred to as a flight to quality.

Graph from finance.yahoo.com. The current quote is here.

HT: My colleague Bart.
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