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Sceptic001 wrote: »In a similar vein, when your savings rate falls from 2.5% to 2%, your bank would call that a 2% cut, whereas your loss of interest is actually 80%.

Lies, damned lies, and statistics
haha....seriously....
what are you talking about?
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no, they would call that a 0.5% cut, whereas your loss of interest is 20%0
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purrcintidges are seriuzbizness!0
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have they stopped teaching basic arithmetic at school now?
fj0 -
well, now we've all mastered percentages, perhaps we can go on to bond duration.0
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grey_gym_sock wrote: »well, now we've all mastered percentages, perhaps we can go on to bond duration.
just over 2 hours normally, unless its the directors cut0
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