Rate (%) Total Payment(for $100k Mortgage) Priced at 5.5% yield 3151,00074,700 3.5161,00079,500 4171,00084,500 4.5181,00089,500 5191,00094,700 5.5202,000100,000 6213,000105,500 6.5224,000111,100 7236,000116,700 7.5248,000122,5008 260,000128,300 8.5272,000134,400 9284,000140,300 9.5296,000146,40010309,000152,600Growth Rate Year 1 Year 2 Year 3Year 4 Year 55%5% 5.25%5.8% 6.6% 7.610%10% 11%13% 16 ...

Year 6% PV 4.5% PV2002 5,5846,438 20035,9196,729 20046,274 7,032 20056,6517,348 20067,050 7,679 20077,473 8,025 20087,9218,3862009 8,396 8,763 20108,900 9,157 20119,434 9,5692012 10,000 10,000 Rate / % income30% 35% 40% 45% 50% 2% 676,000 789,000 902,000 1,015,0001,127,000 3% 592,000 691,000 790,000 889,000 988,000 4% 524,000 611,000 698,000 785,000 873,000 5% 465,000 543,000 621,000 699,000 ...

Whether a currency is weak or strong seriously affects buying power. Being Canadian, I have traveled the US when it took $1.50-1.60 to buy one US dollar. It keeps the cost of imports expensive. It helps export businesses and it helps tourism as people from countries with strong currencies see tremendous value in their vacations.Gold is not a currency, but it does act like a form of money, and ...

This is an analysis that I have been meaning to do for a while that simply looks at how mining a declining ore grade affects costs. This is a particularly important analysis for investors of gold stocks as my sense of the market is that the grades of gold being mined are declining faster than any other commodity, and additionally, replacement reserves for gold companies are grossly lower quality ...

Stockhouse is not user friendly. Properly formated write-up is at Makingsenseofmyworld.Some things you read stop you mid-step and send youre-evaluating what makes sense to you. Early I posted that I believe the average price on commodities would behigher than they have been. The evidence shows that companies were cannibalizing theirassets to reduce costs when commodities reached their all time lo ...