“Recent amendments to our senior preferred stock purchase agreement with Treasury impose additional risk criteria on the loans we acquire,” the GSE said in a letter.

Hopefully the treasuries will adjust after the 1st quarter and prove we do not have the economy for a rate increase. 

The Treasury department has put out pages full of information about the qualifying requirements.

Most of the world is already trading commodities amongst themselves outside of the USD and there's talk that those same countries won't be renewing their Treasuries once they mature.  

@David Kerner also...you can ask the bank to tie your future interest rate to a current indicator like the us treasury...that was a common practice for us and it would at least give the borrower the ability to track their future rate...

I know the rate has something to do with the 10 year treasury or something but they will send you the rate daily and the points required. 

The treasury dept and IRS just released the final set of regulations for the popular 100% bonus depreciation schedule.

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Yield maintenance is a prepayment penalty that is even more expensive when the treasury yield decreases but can be less expensive when the treasury yield increases.

@Ben ZelenkaIf you are talking large amounts of cash then rolling over short term treasuries, I think, is the best bet.